Sentence examples for dissident from from inspiring English sources

Polls show that the country's most popular politician is Elisa Carrio, a dissident from the Radicals.

"America at the Crossroads" is not quite a recantation, because Fukuyama was quickly a dissident from the war on terror.

A couple of years earlier, he had met a man named Xu Wenli, a former railway electrician and a veteran dissident from the Democracy Wall period.

No matter where the various groups are based, he says, every dissident from Krakow to Kiev is virtually connected thanks to social media.

For Kundera, like Cioran or Nabokov, was a dissident from the mass culture of the East who was equally disillusioned by the mass culture of the West.

Officials in Bahrain have prevented the wife and infant son of a London-based dissident from leaving the country to join him.

Bashar al-Assad's uncle Rifʿat played the role of regime insider-turned-dissident from his exile in London, few Syrians respected the man whom many held responsible for having directed the brutal suppression of the uprising in Hamah some 30 years earlier.

Likewise, Soviet dissidents from Andrei Sakharov to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn were teetotalers.

And he introduced a few dissidents from Cuba, Belarus, North Korea and Iran.

China has often released well-known political dissidents from jail shortly before meetings with American officials.

Chinese security agents have disappeared dissidents from the city's streets.