Sentence examples for dissident past from inspiring English sources

Madison has its own dissident past, though.

He is hospitable and circumspect, a result, his translator Gerald Turner speculates, of the necessary paranoia of a dissident past.

But it also traded on a degree of local apathy that was untypical of the region's mostly dissident past.

He will take over the mantle of Central Europe's most recognisable president once the Czechs' ailing head of state, Vaclav Havel, retires in January.Mr Havel's admirable dissident past and literary distinction gave him special status in western capitals.

Zhou Qing, who wrote a book published this year on the dangers of food sold in China, says officials have tried to curb its circulation (his dissident past may not have endeared him to them either).

In the past, dissident extremists opposed to the peace process have forced taxi drivers to transport bombs, but it is understood that this is the first time a public transport worker has been targeted.

And Ms. Merkel, a former East German, is known for having sought out visits with Chinese dissidents in the past, both in China and in Germany.

Russian media proprietors are not comparable to the heroic dissidents of the past, who used their television channels ruthlessly to fight their political battles.

It was a startling assertion for the leader of a communist country, where crackdowns on dissidents in the past had drawn sharp Vatican criticism.

Stealth Falcon, in turn, had targeted other UAE dissidents in the past who were later imprisoned or convicted in absentia, Marczak adds.

Late last December, the two men were once again found guilty — though not before Khodorkovsky gave an eloquent speech that cemented his role as the modern heir to the great Russian dissidents of the past.