Sentence examples for fierce dissent from inspiring English sources
The leniency the court gave the president in making recess appointments, despite its finding in the NLRB case, prompted a fierce dissent led by Justice Antonin Scalia, which argued for a far more narrow reading of the recess clause that would only have rendered it operative in exceptional circumstances.
In a fierce dissent, Francis Murphy argued that the reversal was absurd: "Knowledge of a comprehensive law library is unnecessary for officers of the law to know that the right to murder individuals in the course of their duties is unrecognized in this nation".
Scalia issued a fierce dissent.
Justice Antonin Scalia, revered by Republicans as a model judge, wrote a fierce dissent joined by Justices William Rehnquist and Clarence Thomas.
If Stevens is shrewd in the majority, he is fierce in dissent.
But there were fierce voices of dissent at the time — from the nationalist politician Romesh Chandra Dutt and from the first Indian British M.P., Dadabhai Naoroji, and also from Western journalists like Vaughan Nash, of the Manchester Guardian.
He embarked on the fierce suppression of political dissent, and his forces killed hundreds of pro-Morsi protesters.Nevertheless, Mr Sisi plans to issue decrees criminalising insults to Egypt's two "revolutions"—the one that overthrew Mr Mubarak in 2011 and the one that brought Mr Sisi to power in 2013.
With one club representing the secret police, and one representing the voice of dissent, a fierce rivalry was inevitable.
It emerged that the judging panel, chaired by Geordie Greig, editorial director of The Independent, The Independent on Sunday and the London Evening Standard, was locked in a "fierce debate and quite bitter dissent to find the winner".
The judging panel was locked in a "fierce debate and quite bitter dissent" and eventually used a vote to decide on the winner.
Dissent has often been fiercer in its critique of the left than other leftist publications like The Nation, a weekly published since 1865.
