Sentence examples for greater dissent from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 (Bloomberg News) — Two regional Federal Reserve banks favored an increase in the discount rate before the policy meeting on Aug. 8, a sign of greater dissent over current monetary policy than had previously been disclosed.

It is probably as much a tribute to the 86-year-old monarch as to the institution she represents that the budget-busting jubilee celebrations have not provoked greater dissent.

Popular activists who might be capable of stirring greater dissent are languishing in jail.But although King Gyanendra is fortunate in the weakness of his enemies, they are growing in number and in determination.

In May, gun battles broke out in the Radfan mountainous region during a demonstration by locals against the deployment of military units in the area.Pressured presidentThe conflict in the south has been taken to a new level by the government clampdown on the press, which has already proved counterproductive, fomenting greater dissent.

THE GREAT DISSENT: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind — and Changed the History of Free Speech in America, by Thomas Healy.

Holmes's enduring "shouting fire" analogy has been used as an argument against freedom of speech as frequently and effectively as his great dissent has been used in favor of free speech.

Are the banned weapons significantly "like" the military ones that even Heller admitted, grumpily, and under the pressure of Justice John Paul Stevens's great dissent, were subject to the people's will, the court asked?

In "The Great Dissent," Thomas Healy, a professor of law at Seton Hall Law School, tells the remarkable story of how this transforming dissent, in Abrams v. United States, came to be written — how Holmes was persuaded to change his mind about the meaning and reach of our most fundamental safeguard.

Healy is closer to the mark when, toward the end of his riveting book, he summarizes the great dissent as having "incorporated nearly all the major themes of his life — his belief in the supremacy of experience over logic, his strange combination of confidence and doubt, his commitment to Darwinism,... his taste for battle.

His most famous and influential analogy was central to another free-speech decision: just months before he wrote his great dissent, he affirmed the convictions of antiwar propagandists for distributing leaflets challenging the constitutionality of the draft and urging draft-age men to "assert your rights".

In Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, MSNBC reporter Irin Carmon and recent law graduate Shana Knizhnik trace some of the justice's greatest dissenting moments -- both from on the bench and off -- and what they mean in the larger scheme of Ginsburg's quest for "equal citizenship stature" for everyone under the law. .