Sentence examples for important dissent from inspiring English sources

In 2011, as her first term closed, Justice Kagan filed an important dissent countering an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. that turned the meaning of the First Amendment upside down.

In their wide-ranging conversation, Goodwin discusses the advantages of forming an executive committee of strong-willed, forthright individuals who won't insulate a leader from uncomfortable but important dissent.

In the middle of that decade, a young Egyptian Islamist named Aboul-Ela Maadi broke from the Brotherhood and formed the Center Party, declaring its support for elections and the alternation of power and, as important, dissent and coalitions with non-Islamic parties.

But council speaker Viverito's close political loyalties to the Mayor, to whom she likely owes her position to, have also led her to quell important dissent around Bratton.

While the Court upheld a conviction a third time in Abrams v. United States, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote an important dissent which has gradually been absorbed as an American principle: he urged the court to treat freedom of speech as a fundamental right, which should rarely be restricted.

Her most important dissenting opinions came in two cases that will ultimately be seen as signature rulings of the Roberts court.

The central argument in "War's Heretics" represents in layperson's terms the views embodied in Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's important dissenting opinion in Abrams v. United States (1919).

An important dissenting tradition was represented by the European practitioners of ethology, who insisted from the 1920s that behaviour must be studied in a biological context.

Judge William Hastie, "He guided us through the legal wilderness of second-class citizenship... .. Writer thought of Houston when Clarence Thomas wrote his first important dissenting opinion after succeeding Thurgood Marshall on the Supreme Court.

However, this does not mean that there were not important dissenting voices.

While the vast bulk of our interviews are with climate scientists, as part of our commitment to impartiality it is important that dissenting voices are also heard.