In fact, it appeared likely that Justice O'Connor had originally voted the other way in this case, and that Justice John Paul Stevens had originally been in line to write the majority opinion instead of the dissenting opinion he filed today.
A report that the studios hoped would provide the consensus necessary for antipiracy legislation instead revealed a host of dissenting opinions.
A long-awaited report that the studios hoped would provide the consensus necessary for anti-piracy legislation -- and that members of Congress hoped would jump-start the stalled rollout of digital television -- instead disclosed a host of dissenting opinions.
In the discourse of dissenting community, community that serves a function is simply another name for totalitarianism; instead, community must merely be a fact of coexistence.
Instead the paternalist thesis shifted focus to the very different language of "Christian stewardship," which emerged from the notably modern precincts of dissenting Protestantism.
20 Without the ability to exception report, practices could be penalised for respecting the wishes of dissenting patients, particularly in localities where rates of dissent are high.
Vladislav Surkov, Putin's "grey cardinal", chose to infiltrate the internet instead of silencing the dissenting voices – although the latter is an increasingly popular tactic, as the post-election website blockades show.
Chinese officials may find that Confucianism, properly understood, will foster, instead of inhibit, dissent among its citizens.
Instead of silencing dissent, it has given it new voice, and momentum.
Until Europe consistently respects its own guarantees of free expression, and actively promotes tolerance instead of clumsily stifling dissent, its brave rhetoric will ring disappointingly false.
