But even as small planes flew over crowded beaches — towing banners with the words "Forza Silvio, Forza Italia" (Go Silvio, Go Italy), to mark dissent with what Mr. Berlusconi's supporters believe to be a politically motivated conviction — critics were mounting a counteroffensive.
The truly valuable question we should ask as a result of the comparison between our generation of timid dissent and the often violent confrontations between labor and management that marked the dissent from 1900 up until the start of the Second World War is this: Why isn't the Left the fierce crucible of anger and resistance it was in the 1920s, 1930s, even the 1960s?
Australia's recent Test-series win over South Africa was marked by dissent, fines, sledging, accusations of excessive appealing and a concerted hatchet job on the opposition captain Graeme Smith.
Mr. Pitofsky's partial dissent marked the first time he had dissented in his five years as chairman.
It will take both people on the inside continuing to agitate and people leaving the church and marking their dissent to facilitate the necessary equality overhaul of Mormonism.
The statement otherwise showed a papacy marked more by dissent than action, indicating that four months after a sexual abuse scandal began shaking the church and calling into question the behavior of Benedict himself, the Vatican is still furiously on the defensive.
Monday's dissent marked the first time since the early 1990s that two sitting Supreme Court justices have openly questioned the legality of capital punishment.
Religious Dissent marked Johnson from the beginning of his life, as two of his mother's relatives were prominent Baptist ministers and his father was a deacon.
The turning-points were usually marked by political crisis: dissent on the streets, leadership struggles, or both.
Mr Nasheed's detractors allege that, in response, he acquired some of the intolerance of dissent that marked the Gayoom era.
