Few Nigerians would openly contest this carefully created image of adulation, especially in this minutely policed town, where any conversation might be monitored, where plainclothes agents haunt every hotel and restaurant, and where crack troops are never more than a moment's call away.
Please note that these webs of new definitions of the situation, established by people who had some experience living in truth and by those who were significantly more cautious, meant that there was a capacity to openly contest alternative means of transformation.
Maybe it means that we can openly contest a construction of Jewish identity based on supporting the obstruction of Palestinian freedom, with a Jewish counter-narrative of universal human liberation.
It was believed that Woodruff had aided the students in their efforts after he openly contested the officiating of the football contest.
Through blogs, websites, magazines, fanzines, panels and conferences activists are raising their voices, singers give concerts to honour women who have been victims of killings, writers and poets condemn the violence openly and contest it with their words.
It is for the individual members of the University community, not for the University as an institution, to make those judgments for themselves, and to act on those judgments not by seeking to suppress speech, but by openly and vigorously contesting the ideas that they oppose.
The Purdue policy states, "It is for the individual members of the University community, not for the University as an institution, to make those judgments for themselves, and to act on those judgments not by seeking to suppress speech, but by openly and vigorously contesting the ideas that they oppose".
I have a very clear, long-held view on this: that "no platforming" unpopular views is counterproductive, discourages debate and the due dissection of error, and pushes views one would like to contest openly underground, where they may well flourish better than if exposed to the clear light of argument (which is one of the things that universities are for).
It places responsibility in the hands of the campus community (rather than administrators) to "openly and vigorously" contest opposing views within the mission to educate.
The Muslim Brotherhood is a powerful force in Egypt, even if it is not allowed to contest elections openly.
And even small schemes, if they multiply across the country, can add up to a culture change.David Miliband, the slight favourite to win the Labour Party's ongoing leadership contest, openly mourns the last government's failure to trust people more.
