Sentence examples for popular dissent from inspiring English sources

Tactically, Russia is exploiting the popular dissent against the EU – fuelled by both immigration and austerity.

The last show of popular dissent erupted two years ago when protesters rioted over energy prices.

So far, Arab governments have contained popular dissent largely by banning demonstrations.

Activists fear the legal clampdown will be used to further stifle popular dissent against military rule.

Years of authoritarian rule meant that political and social institutions allowing the peaceful articulation of popular dissent were systematically suppressed.

Analysts doubt that the established parties' new leaders are strong enough to ride a wave of popular dissent.

By this time labour disturbances were about to break out throughout the region, a consequence of the Great Depression and the lack of means for democratic dissent; popular demands for development and decolonization were spreading from Jamaica to Trinidad.

Buffeted by party dissent, renewed popular protest and the Asian financial crisis, the ruling elite that had absorbed Kim Young-saw saw its candidate narrowly defeated in December 1997 by Kim Dae-jung, who gained 40.2% – half a percentage point more than his rival.

"It's not popular to dissent".

As had been the case under colonialism, there was no room for popular participation or dissent.

However, "On Liberty" and "The Subjection of Women" capture the enduring power of custom to blunt critical thinking and to inspire a popular hostility to dissent.