Sentence examples for position of dissent from inspiring English sources

Describing the attacks on him after his Iraq visit, Penn wrote that he "experienced first hand the repressive condition of public debate in our country...I was beginning to feel the price paid by a citizen exercising a position of dissent".

Unlike most of his fellow citizens he was multilingual and travelled around the world from a young age, and while he never crossed to a position of dissent – by speaking out about human rights abuses or befriending defectors – a North Korea with him in the power structure could have looked remarkably different.

Shams believes that this kind of gesture and the NUS decision last month to lobby alongside Cage, the militant Islamic prisoners pressure group, undermines the position of dissenting Muslims.

Given the unfortunate framing of a position of academic dissent against a wholesale denial of India's existence in history books as a "religious war," I have to ask some specific questions.

The position of our dissenting colleague is made all the more difficult because the First Congress made the Copy- right Act of 1790 applicable to subsisting copyrights arising under the copyright laws of the several states.

O'Higgins notes that this might be the position of any dissenting minister.

For his part, Havel moved to a country house that he and Olga called Hrádecek (the Little Castle), and he veered increasingly toward a position of full-time dissent.

As one who has never agreed with the Miranda case but nonetheless felt bound by it, * I now find myself in the uncomfortable position of having to dissent from a holding which actually serves to curtail the impact of that decision.

Young pumps up his follower count and book sales by mimicking other Instagram poets, while also savvily positioning himself as a righteous voice of dissent.

30 In defence of the Economist, the letters page shows a small but increasing volume of dissent to its ageist positions.

The Turkish president is increasingly intolerant of dissent, however, which has created a paradoxical position with regards to the peace talks.