Sentence examples for potential dissent from inspiring English sources

Amnesty says: "All potential dissent and opposition activities, including peaceful expressions of views via poems, songs, books, pamphlets, letters or the internet, have been targeted".

"I don't believe that Xi is totally hypocritical when he talks about reform," said Chen Min, a prominent opinion writer for Southern Weekend who was forced out of the newspaper in 2011 during a party-led crackdown on potential dissent.

He's taken steps, little by little, to insure potential dissent is silenced or put aside or cast away," Robert Malley, the vice-president for policy at the International Crisis Group and a former National Security Council staffer in the Obama Administration, told me.

To this, he adds that Tipu also had future territorial ambitions in Goa and wanted to rid himself of any potential dissent from the Christians within his domain.

In none of Mr. Bush's remarks has he directly addressed what advocates have called a pre-Olympic crackdown on dissent and potential protest.

Be it cause or effect, where governments are unable to meet public needs and provide essential services, the potential for dissent is high.

In recent months the U.A.E. has displayed a new vigilance about potential sources of dissent.

Paranoid, he puts together a team to intercept, unseal and read mail, searching for dissent, potential terrorism; an early French version of the NSA.

More than that, as the armed police patrolling in front of his house testify, he is feared as a potential magnet for dissent.

Unlike the political arena or the media, Islam is a potential font of dissent that, so far, they have been unable to monopolize.

In just days, the protests and the government's uncertain response have underlined the potential scale of dissent in Syria, the government's lack of a strategy in ending it, and the difficulty Mr. Assad faces in dismissing the demonstrations as religiously inspired unrest with foreign support.