Sentence examples for slight dissent from inspiring English sources

In 1611, at the request of Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, the professors at the Collegio Romano confirmed Galileo's telescopic observations, with a slight dissent from Father Clavius, who felt that the moon's surface was probably not uneven.

He is monstrous in his self-vaunting, he cannot brook the slightest dissent, he is intolerably overbearing.

Yet nobody whispered the slightest dissent before the King George last season, at which stage he had precisely the same record over the previous seven months: 14 rides, no winners.

To ensure that not the slightest whiff of dissent could exist, institutions and even state bodies were never allowed to grow.

Mugabe and his Zanu-PF thugs, terrified of losing their empire, unleashed a carefully targeted anarchy at anyone who showed the slightest sign of dissent.

That the police can instigate this policy without the slightest murmur of dissent, without debate in parliament, without local MPs raising the mildest concern, is a very worrying sign indeed.

Mr Grodnikov's alleged murder comes as Lukashenko's hardline regime twists a tourniquet on the slightest sign of dissent in the run up to presidential elections on March 19.

And any attempt to organise even the slightest show of dissent is being shut down.

In fact, the term is used to apply to any outlet that harbors even the slightest expression of dissent.

Since Prayuth, 61, took power in a military coup in 2014, he has shuttered outspoken media and detained activists for the slightest acts of dissent.

Under Prayut, 61, the junta has detained activists for the slightest acts of dissent, including raising three-fingered "Hunger Games" salutes, reading out loud from the anti-authoritarian novel "1984," and in the case of one lunchtime gathering, "eating sandwiches with political intent".