Sentence examples for social dissent from inspiring English sources

"They've realized that the Internet could be used as a tool for social dissent," El Mouhtarem said.

There's very little risk of any kind represented: not much social dissent, not much psychological turmoil, not much sex.

These proxy servers play a central role in the global struggle to outsmart censors working to protect undemocratic regimes from political and social dissent.

The first notable example of the rock musical was Hair (1967), which found its social dissent in a combination of loud music, stroboscopic lighting, youthful irreverence, and nudity.

Gober is known for sculptures of hairy legs protruding from walls, bizarrely shaped sinks, sneakily altered newspapers, and other deft grotesqueries, with nuances of homoeroticism and social dissent.

Art Ken Johnson Now that we have the Internet, Twitter and other newfangled means of instantaneous communication, the idea of promoting social dissent and political action by means of prints on paper seems quaint.

Although it has been less public than either fiscal or social conservative dissent, the course of events in Iraq has exacerbated fissures between traditional foreign policy "realists" and their antagonists in the small, influential faction that provided the primary impetus for the Iraq War.

More essential notions were conveniently ignored such as the precepts of social justice, political dissent, and the moral duty for intellectuals to criticise the ruler".

It may be that in the nineteen-sixties, when television was still muzzling itself, from fear of provoking advertiser displeasure or F.C.C. reaction, books were a more accessible form for social criticism and dissent.

Her essays, originally published in journals like the New Yorker, the Nation, Dissent, Social Text, the New York Times, and the Village Voice, were collected in Beginning to See the Light (1981); No More Nice Girls (1992); and Don't Think - Smile! Notes on a Decade of Denial (1999).

But in the past few years, those who oppose the law have found an outlet for their dissent: social media.