Sentence examples for state of dissent from inspiring English sources

What does Monday's decision by the Crown Prosecution Service to drop charges against almost all the protesters – many from UK Uncut – who occupied Fortnum and Mason on the day of the TUC march in March tell us about the state of dissent in the UK today?

These claims led a broader independent community of scientists and researchers to come together as they felt compelled to develop a document that offered a balanced account of the current state of dissent in this field, based on published evidence in the scientific literature, for both the interested public and the wider science community.

General Sisi's candidacy would further deepen the divisions between the many Egyptians who believe a firm hand is needed to steer the country, and Islamists bearing the brunt of state suppression of dissent.

In 2011, when he was prime minister of Russia and facing massive street protests, Putin accused the then secretary of state of fomenting dissent.

Though not necessarily unique to State, the shutdown of dissent and logic in the face of a senior person's wishes drives far too many decisions at State.

Mr. Yu is one of several prominent Chinese intellectuals to have chosen a path of self-exile because of the hardening of the state against voices of dissent.

The decision by some of the states to dissent complicates, and could ultimately delay, the implementation of the proposed settlement decree.

China's eclectic mix of free-market principles, spoon-fed state enterprises and intolerance of dissent may be contradictory, but it seems to have paid dividends.

But the Yemeni state has been relatively tolerant of dissent.

Of course, in rural Florida agriculture was king, and so the Klan's reign of terror always served two purposes -- to maintain white supremacy, and to suppress any hint of dissent in the state's fields and groves: Although Florida Klansmen continued to terrorize African Americans, they expanded their targets to include union organizers, particularly in the citrus belt from Orlando to Tampa.

Mr. Woodward's portrait of the secretary of state as dissenting from the hawks in the Bush war cabinet seemed to confirm what many believed inevitable, that Mr. Powell will not remain as secretary in a second Bush administration.