Sentence examples for statement of dissent from inspiring English sources

It is no longer a statement of dissent.

At the State Department, it triggered a revolt of career diplomats, some thousand of whom signed an official statement of dissent arguing that the policy would do more harm than good.

His statement of dissent was headed with a quote from Kafka's The Trial; "[I]t is an essential part of the justice dispensed here that you should be condemned not only in innocence but also in ignorance".

3 32 p.m. | Updated Justice Antonin Scalia made a foray into the realm of political combat on Monday, citing President Obama's recent decision to stop enforcement of deportation against some illegal immigrants in a biting statement of dissent (a summary of which can be found here) from his colleagues who struck down parts of Arizona's immigration law.

General Ashfaq Kayani, then Pakistan's Army chief, issued a rare public statement of dissent about C.I.A. operations: "It is highly regrettable that a jirga of peaceful citizens, including elders of the area, was carelessly and callously targeted with complete disregard to human life".

In concert with that, the projections indicate, the National Front, the far-rightist, anti-immigrant party that electrified presidential elections in April and May, will suffer a remarkable setback, confirming perhaps that its followers see it more as a statement of dissent built around the personality of its leader rather than as a nuts-and-bolts party machine capable of running the country.

Career diplomats are signing statements of dissent or leaving the State Department, while key posts remain unfilled.

The students stood up and made individual statements of dissent.

Those words were written on a wall in Deraa in southern Syria by a group of teenagers, a bold statement of protest in a country that never saw dissent.

His last statement stirred a rumble of dissent in the opposition's ranks and turned Mr. Tsvangirai's face into a stony mask.

This type of dissent constitutes a statement by the judge as an individual: 'Here I draw the line.' " THE two original dissenters in the Roe v. Wade abortion ruling, William H. Rehnquist and Byron R. White, never accepted that case as valid precedent.