Sentence examples for time dissent from inspiring English sources

The Republicans, deeply divided on the issue of abortion, will display no prime time dissent; abortion-rights forces, who had enough votes in the platform committee to take a minority plank to the floor, decided to pass up that chance in the name of unity.

Illiterate, visionary, charismatic, she took part in the swirl of "enthusiastick" sects that emerged at the time, dissenting from the Anglican Church and expecting the Apocalypse; in fact, the name Shakers was given originally to a subset of the people we know as Friends, the Quakers.

For his part, Havel moved to a country house that he and Olga called Hrádecek (the Little Castle), and he veered increasingly toward a position of full-time dissent.

Mr. Brumberg's writing on Eastern European subjects appeared in The New York Times, Dissent, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, The Nation and elsewhere.

The test of a leader's commitment to democracy is not in peaceful and agreeable times but in times of dissent and disagreement.

Raisky Dvor has walls covered in sayings from Orwell that not that long ago could have cost a person prison time -- dissent as décor.

The Brotherhood has a hard time accepting dissent.

Málaga's Juankar was shown a straight red card in stoppage time for dissent.

It's a way of saying this is no time for dissent," Smilde said.

For a long time now, dissent has been taking hold among younger people who are unwilling to forgo freedoms, and promises of freedom, made within living memory.

Rehnquist arrived at the court just in time to dissent from Roe v. Wade, the landmark 7-2 recognizinggnizing a right to abortion.