dissident

Example Sentences

• "Near-synonym: dissonant"
• "Verilye yf all thynges that euel and vitiouſs maners haue caused to ſeme inconueniente and noughte ſhould be refuſed, as thinges vnmete and reprochefull, then we muſt among Chriſten people wynke at the moſte parte of al thoſe thinges, whych Chriſt taught vs, and ſo ſtreitly forbad them to be winked at, yat thoſe thinges alſo whiche he whiſpered in ye eares of his diſciples he commaunded to be proclaimed in open houſes. And yet ye moſt parte of them is more diſſident from the maners of the worlde nowe a dayes, then my communication was."
• "On flattening either the higher or lower reed separately, by partially pushing in either one of the pulls, dissident beats instantly arose, which would be made to disappear by partially pushing in the other reed."
• "In this chapter we look at the question of convergence in corporate governance by evaluating dissident proxy proposals in Canada. […] Dissident proxy initiatives are a direct challenge to corporate management and the board. They contain assertions of filers' views of what constitutes legitimate modes of conduct for the corporation, and can be seen as legitimacy contests between filers and corporate management (Bates and Hennessy, 2010). Dissident, or unsolicited, proposals are published along with those management is required to file annually, […]"
• "The US State Department has removed the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, known by the acronym the FARC, from its terrorism blacklist, and listed two dissident groups led by former FARC militants."
• "This tragic event, coupled with a police operation on the Drumcree site July 15-17, 1998 - which revealed a small cache of explosives and arms and resulted in arrests of dissident loyalists effectively ended the standoff."