Thesaurus / dissent
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So, we instituted something we call “farming for dissent,” where on these big decisions everybody has to write down in public in a shared document, how they feel about the idea and their judgment about it.
WHAT IF YOUR COMPANY HAD NO RULES? (BONUS EPISODE)MARIA KONNIKOVASEPTEMBER 12, 2020FREAKONOMICSThe law, aimed at silencing dissent, shattered the notion that Hong Kong’s legislature is independent from Beijing.
HONG KONG’S CITYWIDE COVID-19 TESTING HAS BECOME A BAROMETER OF PUBLIC TRUSTEAMONBARRETTSEPTEMBER 9, 2020FORTUNEHe said Ikhrata was trying to remove a voice of dissent on the SANDAG board.
ONE RACE COULD MAKE OR BREAK PLANS TO OVERHAUL THE REGION’S TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMJESSE MARXAUGUST 13, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOGiven Lukashenko’s control over the system — he won’t allow independent election observers — it remains unlikely that Tikhanovskaya will win outright, but the past couple of weeks have fueled the fire of a growing dissent.
COULD SHE UPSET BELARUS’ DICTATOR?PALLABI MUNSIAUGUST 5, 2020OZYJustice Alito filed a separate dissent, joined by Justice Thomas.
THE SUPREME COURT DECISION TO GRANT PROTECTIONS TO LGBT WORKERS IS AN IMPORTANT EXPANSION OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACTLGBTQ-EDITORJUNE 18, 2020NO STRAIGHT NEWSWhat justifies the disruption requires a dissent from the civil power, as a power not of God.
THE ORDINANCE OF COVENANTINGJOHN CUNNINGHAMThe first reading was carried without a division, the Duke of Richmond being the only peer who expressed dissent.
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN THREE VOLUMES, VOL.III.E. FARR AND E. H. NOLANIt requires more power and strength of mind and decision of character to dissent from the Church of the State than to support it.
EAST ANGLIAJ. EWING RITCHIEFor from these three Chapels came not only the impulse of the spiritual life of Llanyglo, but its local politics of dissent also.
MUSHROOM TOWNOLIVER ONIONSHe was re-nominated the next year without dissent or opposition, but declined a re-election on account of ill health.
THE BAY STATE MONTHLY, VOL. II, NO. 6, MARCH, 1885VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO DISSENT
- abnegation
- ban
- choice
- cold shoulder
- declension
- declination
- defiance
- disallowance
- disapproval
- disavowal
- disclaimer
- discountenancing
- disfavor
- dissent
- enjoinment
- exclusion
- forbidding
- interdiction
- knockback
- negation
- nix
- no
- nonacceptance
- noncompliance
- nonconsent
- option
- pass
- prohibition
- proscription
- rebuff
- refutation
- regrets
- rejection
- renouncement
- renunciation
- repudiation
- repulse
- repulsion
- reversal
- thumbs-down
- turndown
- veto
- withholding
- writ
- beg off
- brush off
- decline
- demur
- desist
- disaccord
- disallow
- disapprove
- dispense with
- dissent
- dodge
- evade
- give thumbs down to
- hold back
- hold off
- hold out
- ignore
- make excuses
- nix
- not budge
- not budget
- not buy
- not care to
- pass up
- protest
- rebuff
- refuse to receive
- regret
- reject
- repel
- reprobate
- repudiate
- send off
- send regrets
- set aside
- shun
- spurn
- turn away
- turn deaf ear to
- turn down
- turn from
- turn one's back on
- withdraw
- withhold
- affray
- altercation
- animosity
- argument
- bickering
- blowup
- brawl
- clash
- combat
- competition
- conflict
- contention
- contest
- controversy
- difference
- disagreement
- discord
- dispute
- dissension
- dissent
- dissidence
- disunity
- emulation
- faction
- factionalism
- fighting
- friction
- fuss
- hassle
- quarrel
- rivalry
- spat
- squabble
- squabbling
- static
- striving
- tug of war
- variance
- warfare
- words
- wrangle
- wrangling
- affray
- altercation
- animosity
- argument
- bickering
- blowup
- brawl
- clash
- combat
- competition
- conflict
- contention
- contest
- controversy
- difference
- disagreement
- discord
- dispute
- dissension
- dissent
- dissidence
- disunity
- emulation
- faction
- factionalism
- fighting
- friction
- fuss
- hassle
- quarrel
- rivalry
- spat
- squabble
- squabbling
- static
- striving
- tug of war
- variance
- warfare
- words
- wrangle
- wrangling
- abnegation
- abstaining
- adjuration
- brush-off
- cold shoulder
- contradiction
- controversion
- declination
- disaffirmance
- disaffirmation
- disallowance
- disapproval
- disavowal
- disclaimer
- dismissing
- disproof
- dissent
- forswearing
- gainsaying
- nay
- negation
- negative
- nix
- nonacceptance
- noncommittal
- prohibition
- protestation
- rebuff
- rebuttal
- refraining
- refusing
- refutal
- refutation
- rejecting
- rejection
- renegement
- renouncement
- renunciation
- repudiating
- repudiation
- repulse
- retraction
- statement
- turndown
- veto
- abnegation
- ban
- choice
- cold shoulder
- declension
- declination
- defiance
- denial
- disallowance
- disapproval
- disavowal
- disclaimer
- discountenancing
- disfavor
- dissent
- enjoinment
- exclusion
- forbidding
- interdiction
- knockback
- negation
- nix
- no
- nonacceptance
- noncompliance
- nonconsent
- option
- pass
- prohibition
- proscription
- rebuff
- refutation
- regrets
- rejection
- renouncement
- renunciation
- repudiation
- repulse
- repulsion
- reversal
- thumbs-down
- veto
- withholding
- writ
- about-face
- argument
- change
- conflict
- contention
- deviation
- difference of opinion
- different strokes
- disaccord
- disagreement
- discord
- discrepancy
- dissension
- dissent
- dissidence
- disunity
- divergence
- diversity
- division
- flip-flop
- fluctuation
- incongruity
- inconsistency
- mid-course correction
- mutation
- separation
- severing
- strife
- sundering
- switch
- transmogrification
- unharmoniousness
- variation
- variety
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