dissidence

Example Sentences

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And in doing so he depicts a Russia that, despite internal dissidence and generational shifts in politics, is bound to repeat this scene again.

From New York Times • Mar. 10, 2023

“They write to all my paranoia and anti-establishment dissidence and conspiracy theories. So it’s been a lot of fun for me. A dream, really.”

From Washington Times • Feb. 19, 2023

The source at the Democratic Renovation Union, a group that grew from dissidence within the Sandinista movement, said Torres' family would make an announcement on his death later.

From Reuters • Feb. 12, 2022

“All three fed into one another as creativity involves dissidence and dissidence leads to revolution. This made all her books revolve around the need to remove the blindfolds placed around the mind.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 23, 2021

The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John