dissident in English

adjective
1
in opposition to official policy.
there is only one explicitly dissident voice to be heard
noun
1
a person who opposes official policy, especially that of an authoritarian state.
a dissident who had been jailed by a military regime

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1. Dissident thought is valuable just because it is dissident.

2. One dissident against Rome?

3. Anomurous Chuck of a dissident critic

4. He was exiled as a dissident.

5. That was the dissident movement in Poland.

6. Nobel Peace Prize awarded to China dissident Liu Xiaobo

7. There were many dissident elements in the population.

8. Hospital was supposed to serve and unite Kaznia's dissident ethnic faction.

9. It almost makes you want to become a political dissident .

10. He also wrote for the dissident bulletin To Quoc (Fatherland).

11. You're the Wadiyan dissident who was standing up to that asshole Aladeen.

12. She was a dissident during the communist rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu.

13. The Panel also interviewed refugees who had declined such advances by dissident supporters.

14. Dissident republicans tried to bomb an army barracks at Ballykelly, Co Londonderry, last week.

15. But he was too decent a dissident to wear it on his sleeves .

16. The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) was eventually formed to represent dissident causes.

17. The dissident elements are undoubtedly opposed to the King and in favour of republic.

18. Among the Political tricks were pretended virtue abidance, dissident suppression , seducing and autobiography forging.

19. Antagonistic: See: adverse , antipathetic , averse , contradictory , different , discordant , disinclined , dissident , hostile , incompatible , inimical , litigious

20. A dissident, recently released from detention, gave a press conference in the capital today.

21. Poussy Achkar Raymond Assayan Sami Khoueiry the pro Phalangist Captain Samir el Achkar, leader of the dissident Lebanese

22. Antonyms for Acquiescing include resistant, defiant, dissident, unwilling, opposed, opposing, repellent, insubordinate, resistive and unyielding

23. Within weeks, Georgia declared independence on 9 April 1991, under former Soviet dissident Zviad Gamsakhurdia.

24. On 21 June 1919, a dissident faction of the anarchists founded the Brazilian Communist Party.

25. The police in Northern Ireland knew that dissident republicans posed a threat, and they were concerned.

26. Using targeted psychological attacks the Stasi tried to deprive a dissident of any chance of a "hostile action".

27. The most famous dissident in that Central American country has fled and is seeking political asylum.

28. One dissident had his door padlocked and was roughed up after a friend stopped by to visit.

29. Nguyen Xuan Tu, aka Ha Sy Phu, 68, is a biology researcher and one of Vietnam’s most respected dissident writers.

30. Dissident leaders demanded free elections and economic reform, but within the context of a "human democratic socialism".

31. Ricardo Enrique Silva is a Cuban doctor and dissident who was imprisoned during the Black Spring in 2003.

32. Indeed, he had the advantage of scripting it as the father of the Soviet H-bomb, dissident and a political prisoner.

33. Stalin's Lysenkoism starved millions when the ideologically correct wheat failed to grow and anyone who pointed this out was sent to dissident prison.

34. From a Korean dissident to a nuclear scientist, via Vaclav Havel, we look at some of the world's most famous political prisoners.

35. Dissident radicals of all sorts were assumed to bear loyalty to alien ideologies, and deportation became the fate of many.

36. For example, in March, dissident Protestant Pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh was sentenced to 11 years in prison on a charge of “undermining national unity.”

37. Cajolery is as vital a quality as conviction, and some Tories wonder whether Thatcher has the skills necessary to keep dissident ministers in line.

38. In the totalitarian state, there is no room for dissidence: the dissident is the source of "disorder, " and must be imprisoned, tortured, or killed.

39. They include a nonagenarian war-hero, Vo Nguyen Giap, a dissident monk, Thich Quang Do, and a slew of leading scientists and environmental campaigners.

40. Azeri football manager calls for killing Armenian women Azeri police beat, detain demonstrators after opposition's Azeri Dissident, Snatched in Tbilisi, Turns Up in Baku

41. Cuban doctors treating a political dissident who's on hunger strike say he is in danger of dying despite their efforts to keep him alive.

42. Andrei Sakharov, Russia’s most famous dissident and nuclear scientist, returned from his forced exile in Gorky and was elected to the first Soviet parliament.

43. Earlier in the day, U. S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with the son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and urged the release of a jailed political dissident.

44. Another man, with the initials N.A., was sentenced to death for being a member of the Mojahedin-e Khalq Organization (MKO), a dissident group largely operating from exile.

45. Dissident shareholders forced a proposal to sack Mr Breuer - and by extention, Mr Seifert - on to the agenda of Deutsche B?rse's annual meeting on May

46. Earlier this month, a dissident Buddhist monk, Thich Quang Do, said that strip mining will destroy the way of life of the region's ethnic minorities.

47. Li is not a political dissident, making it acceptable for the Chinese media to report on the issue. but it may also signal that forces are opposing Mr.

48. In November, police pressured a landlord to evict dissident singer Nguyen Do Mai Khoi after she publicly protested against the US president during his visit to Hanoi.

49. But it obtained its worst result at the 1999 European Parliament election, winning 12.7% of the votes, less than the dissident Rally for France of Charles Pasqua.

50. the Communist regime had officially collapsed eight months earlier, when Vaclav Havel, the longtime dissident, was elected president. And now the Rolling Stones had come to Prague.