Example sentences for: dissent

How can you use “dissent” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I don't know if you saw the article in Dissent in which Michael Tomasky maintained that "liberals" disagreed with your "broken windows" theory and that the policies of liberal mayors caused the increase in crime in America's cities between 1960 and 1990.

  • There are voices of dissent who think that Alan Greenspan is paying too much attention to Wall Street and that the continued rise in stock prices is entirely the product of the Fed's distribution of easy money.

  • Athens became so attached to this source of easy money that dissent soon grew among the member cities, and Sparta led the confederacy from Athens after the Peloponnesian War (413– 404 b.c. ). The Persians, sensing weakness in the ranks, launched another offensive, resulting in the Ae­gean coast cities coming under Persian control in 387 b.c.

  • It surprises me to see a Big Name economics journalist like Krugman following this trend, and, further, using it to discourage dissent within the profession.

  • The backspin: The United States and Canada have gained more cardinals, and to woo them, candidates for the papacy will have to be more sensitive to American Catholics' dissent from papal teachings on divorce, remarriage, and women in the priesthood.


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