Example sentences for: dissenters

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  • A small school of dissenters also emerges: John Podhoretz writes in the Weekly Standard , "Omaha Beach was a site of tragedy and triumph, and it was triumph that gave meaning to the tragedy.

  • In Gates' essay, those who would favor a stand of principle over the ties of blut and boden (or even business)--whistle-blowers, antiwar dissenters, anyone who says "I often place my duty to society above my duty to my company"--are characterized as "William Godwin types all, letting their own dear mothers burn to a crisp with nary a second thought while they grandly escort some silk-bedizened cleric to safety."

  • The media were soon placed under state control, promised elections were never held, and Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDRs) were established to keep tabs on dissenters.

  • A few carp about the film's cloying, overt patriotism--and the avoidance of the politics and protests that surrounded the war--with the most vocal dissenters saying it "restart[s] the John Wayne-ing of Vietnam" (Michael Atkinson, the Village Voice ). For most, though, the stories, told by some 20 captured airmen, speak eloquently and powerfully.

  • Dissenters assail the soap-opera plot: "[H]istorical information ...


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