Example sentences for: dissenting

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  • Moreover, the majority's contention that the subsidized speech in these cases is not government speech because the lawyers have a professional obligation to represent the interests of their clients founders on the reality that the doctors in Rust had a professional obligation to serve the interests of their patients, see 500 U. S., at 214 (Blackmun, J., dissenting) ("ethical responsibilities of the medical profession")- which at the time of Rust we had held to be highly relevant to the permissible scope of federal regulation, see Thornburgh v.

  • Not in the sedate and agreeable discussions on Washington Week in Review . And not in the pages of the New York Times , where you may opine away with nothing more immediate to fear than a distant letter to the editor or, at worst, a politely dissenting op-ed piece.

  • In this kind of political and economic climate, how likely is it that dissenting voices will have any effect before it is too late?

  • They hail Natasha Richardson's unglamorous portrayal of Sally Bowles--an aging, seedy bisexual nightclub singer--as the "performance of the season" (Ben Brantley, the New York Times ). Dissenting, the Washington Post 's Lloyd Rose says Richardson "can't phrase a song."

  • The undersea sci-fi adventure is dismissed as "another variation of the same old supernatural junk" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). Critics deplore the film's pretentious pronouncements about man's place in the universe and say Levinson is "out of his element" trying to build suspense (Rita Kempley, the Washington Post ). Dissenting, the New York Times ' Janet Maslin calls the stars' performances irresistible and salutes Levinson for tackling a new genre.


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