Example sentences for: dissidents

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

  • An opinion piece Monday in the Irish Times said, "Internment will not merely put the Nazi wing [of the IRA] behind bars; it will also serve to strengthen the conciliatory Adams/McGuinness wing in their arguments with dissidents inside the larger Sinn Féin/IRA family."

  • Only the Los Angeles Times includes anything negative about Sharif, noting that he has jailed dissidents.

  • They disclosed domestic intelligence efforts, which included a covert action program that operated from 1956 to 1971 against domestic organizations and, eventually, domestic dissidents.

  • Critics have three main complaints: 1) his shoddy economics (see Paul Krugman in the Washington Post and in Slate); 2) his tired prescriptions--regulation, taxation, and protectionism; 3) his continued bashing of the Federal Reserve Board (a repetition of the theme of his 799-page Secrets of the Temple ). "This is a book that graduate students and coffeehouse dissidents everywhere will enjoy," says Mead.

  • In separate stories, the NYT and Post report that a Chinese court meted out harsh prison sentences to two political dissidents.


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