One of the more depressing aspects of this is the "news management" of the story by the BBC, who delightedly showed the Blairesque General Synod Claque (with a few principled dissentients) applauding this loose-tongued Archbishop. ❋ Unknown (2008)
BITTERMANN: And experts say the outburst of violence, once again, demonstrated how tense the suburbs remain over housing and unemployment among the dissentients of immigrants, the same two issues as two years ago. ❋ Unknown (2007)
If we are to have any Utopia at all, we must have a clear common purpose, and a great and steadfast movement of will to override all these incurably egotistical dissentients. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
The ideas of treaties and contracts with exterior administrations and of any diplomatic dealings with dissentients were abandoned. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
It is accordingly on this battle-field, almost solely, that the rights of the individual against society have been asserted on broad grounds of principle, and the claim of society to exercise authority over dissentients openly controverted. ❋ Unknown (2002)
And thus is kept up a state of things very satisfactory to some minds, because, without the unpleasant process of fining or imprisoning anybody, it maintains all prevailing opinions outwardly undisturbed, while it does not absolutely interdict the exercise of reason by dissentients afflicted with the malady of thought. ❋ Unknown (2002)
When there are persons to be found, who form an exception to the apparent unanimity of the world on any subject, even if the world is in the right, it is always probable that dissentients have something worth hearing to say for themselves, and that truth would lose something by their silence. ❋ Unknown (2002)
Instead of being, as at first, constantly on the alert either to defend themselves against the world, or to bring the world over to them, they have subsided into acquiescence, and neither listen, when they can help it, to arguments against their creed, nor trouble dissentients (if there be such) with arguments in its favor. ❋ Unknown (2002)
There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides. ❋ Orwell, George, 1903-1950 (1971)
To such dissentients I will remark, that a great portion of the work can be performed by women and children. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)
Fringe_ with the other, stepped forward, did some more dumb show to the dissentients, and, with the rest of the actors, bowed down the curtain. ❋ Various (N/A)
He refused to accept the appointment given him and organized the Central Methodist Church with dissentients formerly members of Union Bethel. ❋ Various (N/A)
Even the Epicureans, who are said to have rejected logic can hardly be counted as dissentients from this threefold division. ❋ St. George William Joseph Stock (N/A)
The women's clause was carried, with only thirty-five dissentients and later only seventeen voted against it. ❋ Helen Fraser (N/A)
They believed that it imposed an unreasonable burden and according to the dissentients was, therefore, void. ❋ Various (N/A)
All was confusion; the demon of discord and madness was among them, and I was glad to see them cool down, when the dissentients to the assault proposed making a round to-night and attacking to-morrow. ❋ Henry Keppel (N/A)
The Swedish system discriminates in favour of the dissentients within a party, and this discrimination may have unexpected effects on party organization. ❋ John H. Humphreys (N/A)
Should a few be found regardless of the _general weal_, let the proprietary, &c. join and purchase such lands, and if otherwise, it is presumed the dissentients to the measure would be so small as not to affect in any material degree the _general_ interest, inasmuch as those who dissented, from the consequent scarcity of land arising from the measure, would demand a high rental for their land. ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)
Representatives, and in the Senate with not more than one or two dissentients on any one of them: -- ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)
