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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "dissenting" in a sentence

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    dissenting


    1. must have to conduct business with such meetings that there is the danger of dissenting


    2. The independent provisions, however, which in many places have been made for dissenting teachers, by means of voluntary subscriptions, of trust rights, and other evasions of the law, seem very much to have abated the zeal and activity of those teachers


    3. All but two of the questions put to it were answered unanimously, and in the two cases where there was a dissenting minority, a solution was found where the minority were allowed to act in keeping with their convictions, rather than being compelled to act with the majority


    4. They try to eliminate or reduce them by attacking those opponents personally as in elections where all manner of past questionable behaviors of dissenting contenders are “dug up” to try to discredit the persons


    5. A dissenting point of view also was held by a


    6. The dissenting point of view was also held by


    7. dissenting disenchantment with the once sacred congregation


    8. voice and dissenting opinions were valued, for us the debate is framed


    9. dissenting vote in the General Assembly conferred on it from the outset an


    10. I was the lone dissenting voice

    11. Since language games are the most effective propagandizing tool of a democracy, to dictate, curtail, and penalize speech, democratic governments ostracize and occlude dissenting opinions, organizations, and ideals


    12. The War against Terror can only end with the emergence of a unifying global peace, or the logocidal extermination of any dissenting thinker, thought, or ability to conceive a better world


    13. Modern philologists accept the same conclusion with hardly a dissenting voice


    14. I waited long to see if any among the brotherhood would take exceptions to the position taken by Sommer, and not a dissenting voice was raised


    15. Dissenting opinions and debate can lead to more creative solutions


    16. The speech was marvelous but the distrust of Russo by some of the dissenting priests was even greater


    17. I knew Mary Grace and Brian would be both sympathetic to our problems and at the same time I was aware that the Chapel was referred to as a dissenting church or more precisely, they weren’t followers of the new messiah and his unification of the world’s faiths


    18. Dissenting churches came in as many different varieties as their were people in churches


    19. It was simply people with a dissenting view


    20. That is the home of a pastor from one of the dissenting church groups

    21. “They’re with a pastor from a dissenting church,” I said


    22. “Now, your family is supposedly safe with some members of the dissenting church,” he said


    23. At the airport I was met by Sergeant Major Christopher Niles of the Pacific Protectorate, another underground dissenting group


    24. Beth told me about Mary Grace’s heroic act and how they were protected by the dissenting churches


    25. With the advantage of possessing this important intelligence, the chief warily laid his plans before his fellows, and, as might have been anticipated from his eloquence and cunning, they were adopted without a dissenting voice


    26. Mademoiselle Eugenie, however, merely returned a dissenting movement of the head, while, with a cold smile, she directed the attention of her mother to an opposite box on the first circle, in which sat the Countess G——, and where Morcerf had just made his appearance


    27. They knew before they came that there was sure to be a lot of 'Jolly good fellow' business and speechmaking, and they had agreed together beforehand to take no part one way or the other, and to refrain from openly dissenting from anything that might


    28. As she thought this, the clamor of dissenting voices rose up Scarlett sniffed


    29. I’d had an idea for a third draft, inventing a countermelody that allowed for a dissenting voice, contrasting with the mounting violence of the main lyrics in a cynical and detached way:


    30. Still in the Dissenting line, eh? Still godly? Or taken to the Church as more genteel?"

    31. Bulstrode to have won the hand of Harriet Vincy; whose family was undeniable in a Middlemarch light—a better light surely than any thrown in London thoroughfares or dissenting chapel-yards


    32. Once more he saw himself the young banker's clerk, with an agreeable person, as clever in figures as he was fluent in speech and fond of theological definition: an eminent though young member of a Calvinistic dissenting church at Highbury, having had striking experience in conviction of sin and sense of pardon


    33. You want dissenting opinions at this point in the market cycle


    34. Dissenting holders brought suit to set the sale aside on the ground that the price was grossly inadequate


    35. Whether compensation to the minority in the force-out has to be adequate depends in part on state law, including the adequacy of appraisal rights for dissenting stockholders, and on compliance with appropriate disclosure requirements under federal securities laws


    36. Mandatory techniques (such as freeze-out mergers in the case of healthy companies, and Chapter 11 bankruptcies in the case of financially troubled companies) involve a compulsory change to the instruments of dissenting security holders if the required threshold of acceptances is received


    37. On April 17th the Senate, without a dissenting vote, ordered an investigation of the wreck of the Titanic, with particular reference to the inadequacy of life-saving boats and apparatus


    38. Stanford to the phraseology of the resolution, it was passed without a division, there not being more perhaps than five dissenting voices


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    Synonyms for "dissenting"

    dissentient dissenting dissident

    "dissenting" definitions

    disagreeing, especially with a majority