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In other words, fluoride is a broad-spectrum, bipartisan, long-lasting magnet for dissent.

Priests often preach support for the regime to their congregations, many of whom loudly dissent.

As noted by Judge Martha Craig Daughtrey in dissent, this is an outrageous position.

Others also suspect civil groups with funding coming from Mainland China are sowing dissent.

Racial mistrust, military tactics against citizens, dissent quashed.

What justifies the disruption requires a dissent from the civil power, as a power not of God.

The first reading was carried without a division, the Duke of Richmond being the only peer who expressed dissent.

It requires more power and strength of mind and decision of character to dissent from the Church of the State than to support it.

For from these three Chapels came not only the impulse of the spiritual life of Llanyglo, but its local politics of dissent also.

He was re-nominated the next year without dissent or opposition, but declined a re-election on account of ill health.

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On this page you'll find 140 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dissent, such as: discord, dissension, disunity, objection, opposition, and protest.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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