What is "dissenting"

Usage examples of "dissenting".

Dissenting diplomats from abroad sent messages which expressed the Allied Powers opinion that it was necessary that the Hungarian Government follow the example of the Rumanian King Michael, and the Hungarian Ambassador at Ankara Voernle received similar advice from the English Ambassador in the same town.

The Nicolotti knew it well when, a few months before, they had unanimously elected him to rule over them--as their chief officers had realized it when they had nominated him, without a dissenting voice, to this position of gastaldo grande--a position of great honor fully recognized by the government.

A second consequence of the Reformation is seen in the numerous dissenting sects to which its issues gave rise.

The Flamingohawk, Limpkin and Shoebill insisted that the record show their voices to be the dissenting ones.

All that takes place upon the earth befalls according to the eternal decree of God, a conception in which, at least among the Orthodox Moslems, the Sunnites, who are distinguished in this respect, as in others, from the dissenting Shiites, there is no place left for human freedom.

Saddam has a history of shooting the messenger and seeing dissenting views as challenges to his authority--challenges usually met with dismissal or summary execution.

Justice Field in a dissenting opinion, was not a railroad case primarily but grew out of warehouse legislation which the farmers of Illinois secured in 1871.

She was commended for saving the children from the colony, and mildly scolded for not having saved the colony itself - although a dissenting comment argued that any such attempt would have been an unnecessary and reckless risk to her ship.

He had a liking for long sermons, and a sad abhorrence of amusements, and sat out the morning and the evening services regularly—and kept up his dissenting connection too, and gave them money—and appeared in print, in all charitable lists—and mourned over other men's backslidings and calamities in a lofty and Christian way, shaking his tall bald head, and turning up his pink eyes mildly.

I told him so many diplomats and politicians were canonizing Lloyd that I thought a dissenting opinion would give my story depth.

He knows that one Matabele warrior would eat a hundred of is, so w1en t we rose against dlem, usec die w-lite soldiers of Smith's government who had stayed on--2 Craig remembered the delight of the embittered white soldiers who considered they had not been defeated but had been betrayed, when the Mugabe government had turned them loose on the dissenting Matabele faction.

By the act of Uniformity in 1662 he broke the power of the Puritan clergy by banishing all dissenting clergymen from their parishes.

Since the attacks in September, the government in power had done a good job of casting any dissenting opinion as ill-timed and unpatriotic.

This is not a dissenting opinion, I'm just exploring another possibility.

I was told that everything that happened to me was for my good, and by what possible standard of judgement would I have reached a dissenting opinion?