How to Use dissident in a Sentence

dissident

adjective
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  • Those efforts have fallen short of the demands of Exxon's dissident investor groups.
    — Cathy Bussewitz, Chron, 25 May 2021
  • Those efforts have fallen short of the demands of Exxon’s dissident investor groups.
    — Cathy Bussewitz, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2021
  • Once the farmers cleared out too, about a century ago, the area became a haven for a certain kind of dissident thinker drawn to its remoteness.
    — Marisa Meltzer, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Apr. 2021
  • In addition to the election of two new independent directors, the votes over two others from the dissident slate were too close to call.
    — Arkansas Online, 27 May 2021
  • Proust, being both gay and Jewish, participated in the two dissident cultures that are at the heart of so much modernist art.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
  • In addition to choosing the two dissident board members, shareholders elected eight current members of Exxon’s board.
    — Cathy Bussewitz, Chron, 26 May 2021
  • Their raspy and dissident squawks are quite out of tune.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Sorokin doesn’t fit the classic mold of a dissident writer.
    — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Last November, more than 150 dissident church members voted to fire Welch and most of the church’s trustees.
    — Rafael Olmeda, sun-sentinel.com, 22 July 2021
  • The takeover was messy, with a vote postponed three times as Rio sought to win support from dissident shareholders.
    — Thomas Biesheuvel, Dinesh Nair and Jack Farchy, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Why the arrests of artists such as dissident rapper Maykel Castillo?
    — Tracy Wilkinsonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2022
  • Energy giant Exxon fought hard to fend off the dissident slate.
    — Justin Baer, WSJ, 28 May 2021
  • In September 2021, a dissident board member called for the entire board to be replaced and for LaPierre’s removal.
    — Robert Spitzer, The Conversation, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Hong Kong’s museum bowed to pressure to remove some of the work of dissident artist Ai Weiwei from its display.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Since taking the helm in 2019, Welch came under fire from dissident church members and other critics.
    — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2023
  • And a dissident faction of FARC remains in the jungle nearby, taking in new recruits.
    — New York Times, 26 Sep. 2021
  • Activists on both sides of the Atlantic pushed for disarmament and even reached out to dissident groups in Warsaw Pact countries.
    — Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • That man, dissident Miles Guo, was charged earlier this year in a billion-dollar fraud scheme in New York and remains detained.
    — Robert Legare, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2023
  • Rasoulof’s friend, and fellow dissident director Jafar Panahi, was allowed to leave Iran last week to travel abroad, for the first time in 14 years.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 May 2023
  • At least one speaker at the event reportedly received tens of thousands of dollars from the dissident group.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 10 July 2023
  • But his apartment, which was close to the main border crossing point into West Berlin, still became a gathering place for dissident artists and thinkers.
    — Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 7 July 2023
  • So why is the regime targeting the bases of small dissident Kurdish political groups in northern Iraq?
    — Jonathan Spyer, WSJ, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Berkshire may soon have to produce the sort of fuller climate disclosures the dissident shareholders want.
    — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022
  • In the past five years, 292 former FARC combatants have been killed as violence from dissident groups — those that have rejected the accords — has grown.
    — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2021
  • In one case, the regime this year arrested a dissident journalist after forcing his flight to divert to Belarus.
    — Rafal Niedzielski, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2021
  • It is based on the life and works of Vasyl Stus, a Ukrainian poet, human rights activist, dissident and nationalist hero who died in a Soviet prison camp in 1985.
    — New York Times, 1 July 2022
  • Last year, a report was declassified that put blame on the crown prince for the death of Washington Post journalist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi.
    — Kelly Laco, Fox News, 18 July 2022
  • If a candidate could cobble together those dissident groups, there just might be a path to victory.
    — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Oct. 2021
  • What is less clear is if these were anti-Trump Democrats casting ballots in the Republican primary or dissident Republicans whom the party will need to bring back into the fold.
    — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The judge ruled in favor of a dissident shareholder who had sued Tesla, claiming Mr. Musk’s compensation was excessive.
    — Jack Ewing, New York Times, 31 May 2024

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