6 sentences with 'dissent'
Example sentences and phrases with the word dissent and other words derived from it.
• « Unlike previous revolutionary leaders, Napoleon did not face any dissent within his government or his forces, especially the army. In short, Napoleon was always able to rely on the loyalty of his troops. »
• « In the decades that followed, the slightest sign of dissent by a Russian subject was grounds for imprisonment or exile to a Siberian prison village, and thus kept at bay the political and social changes sweeping the rest of Europe. »
• « However, it was during his reign that modernity finally caught up with Russia. The Russian state was able to control the press and punish dissent in the early years of the 20th century, but then events outside its immediate control undermined its ability to exercise complete control over Russian society. »
• « Angered both by events in Hungary and by the growth of open dissent with the Soviet system in the USSR itself, Nikita Khrushchev reasserted control. Some notable works of art that hinted at dissent were allowed to filter through (until Khrushchev was overthrown by hardliners in 1964, in any case), but change on a larger scale was out of the question. »
• « Iranian Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi ruled Iran as a loyal American client for the next 26 years while suppressing dissent through a brutal secret police force. »
• « Through these relationships, we learn certain models of authority, of command and obedience relationships, of expressing agreements or disagreements: dissent, of managing spaces of power. It is possible to think about whether at home, at school or at work one is the owner, author and manager of one's own life. »