Sample Sentences fordissident (auto-selected)
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She read Sayyid Qutb, the dissident Egyptian writer regarded as the founder of modern Islamism, and slogged her way through Ibn Taymiyyah, the thirteenth-century Islamic theologian who, according to many experts in the field, was the wellspring for it all.† (source)
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He was crossing the wide green lawn, passing the new sculpture by that Chinese dissident—she remembered she should highlight it soon, maybe even today—and just then he turned briefly, as if checking to see if Mae was still following.† (source)
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We've been hearing for some time about a dissident faction inside their intelligence community, one that does not especially love the Soviets.† (source)
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Most dissidents now are executed, or held under conditions that make them wish for execution.† (source)
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Jack had seen Denker the teacher as not much different from the strutting South American little Caesars in their banana kingdoms, standing dissidents up against the wall of the handiest squash or handball court, a super-zealot in a comparatively small puddle, a man whose every whim becomes a crusade.† (source)
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He gave a speech in 1936 stating that the executions were the only way to rid the Soviet Union of the dissidents striving to undermine its grand success.† (source)
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"We best a free the dissidents and the Jews, but you insist on keeping a fifty-eight-year-old woman who was best a simple courier!" whispered the Russian, spitting out the words.† (source)
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In some ways, it is easier to be a dissident, for then one is without responsibility.† (source)
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The nineteen men from Brazzaville were stashed, along with other Kabila rivals and political dissidents, into a high-security section of Makala called Pavilion One.† (source)
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I have never allowed this furious dissident the courtesy of my full attention.† (source)
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If he was leading this band of dissidents, which direction would he lead them?† (source)
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When a prominent dissident was arrested in China, we would write a front-page article; when 100,000 girls were routinely kidnapped and trafficked into brothels, we didn't even consider it news.† (source)
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He didn't know half the people she talked about — dissidents and philosophers and leaders-in-exile.† (source)
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Ruefully, because the henchman, a likable schemer named Ercole, is secretly involved with dissident elements in the court of Faggio who want to keep Niccolo alive, and so he contrives to stuff a young goat into the cannon instead, meanwhile smuggling Niccolo out of the ducal palace disguised as an elderly procuress.† (source)
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When I was six, in the streets of Shanghai, near the end of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, I watched a parade of trucks carrying political dissidents on their way to be publicly executed.† (source)
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I believe that it is only through empathy that the pain experienced by an Algerian woman, a North Korean dissident, a Rwandan child, or an Iraqi prisoner becomes real to me and not just passing news.† (source)
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