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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)
- Most dissidents now are executed, or held under conditions that make them wish for execution.† (source)
- 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)
- It was in 1986, not long after Baby Doc left Haiti, an event that marked the end of the Duvaliers' reign, which was being followed by what dissident Haitians called Duvalierism without Duvalier, with the Haitian army generally taking on the dictatorial role.† (source)
- In some ways, it is easier to be a dissident, for then one is without responsibility.† (source)
- 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)
- But Kennedy would go on to become a self-described "dissident at large," writing numberless articles and several books that railed against bigotry.† (source)
- Getting ten or twelve dissidents together is a whole lot easier than assembling a hundred.† (source)
- 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)
- If he was leading this band of dissidents, which direction would he lead them?† (source)
- 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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- 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)
- I have never allowed this furious dissident the courtesy of my full attention.† (source)
- 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)
- 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)
- The Chinese keep tight control of the Internet to assure it cannot be used to spread the opinions of dissidents.
- They'd captured more of the albino dissidents.† (source)
- He didn't know half the people she talked about — dissidents and philosophers and leaders-in-exile.† (source)
- 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)
- "We've been hearing for some time about a dissident faction inside their intelligence community, one that does not especially love the Soviets.† (source)
- He appointed close friends and family to government positions, began to jail political dissidents and human rights advocates, and prevented the United Nations from investigating the slaughter of thousands of refugees in eastern Rwanda, for which his own men were responsible.† (source)
- My friends and I did not want to miss any of the meetings where political dissidents were publicly tortured and humiliated.† (source)
- When the Soviets first occupied Lithuania in 1940, the elder Ramius was instrumental in rounding up political dissidents, shop owners, priests, and anyone else who might have been troublesome to the new regime.† (source)
- A thousand or so dissidents sworn to nonviolence didn't present a threat to the Horde, but the number of defections from the Horde to the Circle was water on Qurong's flaky skin.† (source)
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