Examples of dissident in a Sentence

dissident elements within the Catholic Church

Recent Examples on the Web The indictment accuses Wang Shujun, of Queens, New York, of using his status within Chinese diaspora and dissident communities to collect information about activists on behalf of China’s Ministry of State Security. — Reuters, NBC News, 19 May 2022 While some of these new roles aren't natural fits, eventually even the dissident vacuum cleaner has to admit that some of these changes are awfully handy. — Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 12 May 2022 This pattern of anti-Ukrainian violence continued with the dissident Ukrainian poet Vasyl Stus, who died a political prisoner in a Russian jail, just six years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. — Sasha Dovzhyk, CNN, 11 May 2022 Last month, police were pelted with petrol bombs after a dissident Irish Republican parade in Derry, also known as Londonderry. — Jill Lawless And Peter Morrison, Anchorage Daily News, 4 May 2022 Last month, police were pelted with petrol bombs after a dissident Irish Republican parade in Derry, also known as Londonderry. — Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2022 Belarusian dissident journalist Roman Protasevich attends a news conference at the National Press Center of Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Minsk, Belarus, last June. — Reuters, NBC News, 6 May 2022 Sorokin doesn’t fit the classic mold of a dissident writer. — New York Times, 16 Apr. 2022 Berkshire may soon have to produce the sort of fuller climate disclosures the dissident shareholders want. — New York Times, 25 Apr. 2022 See More

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