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Verilye yf all thynges that euel and vitiouſs maners haue caused to ſeme inconueniente and noughte ſhould be refuſed, as thinges vnmete and reprochefull, then we muſt among Chriſten people wynke at the moſte parte of al thoſe thinges, whych Chriſt taught vs, and ſo ſtreitly forbad them to be winked at, yat thoſe thinges alſo whiche he whiſpered in ye eares of his diſciples he commaunded to be proclaimed in open houſes. And yet ye moſt parte of them is more diſſident from the maners of the worlde nowe a dayes, then my communication was.
On flattening either the higher or lower reed separately, by partially pushing in either one of the pulls, dissident beats instantly arose, which would be made to disappear by partially pushing in the other reed.
In this chapter we look at the question of convergence in corporate governance by evaluating dissident proxy proposals in Canada. […]Dissident proxy initiatives are a direct challenge to corporate management and the board. They contain assertions of filers' views of what constitutes legitimate modes of conduct for the corporation, and can be seen as legitimacy contests between filers and corporate management (Bates and Hennessy, 2010). Dissident, or unsolicited, proposals are published along with those management is required to file annually, […]
1998 October 12, Human Rights Watch Staff, Human Rights Watch World Report 1999, Human Rights Watch, →ISBN, page 304:
This tragic event, coupled with a police operation on the Drumcree site July 15-17, 1998 - which revealed a small cache of explosives and arms and resulted in arrests of dissident loyalists effectively ended the standoff.
2011 July 15, Max Taylor, P.M. Currie, Dissident Irish Republicanism, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 102:
Of the 'dissident' groups which have emerged, the most important has been the RIRA [Real IRA]. While vulnerable to splits, it has contained the deadliest capacity.
2022 April 28, Innocent Chiluwa, Discourse, Media, and Conflict: Examining War and Resolution in the News, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 189:
The post-conflict era in Northern Ireland has been characterized by fluctuating levels of support for dissident republicanism and their “prolonged campaign”
It is largely the story of a man who fell from being a potential leader of the Soviet Communist Party in the early 1960s to being an outcast by the mid-1970s – a dissident in the eyes of officialdom, a "half-dissident" in his own eyes.
Before [Martyn] Frampton published his book Legion of the Rearguard, an exhaustive examination of the dissidents, he highlighted sections of it released in a report by the International Center for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at King's College, London, entitled "The Return of the Militants."
From Warſaw, May 25. That the Dyet of Convocation had held its laſt Seſſion on the 22d, and then agreed to and ſign'd a general Confederacy in good Order, having firſt Sworn not to Elect a Foreigner as above. The Day of Election was fixt for the 25th of Aug. But a Proteſt was enter'd by the Diſſidents, who had been excluded.
1767, Reflections on the Affairs of the Dissidents in Poland, London: , →OCLC, page 7:
The Article which enjoins Peace among the Diſſidents was ſigned by all the Catholics then present, and ſo are alſo the continual Repetitions of it in all the Pacta Conventa, and in the ſame Terms, to the Death of the late King; whereas the Confederacies of 1717 and 1733 are not signed by the Diſſidents, who were expelled from thence by Force.
1768 March, “VIII. Original Pieces, concerning the Present Situation of the Protestants and Greeks in Poland. Wherein are Contained, The Explanation of Their Rights Published by the Court of Russia: The Articles of the Peace of Oliva: The Confederacies of the Dissidents, and the Declarations of the Protestant Courts in Their Favour: The Speeches of the Bishop of Cracovia and the Pope's Nuncio: The Constitutions of the Diet of 1766: And the Articles of the College of the Bishops Allowed to the Dissidents, &c. &c. &c. Translated from the Originals. 8vo. Pr 2s. 6d. Baker.”, in The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, volume XXV, London: Printed for A. Hamilton, in Falcon-Court, Fleet-Street, →OCLC, pages 206–207:
Theſe Pieces are introduced by a very ſenſible preface, explaining the hardſhips and injuſtice which have been inflicted upon the Diſſidents of Poland. We there ſee that the Diſſidents (by whom are meant the proteſtants and the Greeks) had their privileges eſtablished by the fundamental laws paſſed in 1572; and that theſe rights were confirmed by the treaty of Oliva in 1660, which was guarantied by the principal powers of Europe.
A Socinian was a Dissident, and a member of the Greek Church was a Dissident; and these Dissidents agreed to act together. Even a liberal Romanist might be called a Dissident.
The rest, about half a million Russian Orthodox and about the same number of Protestants, were known as ‘dissidents’; the huge Jewish community defied classification.