Word: dissenters
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...National Party has been in existence under various names since 1914 and ruled, without interruption, from 1948 to 1994, during which time it put racial segregation - apartheid - into the statute book before being forced, by world pressure and internal black dissent, to remove it. In order to survive, the party has had to make many changes. De Klerk resigned from the post-apartheid government and the party because, he said, he did not want to be a part of the "apartheid baggage of the past." He was replaced by Van Schalkwyk, an articulate 37-year-old managerial whiz kid, whose...
...fact that dissent is being suppressed anywhere means that it could happen in your hometown,” said Wesleyan junior Abe J. Walker, one of the arrested students...
During his talk, West emphasized the need for critical thinking and humanism in responding to the attacks on September 11 and the retaliation against Afghanistan. “The first casualty of war is truth, the second is dissent, and the third is civil liberty,” he said...
...definition of rape, however, was rejected. It wished to define rape as any act of sexual intercourse occurring without the expressed consent of both parties in order to shift the focus of investigations from the victim to the perpetrator; the Ad Board instead favored a definition relying on expressed dissent. Also, the Task Force had supported the formation of “peer-dispute subcommittees,” but the Ad Board rejected this attempt to include students in investigations...
There was some intra-room dispute when faced with what to do about the bat. “I was threatening to catch the bat and keep it and release it outside,” says the humanitarian Myers. Dissent came from LaFlamme and Holmgren who commented that he was ready to go after it with a lacrosse stick. But then one night . . . “I heard this rustling noise, so I was a little wary,” says LaFlamme. He and Myers proceeded to enter his room and search out the critter. The noise came from behind...