Word: dissenting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Council of Ministers included a large majority of native Fijians and are expected to follow policies favoring Fijians. Mara is Rabuka's new Foreign Minister, and will drop Bavadra's nonaligned stance in favor of a pro-Western foreign policy. Rabuka is highly popular and faces little dissent from within the army, whose troops are 95% ethnic Fijian...
...crude intimidation by rattling the RRR [Resolution on Rights and Responsibilites] sabre. Needless to say, this flexing of administrative muscle never works, and when a predictable "disruption" occurs, Dean Epps swings into action as the Conservative Club's prosecuting attorney. The end benefit, apart from the gagging of student dissent by grounding a nucleus of student activists with disciplinary probation, is invisible to the naked...
...fairly serviceable, all-purpose left-wing dish. Recipe for a Communist: Preheat a Third World dictatorship whose principal devotions are to its own maintenance and anti-Communism; coddle an oligarchy that controls 90 percent of the national wealth; skin off an educated middle class through exile or intimidation; chill dissent by suppression; crush peasants and workers with hunger and debts that make progress impossible; let foreign corporations porations drain the country of raw materials; stir in an army that reports only to the dictator and operates through terror and torture; garnish with corruption; combine all ingredients with sponsorship...
...Justice Potter Stewart aptly observed in his dissent in Young vs. American Mini-Theatres: "[We] must never forget that the consequences of enforcing the guarantees of the First Amendment are frequently unpleasant. Much speech that seems to be of little or no value will enter the marketplace of ideas, threatening the quality of our social discourse, and, more generally, the serenity of our lives. But that is the price to be paid for constitutional freedom." Linton J. Childs...
...earliest faint stirrings of dissent occurred in 1974, when that year's synod departed from the traditional affirmation that apartheid derived directly from Scripture, and said only that apartheid was not in any way contrary to Scripture. That dissent grew stronger in 1980, when eight theologians published a statement protesting the "apparent inability of the institutionalized church in South Africa to fulfill its God-given calling of reconciliation . . . between different race groups." In 1982 the eight grew to 123 ministers calling on the N.G.K. to play a "much greater role of reconciliation," and though that year's synod elected...