Word: dissention
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...single cautionary voice in the mainstream media. Not surprisingly, the nascent movement against “America’s new war” is being told not to challenge the wisdom of its elders. In our democracy, condescension and ridicule are often more effective weapons for stifling dissent than force and intimidation...
...course it's the chairman's show, and this Fed is Greenspan's show in spades. But there are always rumblings of dissent, particularly in tense times such as these, and Greenspan still has to take a vote to budge rates. So the other 11 men (and occasionally women) in suits are not without influence...
...Court watchers are particularly interested in the dynamics of this opinion, which drew dissent from almost every Justice on one point or another. The varying opinions within the official opinion, legal analysts say, indicates serious ideological rifts - and a fundamental lack of cohesion - on this issue...
...worth noting, in case anyone thought Scalia was applying for charter membership in the new, anti-Federalist Society group being started up by Georgetown University law professor Peter Rubin and a few others, that Scalia was in the dissent in the first two cases and in the majority in the third. So though he is sometimes jokingly known as "Let 'Em Go Nino" for certain rulings he's made in the criminal area, the emphasis is on "jokingly." In a handful of cases - most notably last year's Apprendi v. New Jersey, in which he sided with the majority...
...Professors point to Knowles’ establishment of the MacFarquhar committees as unofficial hand-picked bodies, his distaste for vocal dissent, and his decisive, often unexpected intervention in departments as examples of a deanship that is as autocratic as it is diplomatic...