What's the difference between dissent and follow?

Dissent


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To differ in opinion; to be of unlike or contrary sentiment; to disagree; -- followed by from.
  • (v. i.) To differ from an established church in regard to doctrines, rites, or government.
  • (v. i.) To differ; to be of a contrary nature.
  • (n.) The act of dissenting; difference of opinion; refusal to adopt something proposed; nonagreement, nonconcurrence, or disagreement.
  • (n.) Separation from an established church, especially that of England; nonconformity.
  • (n.) Contrariety of nature; diversity in quality.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Faisal Abu Shahla, a senior official in Fatah, an organisation responsible for a good deal of repression of its own when it was in power, accuses Hamas of holding 700 political prisoners in Gaza as part of a broad campaign to suppress dissent.
  • (2) Looks like some kind of dissent, with Ameobi having words with Phil Dowd at the kick off after Liverpool's second goal.
  • (3) The grand patriarch, battling dissent and delusion, coming in for another shot, a new king on the throne, an impossible future to face down.
  • (4) "While it seems possible that more will join the two MPC dissenters in coming months if wage growth picks up, it looks a long way to go before a majority on the MPC vote to raise interest rates," he said.
  • (5) Pointing out that “the army has its own fortune teller”, he sounds less than happy at the state of affairs: “The country is run by superstition.” Weerasethakul is in a relatively fortunate position, in that his arcane films are not exactly populist and don’t depend on the mainstream Thai film industry for funding, but he has become cast as a significant voice of dissent in a difficult time .
  • (6) Malcolm Turnbull is facing a fresh outbreak of internal dissent over the proposal to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution before talks about the referendum on Thursday with the Labor leader, Bill Shorten.
  • (7) The "consultation" and "informed consent" the reports insist must take place before the project goes ahead are a sick joke in a region in which dissent is ruthlessly crushed and people are imprisoned and tortured simply for speaking their own language.
  • (8) Though his life was to be the embodiment of a secularised form of dissent, his high moral seriousness and egalitarianism surely had roots in this radical Protestant background.
  • (9) The Guardian view on Europe’s refugee crisis: a little leadership, at last | Editorial Read more This has led not only to public criticism from protesters on the far right, but also to dissent within her own party.
  • (10) Mugabe and his Zanu-PF thugs, terrified of losing their empire, unleashed a carefully targeted anarchy at anyone who showed the slightest sign of dissent.
  • (11) David Cameron is said to be willing to endure three final months of political controversy to push the health bill through parliament, but is convinced there is no serious dissent in his cabinet, parliamentary party or in the country at large.
  • (12) Twitter has become pivotal in organising anti-government dissent in the past year: the Occupy Gezi movement, which marches against the recently passed internet censorship bill that allows the government to block any content within four hours without a court order, and the massive street protest and the funeral attended by hundreds of thousands after the death of 15-year-old Berkin Elvan , were initiated via social media.
  • (13) The report explains that the Labour peer and Lib Dem advisor based their dissent on three factors: The first factor is devolution.
  • (14) The protests this week have resulted in fewer deaths than the previous week, in a sign the regime may be trying to calm dissent, according to latest reports.
  • (15) Come to that, in a Westminster week where only Syria has displaced allegations of horrifying bullying in the Conservative youth wing – which involve a young man taking his own life – we surely do a disservice to the victims most in need of our help if we fail to make a distinction between bullying and dissent.
  • (16) The mourning period has caused controversy – while many laud him for his contributions to building Singapore into a wealthy city state, others have criticised his rule as one where the media was controlled and dissent was crushed.
  • (17) From the back, however, there was the voice of dissent.
  • (18) One of Corbyn’s reshuffle aims, according to advance briefings, was to bring more unity to the shadow cabinet and Dugher’s serial dissent seems to have sealed his fate.
  • (19) He brooks no dissent or opposition and muzzles media outlets that dare question the wisdom of his rule.
  • (20) But he always agonised over his dissent - during a particularly fraught debate about selling the government-owned telecommunications company Telstra in 2009 – where he wielded a decisive vote, he took himself to hospital with chest pains.

Follow


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.
  • (v. t.) To endeavor to overtake; to go in pursuit of; to chase; to pursue; to prosecute.
  • (v. t.) To accept as authority; to adopt the opinions of; to obey; to yield to; to take as a rule of action; as, to follow good advice.
  • (v. t.) To copy after; to take as an example.
  • (v. t.) To succeed in order of time, rank, or office.
  • (v. t.) To result from, as an effect from a cause, or an inference from a premise.
  • (v. t.) To watch, as a receding object; to keep the eyes fixed upon while in motion; to keep the mind upon while in progress, as a speech, musical performance, etc.; also, to keep up with; to understand the meaning, connection, or force of, as of a course of thought or argument.
  • (v. t.) To walk in, as a road or course; to attend upon closely, as a profession or calling.
  • (v. i.) To go or come after; -- used in the various senses of the transitive verb: To pursue; to attend; to accompany; to be a result; to imitate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Forty-nine patients (with 83 eyes showing signs of the disease) were followed up for between six months and 12 years.
  • (2) Previous use of the drug is found in more than 50 per cent of the patients, and it was often followed by a neglected side-effect.
  • (3) Guillain Barré syndrome following herpes zoster is rare and only 25 cases have been reported to date.
  • (4) Therefore, it is suggested that PE patients without endogenous erythroid colonies may follow almost the same clinical course as SP patients.
  • (5) We were able to detect genetic recombination between vaccine strains of PRV following in vitro or in vivo coinoculation of 2 strains of PRV.
  • (6) Twenty-seven patients were randomized to receive either 50 mg stanozolol or placebo intramuscularly 24 h before operation, followed by a 6 week course of either 5 mg stanozolol or placebo orally, twice daily.
  • (7) However, this deficit was observed only when the sample-place preceded but not when it followed the interpolated visits (second experiment).
  • (8) Following in vitro C activation in NHS by delta IgG, the 40 KD C4d component increased markedly.
  • (9) within 12 h of birth followed by similar injections every day for 10 consecutive days and then every second day for a further 8 weeks, with mycoplasma broth medium (tolerogen), to induce immune tolerance.
  • (10) It is concluded that acute renal denervation augments the pressure diuresis that follows carotid occlusion.
  • (11) These studies led to the following conclusions: (a) all the prominent NHP which remain bound to DNA are also present in somewhat similar proportions in the saline-EDTA, Tris, and 0.35 M NaCl washes of nuclei; (b) a protein comigrating with actin is prominent in the first saline-EDTA wash of nuclei, but present as only a minor band in the subsequent washes and on washed chromatin; (c) the presence of nuclear matrix proteins in all the nuclear washes and cytosol indicates that these proteins are distributed throughout the cell; (d) a histone-binding protein (J2) analogous to the HMG1 protein of K. V. Shooter, G.H.
  • (12) "This is the third event in the last few days following An-26 and SU-25 planes being brought down.
  • (13) Following central retinal artery ligation, infarction of the retinal ganglion cells was reflected by a 97 per cent reduction in the radioactively labeled protein within the optic nerve.
  • (14) It is followed by rapid neurobehavioral deterioration in late infancy or early childhood, a developmental arrest, plateauing, and then either a course of retarded development or continued deterioration.
  • (15) Both the vitellogenesis and the GtH cell activity are restored in the fish exposed to short photoperiod if it is followed by a long photoperiod.
  • (16) Results indicated a .85 probability that Directive Guidance would be followed by Cooperation; a .67 probability that Permissiveness would lead to Noncooperation; and a .97 likelihood that Coerciveness would lead to either Noncooperation or Resistance.
  • (17) Changes in cardiac adenosine triphosphate (ATP), phosphocreatine (PCr) and inorganic phosphate (Pi) were followed and intracellular pH (pHi) was estimated from the chemical shift of Pi.
  • (18) The LD50 of the following metal-binding chelating drugs, EDTA, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA), hydroxyethylenediaminetriacetic acid (HEDTA), cyclohexanediaminotetraacetic acid (CDTA) and triethylenetetraminehexaacetic acid (TTHA) was evaluated in terms of mortality in rats after intraperitoneal administration and was found to be in the order: CDTA greater than EDTA greater than DTPA greater than TTHA greater than HEDTA.
  • (19) Furthermore, all of the sera from seven other patients with shock reactions following the topical application of chlorhexidine preparation also showed high RAST counts.
  • (20) Our results indicate that increasing the delay for more than 8 days following irradiation and TCD syngeneic BMT leads to a rapid loss of the ability to achieve alloengraftment by non-TCD allogeneic bone marrow.