(a.) No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different.
(n.) One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.
Example Sentences:
(1) They were preceded by the publication of The Success and Failure of Picasso (1965) and Art and Revolution: Ernst Neizvestny and the Role of the Artist in the USSR (1969); in one, he made a hopeless mess of Picasso’s later career, though he was not alone in this; in the other, he elevated a brave dissident artist beyond his talents.
(2) The young woman is Nobel Peace Prize winner Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, then part of the new guard of dissidents and critics, now the president of Liberia.
(3) Henceforth, like many other dissidents, both open and undeclared, Mitrokhin concluded that the system was unreformable and would have to be replaced.
(4) Policing must be as robust against loyalist paramilitaries involved in violent protests over the union flag as it is towards dissident republicans, rank and file police officers have said.
(5) The regime maintains tight controls over all religious institutions in the country: Islamic, Christian, Druze etc,” said Ammar Abdulhamid , a Syrian dissident and democracy activist living in exile in Washington.
(6) In a decision described as deplorable by some, it emerged on Sunday that Athens had refused to endorse an EU statement criticising the crackdown on activists and dissidents under the Chinese president, Xi Jinping .
(7) On Thursday evening, Chinese dissident and political prisoner Liu Xiaobo died from liver cancer in a Shenyang Hospital.
(8) Jared Genser Germany went public with its anger about Beijing’s handling of Liu’s case on Monday, accusing Chinese security services of leaking surveillance footage of Liu being visited by a German doctor in order to bolster a propaganda campaign pushing the idea that the dissident was too ill to be evacuated from China.
(9) The dissident group simultaneously denies McGuinness's claims that London and Dublin have been holding secret discussions with it, and admits that such talks are necessary, although some items on their agenda – such as the conditions in which republican prisoners are held in Maghaberry prison – are more specific than others.
(10) Several Chinese dissidents took the bold step of signing a letter supporting his nomination.
(11) The dissident Gleb Yakunin excavated evidence from the KGB archives in the 1990s that fingered high-ranking priests as KGB agents, including the former head of the church, Aleksei II, and the current, Patriarch Kirill I.
(12) Then a leading dissident member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), Belhaj was seized in Bangkok and handed over to the CIA, who he alleges tortured him and injected him with truth serum before flying him back to Tripoli for interrogation.
(13) The women remained defiant throughout the trial, issuing powerful closing statements that quickly entered the canon of Russia's dissident speeches.
(14) Since Sisi deposed Morsi last July following days of mass demonstrations, at least 16,000 Egyptian dissidents have been arrested, and thousands killed during protests .
(15) As critics of Mr Berlusconi have been barred from the state broadcaster Radiotelevisione Italia, Mr Fo protests that artists are being "defenestrated" metaphorically from the RAI for the same reasons that leftwing dissidents were literally thrown out of police station windows in the 1970s when Mr Fo wrote his work Accidental Death of an Anarchist.
(16) The widow of Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko , who died after being poisoned in London, has "courageously" decided to continue her fight to force a public inquiry.
(17) Phil Robertson, Asia deputy director for Human Rights Watch, said Lieng's death "points to some very, very serious concerns about the kind of harassment" that relatives of dissidents face in Vietnam .
(18) Briefly imprisoned for his firebrand politicking, he later joined a group of exiles in Libya, where Muamar Gadafy was eagerly spreading his crackpot revolutionary ideas among West African dissidents.
(19) Google moved quickly to announce that it would stop censoring its Chinese service after realising dissidents were at risk from attempts to use the company's technology for political surveillance, according to a source with direct knowledge of the internet giant's most senior management.
(20) The foreign secretary, David Miliband, said the expulsions were provoked by the Kremlin's refusal to extradite the former KGB agent Andrei Lugovoi, the prime suspect in the poisoning murder last November of the dissident former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko.
Heterodox
Definition:
(a.) Contrary to, or differing from, some acknowledged standard, as the Bible, the creed of a church, the decree of a council, and the like; not orthodox; heretical; -- said of opinions, doctrines, books, etc., esp. upon theological subjects.
(a.) Holding heterodox opinions, or doctrines not orthodox; heretical; -- said of persons.
(n.) An opinion opposed to some accepted standard.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, only four of the seven CTL clones (which we designate "orthodox") lysed all mutant DPw2+ LCL tested; the other three ("heterodox") CTL clones showed reduced or no lysis of particular LCL which expressed DPw2 but had been mutagenized and selected for loss of DR expression.
(2) Naturopathy is a heterodox professionalized medical system which, in contrast to osteopathy and chiropractic, has received little attention from social scientists, particularly in the United States.
(3) The characteristics of the principal categories of more professional heterodox practice are examined.
(4) The Association for Heterodox Economics welcomes student initiatives for fundamental reform of the economics curriculum, as do our post-Keynesian colleagues ( Letters , 19 November).
(5) The concluding step is the assemblage of a slightly heterodox model for evolution.
(6) "In the old days, few bothered to engage a credit ratings agency because they dealt with what they knew," writes Ha-Joon Chang , a heterodox (or leftwing) economist and author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism.
(7) Preparations for the study included an approach to the General Medical Council for guidance about the intended collaboration between medically qualified and heterodox practitioners, detailed communication with local general practitioners, and the provision of a Medical Research Council (MRC) grant to cover payments to the chiropractors for work carried out in the course of the study.
(8) To set the sisters straight, Levada plans to send an archbishop to rewrite the group's statute and institute re-education programmes to combat heterodox thinking.
(9) In addition, the data presented here, together with structural and sequence information, suggest a heterodox evolutionary model in which genes related to the intron-bearing, basally expressed H3.3 vertebrate genes are the ancestors of the intronless H3.1 class of genes of higher eukaryotes.
(10) Heterodox economists, drawing on a range of theorists, including Keynes, Marx, Minsky and others, have consistently argued for greater pluralism in both economics curricula and economics research evaluation.
(11) Thus armed and protected, he ranged fearlessly across the condition of the left, mostly in the pages of the CP's monthly, Marxism Today, the increasingly heterodox publication of which he became the house deity.
(12) The refinement confirmed the heterodox, non-parallel character of the 8-fold beta alpha-barrel domain with beta beta alpha alpha(beta alpha)6 topology.
(13) "Brod himself was intent on canonising Kafka as a Zionist saint, and the Israeli state holding the papers ensures that this falsification will continue apace – still, it matters not, the works are out there in all their contrariety, sparking different and heterodox sensations as legion as their readers."
(14) They've put on their own lectures from non-mainstream, heterodox economists, even organising evening classes on bubbles, panics and crashes.
(15) In a paper called " Money Creation in the Modern Economy ", co-authored by three economists from the Bank's Monetary Analysis Directorate, they stated outright that most common assumptions of how banking works are simply wrong, and that the kind of populist, heterodox positions more ordinarily associated with groups such as Occupy Wall Street are correct.
(16) In addition to these classical inputs, LHRH neurons also enter into complex heterodox synaptic relationships with their neighbors, including somato-dendritic and dendro-dendritic synapses in which the LHRH neuron can be either the pre- or postsynaptic element.
(17) But heterodox approaches have long since been banished from most faculties, claims Tony Lawson.