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• n  disagreement; especially disagreement with the government

• But as European leaders struggle to restore economic confidence, independent thinking can look perilously close to dissidence.
• For all the talk about party unity, both conventions were marked by a certain dissidence.
• Paradoxically, the color question stirred up the one breath of dissidence at the San Francisco conference.

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• Nicolas Sarkozy in ABC Online
  Born a year after the Russian revolution, for the very long years of Soviet terror he incarnated 'dissidence',Mr Sarkozy said in a statement. "It was Alexander Solzhenitsyn who opened the eyes of the world to the reality of the Soviet...
• LK Advani in Hindu
  Mr. Advani said, "Normally anti-incumbency factor is associated more with sitting MLAs and candidates. But the BJP has made certain changes [in appointment of the candidates] which will benefit the party." "Dissidence will also not affect the...
• Fidel Castro in CubaNet
  The much-publicized dissidence, or alleged opposition in Cuba, exists only in the fevered minds of the Cuban-American mafia and the bureaucrats in the White House,Castro said to resounding applause.