dissenting opinion

collocation in English

meaningsofdissentingandopinion

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dissenting
adjective[before noun]
uk
/dɪˈsen.tɪŋ/us
/dɪˈsen.t̬ɪŋ/
showing a strongly different opinion on a particular question, especially an official suggestion or plan, a legal decision, or a ...
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opinion
noun
uk
/əˈpɪn.jən/us
/əˈpɪn.jən/
a thought or belief about something ...
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(Definition ofdissentingandopinionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is little known that there is alsodissentingopinion.
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This time there was a tellingdissentingopinionby a female judge attached to this decision.
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There was nodissentingopinionon that point.
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He wrote adissentingopinion.
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Finally, program directors responsible for commissioning guideline projects could mandate the inclusion of adissentingopinionaddendum in final drafts of guidelines.
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On the other hand, there could be a right of appeal in most cases where there was adissentingopinion.
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In any event, that decision was not unanimous and a member of the tribunal had issued adissentingopinion.
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There is nothing new in hisdissentingopinion; he has been arguing it consistently for about 20 years.
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Subject to a powerfuldissentingopinion, the committee recommends the creation of two criminal offences for surrogate pregnancy.
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That cannot be the case because majority opinions very often start off as a minoritydissentingopinion.
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Thedissentingopinionwas that the flight had been radar vectored.
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Those motions to reject were manifestations of the only available means by which any minority ordissentingopinioncould be expressed.
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Is it not further a fact that the comment about this being against humanitarian law was contained in a statement by one judge who gave adissentingopinion?
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Adissentingopiniondoes not create binding precedent nor does it become a part of case law.
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In an attempt to stifledissentingopinion, the central government imposed import controls on newsprint in 1972.
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Leaders with high power motivation possess characteristics similar to leaders with a closed leadership stylean unwillingness to respectdissentingopinion.
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Adissentingopinion(or dissent) is an opinion written by one or more judges expressing disagreement with the majority opinion.
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Thedissentingopinionposited that imposing a servitude on land where the impairment continues for a private use is unconstitutional.
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Hisdissentingopinionalso held that the defendants were not denied effective assistance of counsel in the trial court.
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As adissentingopinionit did not, by definition, express the legal opinion of the majority of the court and has no precedential effect.
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He describes proponents as relying on rhetoric, appeal to fairness, and the right to adissentingopinionrather than on evidence.
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His was the only name on the masthead during a time when resentment was high against adissentingopinionagainst the dominant religion.
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Any system for retaining and archiving data and core samples needs to be designed so thatdissentingopinionlike this can be retained.
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During his time on the court, he issued two separate opinions, onedissentingopinionand two affirming opinions for the five cases he issued judgement on.
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Thedissentingopinionnoted that despite much comment in the popular press, these cases are not concerned with whether alcoholism, simplistically, is or is not a disease.
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