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  • The Catholic is arrogant toward the Protestant; the Protestant is arrogant toward the Catholic; the Anglican is arrogant to him whom he calls a Dissenter in England, and merely "unchurches" in America; the

    The Conquest of Fear Basil King 1893

  • Um -- American Dissenter, Griffin was the only good guy who came out of the Bush admin because he was an actual engineer.

    Mike Griffin Wants His Old Job Back - NASA Watch 2009

  • Though eventually admitted to the Royal Society, neither of these men one a Dissenter, the other an immigrant was the sort of gentleman-researcher who had founded it.

    An Engine of Perpetual Revolution By Alan Hirshfeld 2011

  • Stevens was a master at marshalling the votes needed to create a majority where possible, rather than staying stuck as the "Great Dissenter."

    Linda R. Monk, J.D.: Arguing the Case Against Elena Kagan: Nice Matters J.D. Linda R. Monk 2010

  • See the example recounted by the dissenter Vladimir Bukovsky in To Build a Castle: My Life as a Dissenter, translated by Michael Scammell New York: Viking, 1978, 272.

    Deathride John Mosier 2010

  • See the example recounted by the dissenter Vladimir Bukovsky in To Build a Castle: My Life as a Dissenter, translated by Michael Scammell New York: Viking, 1978, 272.

    Deathride John Mosier 2010

  • Within Protestantism for every Solemn League and Convenant of 1643, there was the Clarendon Code of the 1660's, tension between Church of Scotland and Anglicans, within the Church of Scotland with Calvinists, and the aforementioned Clarendon Code and the list of Dissenter churches that came later: Congregationalists, Church of Scotland, Unitarian, Quaker, Methodist and Baptists.

    TEXAS FAITH: Why is the political pendulum swinging so much? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010

  • The article, "Dissenter on Climate Change Takes Fight to the Web" is careless at best and willfully deceptive at worst for several reasons.

    NY Times Climate Change Article: Careless or Deceptive? 2009

  • I hope the editors at The New York Times are just sooooo entrenched in the role of giving both sides of an argument the benefit of the doubt that they can't see the simplistic idiocy of articles like, "Dissenter on Climate Change Takes Fight to the Web."

    NY Times Climate Change Article: Careless or Deceptive? 2009

  • Dissenter by Archie on Thursday, Apr 23, 2009 at 12: 31: 41 PM

    Dissenter on Torture w/in Bush Admin speaks out! 2009

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