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Example sentences for "dissenting voice"

  • In approved form, and with a dignity that would have done no discredit to a high-church bishop, the rules were read off by the Chairman and agreed to without a dissenting voice.

  • It consisted of fifty-five members; and without a dissenting voice, Washington, a delegate from Virginia, was elected its President.

  • His last hours were spent at the capital of his native commonwealth, which had, with scarce a dissenting voice, just honored itself by electing him to its chief executive office.

  • Without a dissenting voice in the Electoral Colleges, Washington had been chosen President.

  • Miss Anthony and Miss Shaw addressed the Committee on Resolutions, and the next day a plank declaring for the amendment was adopted by the big convention with only one dissenting voice.

  • If any of the soldiers of 1789 were here with whom he was in council, there would not be a dissenting voice to using every exertion.

  • Mr. OTIS withdrew his amendment; and then all the three resolutions were agreed to, without a dissenting voice.

  • A viva voce vote was then taken and the resolution was adopted without a dissenting voice.

  • The building situation was carefully and thoroughly discussed, and without a dissenting voice it was agreed to sustain the Master Masons in the action taken relative to the strike.

  • There was not a dissenting voice to be heard in regard to the question.

  • Expressions were taken from those present in regard to the course that should be pursued in reference to the strike, and there was not a dissenting voice on the proposition to refuse the demands made.

  • The Assembly accepted the report, apparently without a dissenting voice, and postponed discussion of the question of numbers to June 3.

  • They say, without a dissenting voice, that the Independent Republican movement is right and wise and just.

  • On the contrary, it was passed without a dissenting voice, and only waits till the residue of that system of which it makes a part, can be digested and put into the form of a law.

  • The funding their foreign debts, according to express contract, passed without a debate and without a dissenting voice.

  • In this quarter, all espouse your propositions with ardor, and without a dissenting voice.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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