dissident

Converse of object

• allow: We all know that a political vacuum will allow dissidents on all sides to undermine the democratic process.
• imprison: The UN's envoy has urged Havana to release imprisoned dissidents and to allow freedom of expression.
• exile: Ten years after Tiananmen, even some of the dissidents exiled in America are finding a new purpose in evangelical Christianity.
• know: Such a system could easily develop a database of known dissidents, to be used for social control purposes.
• become: In some strange, unexpected and unwanted way, the president has again become a dissident, a dissident from his own government.

Adjective modifier

• Saudi: Moreover the secure communication link was intended for proper use by Saudi dissidents.
• Iraqi: The Pentagon's favorite Iraqi dissident, Ahmed Chalabi, is actually proud of what happened.
• Soviet: The former Soviet dissident was expected to speak of democratic ideals, not disengagement.
• Czech: And Jan Patocka, a Czech dissident, died during interrogation conducted by the communist regime.
• prominent: One of these sites is dedicated to the work of ' one of America's most prominent political dissidents ' - Noam Chomsky.

Modifies a noun

• republican: Later a denial was issued over the claim of links to dissident republicans.
• faction: The dissident faction, however, doesn't represent a decisive break with the past.
• communist: They were to exploit in brilliant fashion this desire to return home in order to arrest dissident Communists.
• intellectual: There was an advanced Canaanite civilization a few miles to the north by the seaside where the dissident intellectuals could have found excellent jobs.
• historian: He describes himself as a dissident historian, rather than revisionist.
• voice: I now move back the greater part of a century for my second dissident voice.

Noun used with modifier

• party: Another opportunity to build on the peace process was lost to save the the UUP leader from his own party dissidents.
• islamist: In recent months, Kuwait has seen several deadly shootouts with Islamist dissidents.
• IRA: IRA dissidents used about 500 pounds to kill 29 people and wound more than 300 in the Northern Ireland town of Omagh in 1998.