Mr Boehner and other Republican leaders spent all day Thursday arm-twisting dissident lawmakers, but they were unable to win over enough conservative hard-liners.
Mrs Zana became a high-profile dissident when she was awarded the European Parliament's Sakharov Peace Prize in 1995 - a year after her conviction in Turkey.
U.S. authorities have identified Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden -- living in Afghanistan as a "guest" of the Taliban -- as the prime suspect behind last week's attacks.
There was talk when I was there of what they call a third force that--which would be dissident members of Mr. Mugabe's party, Zanu PF, joining up with some of the current opposition, the MDC.
Observers say Perella is friends with many of the ex-executives who make up the dissident group.
Prison-reform campaigners have argued that full-body searches are fuelling support for dissident republicans.
And I think if that ever did come up for a vote, I think you'd find that a number of Republicans - you already have Republicans being very dissident toward the president's policy, people like Gordon Smith in Oregon, Norm Coleman in Minnesota.
Several spates of violence in Northern Ireland this year have prompted warnings by leading politicians that dissident extremists will not be allowed to disturb the hard-won peace.
Moussavi himself has quite a number of nasty skeletons in his closet from his years as the prime minister during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), with his brutal suppression of dissident movements, ideological purging of the universities and so on.
But Mr Valder promises to be a lightning rod for other dissident Liberals, in a campaign where the coalition will be running neck-and-neck with the opposition Labor Party.
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Cuban prosecutors are reported to be seeking a seven-year jail term for Spanish politician Angel Carromero over the death of dissident Oswaldo Paya in a car crash.
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Police in Northern Ireland discovered a 600-pound bomb in County Armagh, which was thought to be the work of a dissident republican group.
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