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Sentence Examples Various protesting critics seem to view the less-wealthy as second-class citizens. They were protesting at what they see as management's victimisation of a Unison union convenor and a senior shop steward. The foundation has been protesting over the past 30 years against the selling of eggs from battery cages. The heavy black oak door swung to behind me with a muffled moan of protesting hinges. It ruled that the union would face legal action if it failed to control the behaviour of those protesting. Earlier this month 450 people were arrested for protesting outside the Republican Party's national convention. He was given a long lecture by Clark after protesting in a most unphilosophical fashion. Keep on raging against the machine and protesting every single microaggression you witness. They are demanding to be paid their June wages, and protesting a delay in severance pay to five laid-off workers. The clamour reached a feverish pitch as winners too joined the chorus of the losers in protesting against the decisions. Westminster has been besieged over the past week by public sector workers protesting that the government was out of touch with them. Residents are protesting against council plans to install traffic calming measures on their doorsteps. Coastal fishing communities had been protesting the invasion of their fishing grounds by the trawlers. The mature students were protesting at the shock announcement of the end of childcare funding. They are protesting against the imposition of a 1 percent pay rise for 2003 by the prison service. The trio, including a pair dressed as Batman and Robin, were brought down from the roof at 7.10 am after protesting for 40 minutes. The supermarkets are squeezing them, and dairy farmers were protesting last week over the price of a pinta. With the boy protesting all the way, they bodily hauled him out of the cell. A man protesting against student debt has completed the stunt of rolling a monkey nut seven miles to Downing Street using only his nose. Police were forced to use rubber bullets, stun grenades and teargas to disperse about 120 people protesting the relocation on Tuesday. Show More Sentences Between 300 and 400 soldiers, border police and civilian police got into running fistfights with the protesting settlers, bloodying some of them. Since when did protesting unbiblical sexual behavior automatically become a hate crime? Anyway, to stop me pining for my family, Reginald suggested we join a group protesting against a proposed massive wind-turbine development. The activists were protesting plans by the hospital to trap up to 75 feral cats and turn them over to a local animal pound. Angry parents and residents were protesting yesterday over a proposal to build a mobile phone mast near an infant and junior school. The picketers had been protesting for more than a month, demanding jobs, with no response from government authorities. The Solapur riots had started when fanatic Hindus resisted Muslims protesting against the outpourings of the American evangelist Falwell. The news comes after thousands of local people signed a petition protesting over plans to sell Altrincham ice rink for housing. If industry prices are high, and artists keep protesting, their predictions of a failed industry will come true. He had only time to back away before the thick wooden doors swung open, hinges protesting loudly. The workers were protesting management's decision to outsource some work, despite requests by the employees not to do so. The young striker then appeared to be held in the area but when the appeals were turned down Ian McKain was cautioned for protesting. Fending off a protesting Violet, Briar emphatically closed and locked the door before taking a seat on the sofa. What they are good at is picking logic up by its tail and whirling it around in circles, ignoring its protesting screams and caterwauls. Whatever oppressive tactics the authorities use, we should not let them stop us protesting and expressing our anger about their atrocities. Farmers and miners are protesting that wads of money are being spent on technology when all they really want is some decent irrigation. After a moment, she pulled her mouth away from his, grimacing and protesting. She was fired some three months ago after protesting against the company's policy of forcing employees to work overtime while not clocked in. It is my prediction that protesting may yet become the recreational pursuit of choice in the 21st century. A draconian law to quell demonstrations has only galvanised public support for young Quebecois protesting tuition fee hikes. Show More Sentences The gondoliers are protesting a law prohibiting gondola rides in Venice's famed canals during the morning rush hour. Then both brothers startled as the engine room hatchway grated open, the metal protesting as it had to be forced. Contracts are still often broken at will by rural Party cadres and the protesting peasants beaten up. We think the media is trying to make it look like we were put up to protesting. The taxi association members were protesting against the impounding of their vehicles by traffic authorities for not having operating permits. Mexico's foreign minister says he sent a diplomatic note to the United States protesting the law. Since the start of the war, a number of friends have asked why I am still protesting against it. Rick lunged over the console, drawing a protesting electronic whine from the stereo speakers in the walls and ceiling. Besides the protesting of aforesaid groups, the movie has introduced an aspect of the story of Christ to those who may be less familiar with it. Many Gandhians who had kept mum during earlier riots are protesting this time and actively working for restoration of peace. They are protesting over the Bank's failure to recompense them for produce sold to the now defunct meat plant, but never paid for. I was looking at the FBI files and saw that my mother had written protesting the government's witch-hunt of the labor unions. They say there are people protesting, there are people complaining, there are people saying they want the plan changed. The Democrats are protesting Republican plans to redraw congressional districts. They planned to oppose him for refusing to cross a union picket line at parliament house protesting the workers compensation reforms. In some instances, detainees have been severely punished for complaining or protesting about the conditions inside the camps. He told the committee that he understood why the objectors were protesting as they had enjoyed the open space and green field near their homes. She published two volumes of reportage, Vietnam and Hanoi, protesting against American involvement in Vietnam. The protesting workers used tanks, armoured cars, and missile launchers to seal the entrance, creating a gridlock along a nearby highway. At this, Ryan let out a protesting squawk, which brought forth a louder round of laughter from the others. Show More Sentences At least one national radio station had to reschedule its programmes because of protesting staff. Last year, the building was occupied by a group of squatters, who claimed they were protesting against buildings being left empty in York. Disabling them is fundamentally different from protesting in the streets or even the trivial offence of spray-painting graffiti on signage. Thousands of people have staged demonstrations across Spain in support of protesting immigrant workers. Pensioners from all trade unions daily throng the streets protesting against non-payment of entitlements. They are protesting non-payment of salaries for the months of December, January, February and March. Another reason may be that talking to the media is a way of denouncing, protesting, and also of protecting yourself. Violent clashes took place between riot squads and protesting police officers that had blocked the entrance to Greece's finance ministry. Silently cursing, he dragged himself to his feet and followed the elder knight, protesting with his usual complaints. It was the Democrats protesting against Democrats in office in a Democratic city. Neither was it a Rousseauist abstraction, but a body of angry sans-culottes protesting against the recession and tax increases. They were protesting against the attitude of the Indian Bank Association with regard to revision of pay scales. They were protesting against the New Labour council's decision to privatise the home care service. They had issued a flyer protesting the vice squad's raid of the service provider's office. The streets of Spain were crowded Friday with millions of Spaniards protesting. They are also protesting the commodification of public goods and services, like water, electricity and garbage collection. Sections of the city centre were brought to a halt by marchers protesting against job losses and poor working conditions. Fortunately for them, there were several people outside the jail who were protesting the arrest of the marchers. No doubt many of Saturday's marchers will claim their own particular reasons for protesting this time. You see, the Dems are protesting a SCOTUS decision that upholds a law many of them voted for. Show More Sentences Several bones popped, protesting the sudden movement after being stationary for so long. Pupils of a Richmond secondary school are protesting after a streaming policy was scrapped by their new headteacher. Even his lungs are protesting the action of mere breathing, and he groans a little with each ragged breath. They had to be whisked in by a back entrance, completely screened from the workers protesting outside. A year ago I was in a poorly state, and my heart was protesting in the only way it knows. Like those before him, Horowitz pooh-poohs the idea of a recalcitrant left waking up to the error of its anti-war protesting ways. You might expect the music of this remarkable life to express a searing, protesting intensity. They are also protesting the employers' refusal to pay benefits to workers seconded to the water utility companies. We have been protesting, rallying and mobilising, but we've also been distracted by the more mundane activities of teaching, dissertating, and drinking. But residents and ratepayers have been protesting these private takeovers. And the ones protesting the loudest may be the war-mongering men forced into pacifist celibacy. After protesting in Tampa, Cecile Richards will take the stage in Charlotte. She screamed to no one and at that took off at a bolt, ignoring the protesting jabs of pain in her chest as she shot over to the door and scrambling with the lock. She got out of bed, her body protesting with aches and stiffness. Workers at the factory are raising a petition protesting against the move. Even though most of me was protesting witlessly against my decision, I pushed myself past their disapproval and uttered the secret that I finally found the courage to confess. She wanted to know whether Amnesty International was protesting at Shannon Airport when American troop carriers were refuelling with the permission of the Irish Government. Citizens protesting a nuclear plant in Tamil Nadu, as you read this, have been charged with sedition. The students were protesting the May 22 military coup that brought a junta and gen. Prayut to power. The removing of the bus bay is a victory for people power as residents had handed in more than 160 signatures to Lambeth Council protesting against the scheme. Show More Sentences Critics who are less bullish on The Crazy Ones bemoan all of this, protesting that the Robin Williams shtick is worn out. Military soldiers arrived and tear-gassed the protesting farmers. Two hundred immigrants had marched along Devon, protesting the new policy. They are also protesting the company's union busting tactics. With the minimum of fuss, two masseurs, working in unison, applied hot medicated oils over my body and set about the task of coaxing the knots out of my protesting muscles. Self-immolation has been around for centuries, having been intermittently practiced by protesting monks in the East. In normal times the thought of using vinyl planking on the floor would have me out manning the barricades, fighting on the beaches and protesting in other suitable ways. National Guardsmen regularly tilted with protesting workers convinced that they were once again, as in 1830, about to be cheated of their revolution. Authorities blame anarchists protesting a proposed high-speed rail line called TAV that will link Turin and Lyon, France. My parents mixed with the CND crowd protesting about the local airbases. It ends with the animal protesting, after being chained during musth. She is taut with prettiness, and when she smiles, I am sure I can hear her jaw click, protesting the disruption. Shopkeepers in Marlborough have now joined the town's market stallholders in protesting at the number of days' trade lost through street closures. A prisoner has starved to death after fasting for seven months, becoming the 48th person to die in hunger strikes protesting against changes to Turkey's prison system. Even the Capuchin priests began protesting about the disorderly soldiers. I could hear nothing but the pounding of my protesting heart. Hotel workers have also struck, and other workers are protesting. There are so many types of suffering and injustice in the world that any single person can only be active in protesting about and opposing a fraction of them. The motoring lobby had been protesting, like so many schoolboys banned from baking their conkers, that concealed speed cameras were a rotten swizz. Pitching the protesting owner onto the dock, he switched the ignition on. Show More Sentences Today my comrades are protesting outside our local shopping centre. This is like protesting the menorah because it excludes the innumerate. She awoke, her body protesting as she drew a convulsive breath and sat up. Armed with pencil and paper, I stood there irresolutely, protesting. Surely this can be read as Jonson's way of protesting his innocence in the whole Powder treason and the charges of seducing youth to popish religion. I sprinted toward the bus, my cramped muscles protesting every movement. And one woman objected to her husband protesting about cyclists. Planners, who will consider whether to grant planning permission next month, have received at least 12 objections protesting about the loss of green belt land. A man who has spent 26 years in prison protesting his innocence of murder was suffering from a mental disorder at the time of his trial, the Court of Appeal heard yesterday. Political missives protesting the arrival of the digerati into the poor, largely Latino neighborhood take up wall space between shops and buildings. Despite protesting his innocence, he is convicted and imprisoned. They were protesting agricultural mechanization and other harsh conditions. Police and protesters clashed in Lithuania where people protesting the economic conditions were shot with rubber bullets. Bruno won by TKO in the 8th round, the referee stopping the bout, although it appeared the protesting Bugner could have continued. Anti-war campaigners are protesting against the presence of British troops in Iraq with a silent vigil. The Australians were offered the light immediately after tea, despite the English protesting and wanting to bowl Giles. The alleged incidents happened when the antivivisection group Speak, had been protesting against animal testing outside a theatre in Oxford. Phillip Alale, although his posture was slumpy, kept on loudly protesting his innocence. Bin Hammam also responded by writing to FIFA, protesting unfair treatment in suspension by the FIFA Ethics Committee and FIFA administration. In March 2011, the square was occupied by a crowd protesting against the UK Budget and proposed budget cuts. Show More Sentences The drive to lower the voting age was driven in large part by the broader student activism movement protesting the Vietnam War. On 31 October 1517, Luther wrote to his bishop, Albrecht von Brandenburg, protesting the sale of indulgences. They're protesting changes to prison rules that have removed their POW perqs. An OWS afternoon march ends not at Wall Street but at a rally by postal workers protesting against a five-day delivery week. In 1951, Frisian language activists, protesting the exclusive use of Dutch in the courts, caused a riot in Leeuwarden. Wood was arrested on 8 January 2007 for protesting against the UK's Trident nuclear missile programme at Faslane naval base in Scotland. The protesting and dissenting minority at once claimed to be the legitimate Free Church. All the defendants denied the charges and claimed that they were merely protesting in defence of their rights. In 1919 British troops fired on a rally protesting against new taxes, killing four Maltese men. They're protesting against land grabs, reparations, stolen elections, the rising cost of living, many things. The protestors are protesting land grabs and lack of basic human rights such as the freedom to elect their representatives. The women claimed they were protesting the Orthodox Church's coziness with the state, which did little to endear them to their fellow citizens. The violence erupted as Uighurs were protesting against China's heavy-handed Ramzan crackdown. And Sylmar was left protesting the noncall and several missed opportunities. In mid-May, they began peacefully protesting in Tiananmen Square in China's capital of Beijing. Rustu came charging out of his goalmouth to join a ruck of protesting players who had surrounded Mols as Johnson writhed on the turf. In reply, the cultivators, apparently now protesting under the banner of the BKU gheraoed the power station. Was transferred to Barcelona for a spell and the streets of Oporto were brought to a standstill by protesting senhoritas. One of the greatest strengths of the Canadian movement against BGH was the diversity of people and communities who were active in protesting. There's not a fancy hospital corner in sight but Dan is protesting his wonky edges aren't that bad. Show More Sentences We are protesting against Salman Khan's film 'Veer' in which the Rajputs have been insulted and negative comments have been made against them. What sparked off the protests to begin with was a water dispute in Daraa, the so-called epicentre of the peaceful Syria revolution, with Alawis and Druze doing the protesting. Jamie was sitting in Daisy's cot next to her, wearing his new Batman outfit, back to front, attempting to tie his Batcape around his protesting baby sister. In the past few months, there have been mass demonstrations on the Turkish side of the city protesting the intransigence of the nationalist and military leadership. A man protesting against student debt completed the bizarre stunt yesterday of rolling a monkey nut seven miles to Downing Street using only his nose. Hugo Hinfelaar looks at the Lumpa Church from the perspective of women protesting against missionary churches for introducing domination against Bemba women. In the Tokyo Declaration, the World Medical Association made clear 39 years ago that it is wrong to force-feed a competent prisoner who is peacefully protesting. Whatever the immediate motivations of the arsonists of 1830 and 1831, their actions undoubtedly gave added strength to the demands of the protesting crowds. The nurse was brushing knots from the protesting child's hair. When the editorial staff was informed of plans for the front-page ad, about 100 employees signed a petition protesting the decision, according to Reuters. Elizabeth, though protesting her innocence in the Wyatt affair, was imprisoned in the Tower of London for two months, then was put under house arrest at Woodstock Palace. But Saints were furious after Davis appeared to take a quick-tap penalty before deciding to go for goal, and Karle Hammond was sin-binned for protesting. The American Federation of Musicians took out newspaper advertisements protesting the replacement of live musicians with mechanical playing devices. Abadi ordered a separate neighbourhood demilitarised last weekend after heavily armed gunmen protesting against an alleged kidnapping clashed with security forces. In supporting the Spanish Evangelical Church, the Episcopal Synod joined LGBT advocacy groups by protesting its removal from the Evangelical Council of Madrid. We are, after all, a show known for getting into hot water through our antics, and now we're protesting our innocence over this affair, we're seen as merely crying wolf. When the three Baltic countries, not knowing about the secret protocols, sent letters protesting the Soviet invasions to Berlin, Ribbentrop returned them. In October 2010, he and 100 other leading artists signed an open letter to the Culture Minister Jeremy Hunt protesting against cutbacks in the arts. The best way of protesting against Ashley and the embarassing Kinnear is to chant loudly before a game and every game but get right behind the team once the game kicks off. They, among other things, objected to the English language Book of Common Prayer, protesting that the English language was still unknown to many at the time. Show More Sentences He abdicated sympathy the moment he started making goo-goo eyes at Mandaric just days after protesting there was no way he'd set foot in Fratton Park ever again. Izzy Iriekpen saw a red mist at the end after protesting to referee Matt Messias about Michael Collins' tackle on Swans substitute Owain Tudor Jones. During the debate, 25 MPs risked their careers to draft an amendment protesting against the UK's tacit acceptance of Poland's domination by the Soviet Union. The injunction specifically targeted anyone belonging to, or protesting in the name of, AirportWatch, The No Third Runway Action Group and Plane Stupid. After running the gauntlet of protesting fans, Mr Hicks and his team drove straight from the game to Liverpool John Lennon Airport where his private jet awaited. Gathered around the hospital in Alexandria, Dunbartonshire, the crowd was protesting at a scaling back of services set to take place before the year's end. Examples from Classical Literature Thus ten months of the year at least he lived protesting, and many with him, compulsorily. This time, I am protesting inwardly, but mutely, against the fragmentary representations of the tetralogy. Edward Coy who was burned alive in Texarkana, January 1, 1892, died protesting his innocence. The emotionalist, too, is no longer on safe ground in protesting his miracles of conversion. He rode after us with his Lowlanders, protesting, threatening, cajoling in vain. In 1968, protesting the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, Albania formally withdrew from the pact. Deep would answer to deep, rocambole to M. Lecoq, in protesting against such an omission of their manufacturers. David sat uncomfortably on a broad bean, protesting against this new mania. Napoleon was silent a moment, as if protesting against this invasion of his privacy. And in with the angry tones were the protesting ones of the district nurse. As mentally she recounted her benefits, the strength there was in her arose, protesting. They are protesting and they will do that, especially after you challenge the biggest vested interests in the country. It was Nathalie who had unconsciously turned him, protesting, to his work. She flashed a smile at me, and, protesting an engagement with her dentist, jauntily walked on. Heicklen has been cited or arrested many times in the past for protesting or pamphleteering in prohibited places. Daniel was protesting through his blushes, and Zebedee was laughing. The moment the regiment ceased its advance the protesting splutter of musketry became a steadied roar. I should not be surprised at it, but I declare that they shall not eat me without my protesting. The merchant, protesting his innocence, bewailed his wife and children, and tried pitifully to avert his fate. She turned to the other women, but ignored the protesting Sadie. Show More Sentences Then from the dusky cloud by the wall sounded a voice feebly protesting. Mrs. Westgate began confessing and protesting, declaring and expounding. Porter firmly by the arm and hurried the weakly protesting old gentleman off in the direction of Cape Town, fifteen hundred miles to the south. Emma amused herself by protesting that it was very extraordinary, indeed, and that she had not a syllable to say for him. Johnnie bent his back, and the bucksaw resumed its protesting skreek. To have met it with anger would have been of as little avail as the stamp of a protesting foot before the tremors of an earthquake. When Dr. Travis gripped his collar he let out a long, protesting howl. The TRS, too, is learnt to have decided not to vote on the pretext of protesting against the UPA government's indecisiveness on the Telangana issue. Nay, ma'am,' said Stephen Blackpool, staunchly protesting against the words that had been used, and instinctively addressing himself to Louisa, after glancing at her face. The Maoists have been protesting since May, when their leader Prachanda resigned as prime minister after his order to sack the army chief was countermanded by the president. After an instant of amazement, he sprang to her and clasped her in his arms, and she, against her will, and protesting voicelessly, stumbled into his embrace. Find more words! 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