protest

protest
01. Several hundred people gathered to [protest] the government's decision to cut the education budget.
02. Police have arrested a number of anti-logging [protesters] who were blocking a road today.
03. Truck drivers staged a one-day strike to [protest] against rising fuel prices.
04. The students staged a [protest] march in front of the Legislature in anger at rising tuition fees.
05. Boxer Ruben "Hurricane" Carter [protested] his innocence of the charge of murder for many years before finally being released from jail.
06. The British government sent the foreign Ambassador home in [protest] against that country's arrest of a British citizen on charges of spying.
07. Worldwide [protests] against the French government are being organized in response to their announcement of the resumption of nuclear testing in the South Pacific.
08. Generally, it is those among the discontented who can best afford the risks of collective action who tend to launch [protest] movements.
09. Jose Narosky once remarked that we [protest] against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause.
10. The Intifada was a revolt that began in December 1987 by Palestinian Arabs to [protest] Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
11. In 1994, musician Paul McCartney sent back his razor, shaving cream, and other products to the Gillette Co. to [protest] the manufacturer's use of animals in their product testing.
12. In 1989, hundreds of thousands of people in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia linked arms to form a human chain stretching almost 650 miles to [protest] the Soviet take-over of the Baltics in 1940.
13. In 1995, the President of France unleashed a storm of worldwide [protest] with the announcement that nuclear testing would be resumed in French Polynesia.
14. In 1969, student Jan Palach set fire to himself in Wenceslas Square in Prague in [protest] at the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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