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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  • Protest — Pro*test , v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Protested}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Protesting}.] [F. protester, L. protestari, pro before + testari to be a witness, testis a witness. See {Testify}.] 1. To affirm in a public or formal manner; to bear witness; to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Protest — Pro*test , v. t. 1. To make a solemn declaration or affirmation of; to proclaim; to display; as, to protest one s loyalty. [1913 Webster] I will protest your cowardice. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Protest — Pro test, n. [Cf. F. prot[^e]t, It. protesto. See {Protest}, v.] 1. A solemn declaration of opinion, commonly a formal objection against some act; especially, a formal and solemn declaration, in writing, of dissent from the proceedings of a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Protest — (v. lat.), 1) Widerspruch, Protestation; 2) beim Wechselgeschäft eine öffentliche Urkunde, welche zum Beweise dessen errichtet wird, daß der Wechselverpflichtete, ungeachtet der gehörigen Erfüllung der Wechselverbindlichkeiten, von Seiten des… …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • Protest — (Protestation, lat.), Einsprache, Widerrede, insbes. Verwahrung gegen nachteilige Deutung eigner Handlungen; Einspruch gegen Handlungen oder Erklärungen dritter; im Wechselrecht die amtliche Beurkundung gewisser Tatsachen, für die diese Form der… …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Protést — (lat.), Widerspruch, Verwahrung, Rechtsvorbehalt; im Wechselrecht notarielle Urkunde über verweigerte Honorierung eines vorschriftsmäßig präsentierten Wechsels und den Rechtsvorbehalt des Wechselinhabers (Protesterhebung); im Seerecht (See P.)… …   Kleines Konversations-Lexikon

  • Protest — eines Wechsels, Beweisurkunde darüber, daß der in der Wechseltratte bezeichnete Zahler den Zahlungsauftrag nicht annimmt oder nicht bezahlen kann …   Herders Conversations-Lexikon

  • Protest — This article is about public demonstrations. For sea protests before a notary public, see Sea protest. For the Oxford based pro animal testing group, see Pro Test. March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom A protest is an expression of objection,… …   Wikipedia

  • Protest — Der Ausdruck Protest (lat.) bedeutet: Protestor (spätlateinisch): öffentlich als Zeuge auftreten, beweisen; öffentlich aussagen, laut verkünden Widerspruch, Einspruch und Demonstration/Kundgebung im privaten wie auch öffentlichen Bereich… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • protest — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from protester Date: 15th century 1. a solemn declaration of opinion and usually of dissent: as a. a sworn declaration that payment of a note or bill has been refused and that all responsible signers or debtors… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • protest — protestable, adj. protester, protestor, n. protestingly, adv. protestive, adj. n. /proh test/; v. /preuh test , proh test/, n. 1. an expression or declaration of objection, disapproval, or dissent, often in opposition to something a person is… …   Universalium

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