Example sentences of "[noun] to protest at " in BNC.
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| 1 | LOWER Ormeau residents staged a demonstration on Saturday to protest at a Royal Black Preceptory march past the bookies shop where five Catholics were murdered by loyalist terrorists last year . |
| 2 | But disabled people gathered in Duke Street during the ceremony to protest at the scheme . |
| 3 | And when she opened her mouth to protest at this treatment she saw that her objections would have to wait . |
| 4 | Isabel opened her mouth to protest at this cavalier treatment of her clothing , only to shut it again in alarm when he took a step forward and leaned over her , bracing his hands on the mattress and trapping her between them . |
| 5 | About 40 residents turned up at Darlington 's Feethams Cricket Club to protest at the plans . |
| 6 | The trade union federations called a general strike for 13 May to protest at government repression . |
| 7 | COMMUTERS stood on tracks disrupting London-bound trains yesterday in protest at British Rail 's ‘ scorched earth ’ policy for eliminating the perennial problem of leaves on the line More than 50 people at Carshalton , Surrey , swapped season tickets for placards to protest at the transformation of leafy tracksides into what one called a ‘ scene from Apocalypse Now ’ , the film about the Vietnam war which showed the effects of mass defoliation with napalm . |
| 8 | Doug Henderson , Labour candidate , has written to Energy Secretary John Wakeham to protest at electricity price rises in the North . |
| 9 | The rally , at the City Halls , Glasgow , will be attended by civil servants from the West of Scotland to protest at the Government 's market testing ( or privatisation ) programme . |
| 10 | France halted aid to Togo in February to protest at the killing of pro-democracy demonstrators by soldiers loyal to President Gnassingbé Eyadéma . |
| 11 | Then there were the Paris student riots , the Biafran conflict and scenes of devastating suffering and starvation ; Yasser Arafat became head of the PLO and enlisted thousands of young people into his army ; Muammar Gaddafi threw out the Libyan monarchy and installed himself as his nation 's leader and hero of terrorist factions everywhere ; the streets of Ulster became a battle zone with troops , fire bombs and unbelievable scenes of street-fighting ; Jan Palach , a twenty-one-year-old Czech student set fire to himself in Wenceslas Square to protest at the Soviet invasion of Prague . |
| 12 | In October 1966 the Derry Young Republican Association held an open-air meeting to protest at the eviction of a family from a house in Creggan . |
| 13 | By then , the women had all become firm trade union supporters , staged solidarity strikes with a number of other factories and political stoppages to protest at the arrest of important opposition leaders . |
| 14 | Nationally NATFHE had voted by two to one in favour of a strike to protest at new contracts being introduced without consultation . |
| 15 | I RANG the Israeli Embassy on Boxing Day to protest at their treatment of Palestinian deportees , only to find it closed until December 29 . |
| 16 | Fishermen have sailed along the Thames in convoy to Westminster to protest at plans to cut the time they can spend at sea . |
| 17 | There must surely be more acceptable ways to protest at the Turkish occupation of that part of the island . |
| 18 | ‘ The idea of the letter was to get patients to protest at the lack of central funding and to explain to health board general managers that these are services patients think should be provided , ’ Dr James said . |
| 19 | More than 100,000 miners held lighting strikes the following week to protest at inadequate safety precautions in Turkish mines ; the official 1989 accident statistics were 26 dead and 7,433 injured . |
| 20 | Mrs Linne Gunther , 41 , a divorcee , crashed her van through iron gates into the UN compound to protest at taxpayers ' having to pay for the Gulf war . |
| 21 | And he pleaded for the public to write to Premier John Major to protest at the move . |
| 22 | So , it came as something of a disappointment when a Ms Mel Chevannes , who ran a black supplementary school in the West Midlands , wrote to the Wolverhampton Express and Star to protest at my testing ‘ hypotheses that black people are ‘ happy-go-lucky or very physical in their outlook ’ ’ and that my aims were to ‘ damage even further the life chances of black children ’ ( 25 June 1980 ) . |
| 23 | Determined to maintain the authority of the president , in 1766 he overruled the appointment of a new steward ( who oversaw the domestic arrangements of the college ) made at a meeting presided over by the vice-president , having persuaded eight of the senior fellows to protest at the action and ruling that the proceedings were contrary to statute . |
| 24 | On March 1 a vigil was held in Sofia by several hundred people holding open umbrellas to protest at the failure of the authorities to fulfil Lilov 's promise to Annabel Markov . |
| 25 | Several hundred Tibetans , already worried by inflation , took to the streets to protest at the new measures . |
| 26 | K Thousands of coal miners marched through central London to protest at the Government 's bungled pit closures . |
| 27 | Health workers from North Yorkshire join a day of action in London to protest at the Government 's health policies . |
| 28 | He told the story of a loner , a drifter , a maverick boy who went from banner-waving at public meetings to protest at experiments on animals , all the way to incendiaries and assault and finally an attempted car bomb . |
| 29 | Given that conditions had changed greatly in forty years , and that ‘ the right to know ’ had in every walk of life assumed paramount importance , it seemed nevertheless unrealistic — even allowing for the vastly different scale of the conflict — for relatives of servicemen to protest at lack of information over but a few days or even hours . |
| 30 | He displayed his contempt for Hollywood at the awards ceremony by refusing to accept the gold statuette and sending an Indian girl in his stead to protest at the way the movie industry had treated the Red Man . |