Example sentences of "[adj] to protest [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight opposition partiescalled a general strike on Nov. 22 to protest against the government 's announcement on Nov. 5 that the country 's first democratic elections , originally set for the end of November , were being postponed until April 27 , 1993 |
| 2 | A large demonstration organized by the opposition was held on May 26 to protest at corruption and to call for the Prime Minister 's resignation . |
| 3 | Russian workers had much to protest against . |
| 4 | He agreed to preside over a public meeting of the inhabitants of Dundee to be held on 10 November 1819 to protest against ‘ the unprovoked , cruel and cowardly attack made on the people of Manchester ’ and ‘ to suggest the means most likely to lead to a reform of abuses ’ . |
| 5 | Representatives from state enterprise unions defied a ban on political gatherings and convened in Bangkok on March 21 to protest at an NPKA plan to amend the Labour Relations Act and dissolve all 61 state enterprise unions and prevent new ones from being formed . |
| 6 | First of all , children were likely to protest about their parents ' departure . |
| 7 | The lifts were for transporting patients too sick to protest to departments on higher floors . |
| 8 | They have been quick to protest at having their profits squeezed , but , Mackenzie concedes , ‘ it 's all the work we can get in the present market ’ . |
| 9 | Though strongly deploring the rebellion , he wrote to James II to protest against the brutalities of Judge Jeffreys and Colonel Kirke . |
| 10 | Various factions of the Communist Party of Nepal organized general strikes on May 3 and May 6 to protest against the government 's violent response to a previous general strike held on April 6 [ see p. 38867 ] . |
| 11 | More than 100,000 people demonstrated in Paris on Jan. 25 to protest against the rise of right-wing extremism and racism in France and elsewhere in Europe . |
| 12 | A nationwide one-hour strike of 2,000,000 Solidarity trade union members was mounted on Jan. 13 to protest at energy price rises imposed on Jan. 1 and at the fall in the standard of living . |
| 13 | The hunger strike launched by Palestinian political prisoners on Sept. 27 to protest at conditions in Israeli prisons continued until mid-October [ see p. 39117 for start of hunger strike ] . |
| 14 | At least 50,000 UDF supporters staged a demonstration in Sofia on March 9 to protest at the continuing near-monopoly of the Bulgarian Communist Party over the press . |
| 15 | Lawyers went on strike from Nov. 9 to protest at what the bar association said were the arbitrary arrests of four of its members in North-West Province . |
| 16 | Radji of was disinclined to protest as the Shah wished . |
| 17 | LEAKED memoranda from the Department of the Environment were yesterday used by Labour to protest at the alleged abuse of civil service time to cost Labour 's programme . |
| 18 | Although the precise aims and composition of RARA remained unclear , the organization appeared to have been formed in 1986 to protest against the " criminal policies " of the Netherlands authorities towards asylum seekers . |
| 19 | The most influential of these groups was the Bhutan People 's Party ( BPP ) , which organized a series of large demonstrations in southern Bhutan in September 1990 to protest against Drukpa domination and to demand political reforms [ see p. 37711 ] . |
| 20 | University teachers began a 48-hour strike on May 19 to protest against these events and the arrest of several hundred students . |
| 21 | The trash , getting ready to protest at this change in plans and then his jaw dropping at his first sight of Lucy ; getting into the cab with him , knowing what she was doing but somehow feeling that she was watching it all from somewhere else . |
| 22 | ( In the same way , the rappers NWA — Niggas With Attitude — are entitled to protest at the racism of other uses of nigger by white people . |
| 23 | Amarabout , a Zaidani , turned up and toured the streets in his Mercedes ; Sulaiman Musbah and his brother and some other Zuwaya went to Benghazi to protest about the irresponsible withdrawal of the police . |