Example sentences of "to protest [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McNair gives no authority for this assertion , but it must rest upon the right of any State to protest against interference with its internationally protected rights . |
| 2 | A FORMER miner who armed himself with a toy gun to protest against pit closures walked free from court yesterday . |
| 3 | Is the Minister aware that it is extremely unfortunate that once again Labour Members of Parliament in the House of Commons have to protest against racism , Nazi hooliganism and Nazi thugs operating on German soil ? |
| 4 | Lithuanians cherish their Baltic coastline — in 1988 they joined hands with Latvians and Estonians to form a human chain along its full length to protest against pollution . |
| 5 | Mary Benson recalls Orton Chirwa in Britain 40 years ago when he came to this country to protest against imposition of the Central African Federation : ‘ How vividly one recalls Orton , the slight , bespectacled , amused young lawyer who proved to be an articulate , passionate speaker whose wit enlivened public meetings from London to Edinburgh , while Banda , then a GP in Willesden , embarrassed organisers with his tub-thumping rhetoric — Banda the medical doctor , who was to subject Orton and Vera Chirwa to such extremes of suffering , remaining impervious to every appeal and protest on their behalf . |
| 6 | The clashes , on November 24 last year , followed marches organised by the National Union of Students in central London to protest against Government plans to replace maintenance grants with top-up loans . |
| 7 | Like other nuns in the community , Sister Teresa taught literacy to the peasants and had become involved in the peasant marches of the early 1980s organized to protest against poverty and violence in the region . |
| 8 | v. Hearn the defendants , in order to protest against apartheid , threatened to instruct the members of their union to commit breaches of contract in relation to broadcast by satellite to South Africa of the 1977 Cup Final . |
| 9 | The Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) news agency reported on Aug. 14 that two of China 's most prominent dissidents , Wang Juntao and Chen Zeming , had begun a hunger strike to protest against prison conditions . |
| 10 | Sarah Morgan was sounding diffident but resolute , and as Morgan opened his mouth to protest in exasperation the doorbell rang . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The trade union federations called a general strike for 13 May to protest at government repression . |
| 13 | Doug Henderson , Labour candidate , has written to Energy Secretary John Wakeham to protest at electricity price rises in the North . |
| 14 | In Chile , they provide a source of protest against the military government ; in Bolivia , the miners , wives fought alongside their husbands to get better working conditions and pay ; Nicaraguan women have formed a distinct group within the Sandinista revolutionary movement ; and in Brazil , women 's groups have formed to protest at price rises in food and other essentials . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Although there is no statutory right to protest by procession and assembly in their domestic law , the British have such a right under the European Convention on Human Rights . |