Example sentences of "to protest at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As part of the same struggle against destitution , meetings were organised to protest at increasing food prices and profiteering ; a large attendance at Canning Town Public Hall heard Sylvia Pankhurst and resolved to campaign for government price controls and votes for women ( SE 27 February 15 ) . |
| 2 | A teacher , employed by Orkney Islands Council , she said there was an atmosphere of great insecurity amongst council employees about there right to protest at that time . |
| 3 | Nationally NATFHE had voted by two to one in favour of a strike to protest at new contracts being introduced without consultation . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Even John Stuart Mill who , as one would expect , greatly admired Socrates , describing him in On Liberty , rather extravagantly , as " the head and prototype of all subsequent teachers of virtue " and " the acknowledged master of all the eminent thinkers who have since lived , " was moved to protest at this probably misplaced generosity : " The Athenian Many , of whose irritability and suspicion we hear so much , are rather to be accused of too easy and good-natured a confidence , when we reflect that they had living in the midst of them the very men who , on the first show of an opportunity , were ready to compass the subversion of the democracy . " |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | And when she opened her mouth to protest at this treatment she saw that her objections would have to wait . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Loretta was about to protest at this arrangement — she had not yet recovered from her irritation with Geoffrey — but decided it would be more diplomatic to follow Bridget into the kitchen . |