What is "protests"

Usage examples of "protests".

But die protests which such facts normally have evoked could not make themselves widely or effectively felt.

A survey by the Urban Research Corporation, for the first six months of 1969 only, and for only 232 of the nations two thousand institutions of higher education, showed that at least 215,000 students had participated in campus protests, that 3,652 had been arrested, that 956 had been suspended or expelled.

I knew, however, that after all the protests and the Moratorium, American public opinion would be seriously divided by any military escalation of the war.

There were protests against the way police treated women, interrogated them, insulted them, when women filed rape charges.

The Carter administration in 1977, responding to anti-American protests in Panama, decided to renegotiate the treaty.

For the first time in all the years that the country had celebrated Columbus Day, there were nationwide protests against honoring a man who had kidnapped, enslaved, mutilated, murdered the natives who greeted his arrival with gifts and friendship.

In some of the villages they had left, men and women crept back toward their former lives, to the extent of talking about electing their Councils again, but most eyed the sea nervously and made pale-cheeked protests that they meant to hold to the oaths they had been made to swear even if they did not understand them.

She did not wait for him to renew his protests, but went to Ingtar instead.