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Example sentences for "protest against"

  • All my life, I have protested against it, I protest against it again and I shall protest against it so long as I live.

  • The Circular merely asserts that if it is, it is our bounden duty to protest against that.

  • But before Santa Rosa and his friends could carry out their schemes, the first sign of protest against tyranny in Turin was given from a different quarter.

  • But, if Charles Albert refused to listen to Mazzini's appeal, he had no alternative but to protest against it; and he did so by banishing Mazzini, under pain of imprisonment if he should return to Italy.

  • A second letter more emphatic than the first was sent to 350 of the largest newspapers in the country, enclosing Mrs. Catt's protest against the "picketing.

  • This convention was called to protest against "class legislation" and demand that women should be included.

  • I protest against it--protest in the name of my constituents.

  • At the same time, I protest against it, as being no part of the constitutional proceedings of the Senate of the United States.

  • You have opened my eyes to the danger of their laying such dry and cheap ravings to our account, unless we, “as Germans,” protest against it.

  • It is good and necessary to protest against War; but at the same time, reason and experience teach that we must, with equal zeal, protest against other great evils, the accumulation of which makes for war and not for peace.

  • They become a protest merely as every act of loyalty to truth becomes a protest against error.

  • He revolted from the sacramentalism of the Church of England, which seemed to hold that in the imposition of hands in ordination divine grace trickled down through a bishop's finger ends, and he felt moved to protest against it.

  • Here and there meetings were hurriedly called to protest against recognition[122].

  • If he considers the State of Georgia as one of our tender parents, I protest against it.

  • Challis brushed it away by joining in a murmur of half-protest against Judith's question.

  • It was necessary to protest against a remark something somewhere had made, that his own home need not suffer by contrast.

  • A protest against it signed by eminent scientific authorities had been published; but Sir F.

  • Marconi scandal by moving to reduce the Premier's salary as a protest against a recent refusal by him to warn Civil servants against speculation in stocks.

  • It was designed primarily as a protest against “the ecclesiastical jurisdiction and Ordination,” i.

  • He had retained the elevation at Wittenberg for a while as a protest against Carlstadt’s attacks on the Sacrament, at least such was the reason he gave in May, 1542, to Landgrave Philip, who wanted its abrogation.

  • Emilia had cried it out to herself My engagement to Mr. Pericles is that I am not to write No nose to the hero, no moral to the tale Nor can a protest against coarseness be sweepingly interpreted Oh!

  • I protest against it as subversive of the common right of all citizens to be condemned only upon a fair and impartial trial, according to law and evidence, before the country.

  • I protest against it in the name of that Constitution which is not only my own shield of protection and defense, but that of every American citizen.

  • I protest against it as destructive of all the comity of intercourse between the departments of this Government, and destined sooner or later to lead to conflicts fatal to the peace of the country and the integrity of the Constitution.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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