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7 sentences with 'protests'

Example sentences and phrases with the word protests and other words derived from it.


• « US President Truman insisted, against the bitter protests of the British and French, that West Germany be allowed to rearm to help strengthen the anti-Soviet alliance. »
• « An attempted counter-revolution led by Soviet hardliners failed in the face of mass protests in Moscow, and Russia held its first free elections since the February Revolution of 1917. »
• « There were some anti-war protests in July, organised mostly by the socialist parties in the name of socialist internationalism, but once war was declared, these protests abruptly ceased. »
• « Whereas Lutheranism and Calvinism had arisen as protests against the perceived moral and doctrinal failings of the Catholic Church, the English Reformation came about because of the selfish desires of a king. »
• « What was to become the most emblematic uprising against authority in the European youth movement began in a filthy Paris suburb called Nanterre. There, the newly opened and poorly designed university faced student protests over a policy that forbade male students from visiting women's dormitories. »
• « Mass protests finally forced the issue in 1905. The ruler Muzaffar al-Din Shah signed on his deathbed a 'Basic Law' creating a parliamentary regime, and in 1907 his successor Muhammad Ali Shah signed a supplement to the law introducing civil equality and the recognition that national sovereignty derived from the people. »
• « Peaceful protests before the war increased in intensity during the war, and afterwards (partly due to the financial devastation of the war), a critical mass of British politicians finally conceded that India would have to be granted independence in the near future. The British state set the date for independence as 18 July 1947. »

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