10 sentences with “protest”

Amid the confusion caused by the riots, the police hardly knew what to do to calm the protest.

Despite the cold weather, the crowd gathered in the square to protest against social injustice.

Thus, what began as a protest movement against corruption within the Church quickly became a number of widespread and increasingly militant branches of Christianity itself.

The workers of Paris rose up in protest and a series of bloody street battles called the June Days broke out in which thousands of Parisian workers were killed or imprisoned.

By the 1520s most Lutherans were reform clerics, who saw Luther's movement as an effective and radical protest against all the problems that had plagued the church for centuries.

Late the day before, a protest march against immigrants had ended in a terrible riot: stones and firebombs were blown up, some policemen were injured, windows were smashed and cars were burned.

By 1908 they had moved from heckling to stone-throwing and other forms of protest, including destroying paintings in museums and, on one occasion, attacking male politicians with whips on a golf course.

Within a few years, as the anti-war protest campaign grew in France itself, many soldiers, both in Algeria and elsewhere in France and the French territories, became disgusted with what they saw as weak-kneed vacillation on the part of Republican politicians.

On International Women's Day in February 1917 (using the Eastern Orthodox calendar still in use at the time - it was March in the West), women workers in St Petersburg demonstrated against the Tsar's government to protest about food prices, which had skyrocketed because of the war.

In the most spectacular and tragic act of protest, a suffragette named Emily Davison threw herself under British King George V's horse during the 1913 Derby (the hugely popular national horse race) and was killed; it was later discovered that she had stuffed her dress with leaflets demanding the vote for women.