8 sentences with 'protest'
Example sentences and phrases with the word protest and other words derived from it.
• « 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. »
• « 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. »
• « 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. »
• « 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 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. »
• « 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. »
• « 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. »
• « 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. »