remonstrance
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If you think the Flushing Remonstrance is a homeowner’s complaint to a plumber, think again.
From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2018
The Remonstrance is displayed there in an anteroom off the rotunda, which is dominated by a timely and towering backdrop that evokes its provenance: a 40-foot-high facade of a 17th-century gabled Dutch canal house.
From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2018
To cool tempers, Mr. Golar invoked the Flushing Remonstrance, the colonial document signed in defense of the Quakers, exhorting the project’s opponents to welcome people “who come in love unto us.”
From New York Times • Aug. 14, 2013
Along with others, he wrote the Flushing Remonstrance in 1657, which supported freedom of religion in the colonies and is considered to have informed the shaping of the First Amendment.
From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2012
Remonstrance on my part was either taken no notice of, or instantly checked.
From Medical Life in the Navy by Stables, Gordon
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