protest
Example Sentences
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As Woodside’s CEO, the engineer was forced to confront a rowdy environmental movement that regularly staged protests at the company’s headquarters in Perth—and targeted her home.
By the next month, immigrants inside the 2,500-capacity facility launched a hunger strike protesting conditions.
From Los Angeles Times
Slovakia's constitutional court on Wednesday announced that it had suspended a law abolishing the country's whistleblower protection office, after protests in recent days.
From Barron's
That is now in doubt, though a commission spokesman said EU leaders will discuss the matter at a summit in Brussels Thursday -- as thousands of farmers converge on the city in protest.
From Barron's
An eighth prisoner is described by supporters of intermittently joining the protest but then breaking it, due to an underlying health condition.
From BBC
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