remonstrance

Example Sentences

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My own wife, sipping at her Oregon pinot noir, strikes a precise replica of the Cersei smile as she bangs out e-mail remonstrances to her colleagues.

From The New Yorker

So do I. But our remonstrance seems futile against a people whose false gods include the biblical golden calf of capitalism itself.

From Salon

He records his amazement at the concern expressed by the public, one letter of remonstrance which he received addressing him as “You Brute.”

From New York Times

Marxist accounts are concerned with the distribution of the goods that work makes; the utopian remonstrance is concerned with the nature of work itself.

From The New Yorker

His order penalizing anyone who harbored Quakers provoked 31 residents of Flushing on Long Island — none of them Quakers themselves — to sign a remonstrance, a collective appeal to redress their grievance.

From New York Times