protest
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While all his experiences up to 2016 were instructive, they couldn’t buffer the shock and disgust of the backlash to his protest.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2026
The truth is that all skinfolk ain’t kinfolk, and if he wasn’t aware before the protest, he certainly is now.
From Salon ● Sep. 29, 2026
The spokesperson said not everyone present at the protest had been committing a criminal offence.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
She said she supported "the right of the Garvaghy Road residents to protest against this unwanted sectarian march".
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Oslak growled a protest but Hord warned him back.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Nuñez said these protests, with at least 200,000 participants reported, mostly went without incident.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
The protests on Tuesday came the same day as professionals from public sectors - including teachers and firefighters - also demonstrated against planned budget cuts in France.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Serbia's long-time populist President Aleksandar Vucic resigned Sunday to run for prime minister in October snap elections after nearly two years of student-led protests that had been pressing for just such a poll.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
"I have decided to pardon 49 people, 23 of them in connection with the terrible events we have gone through over the past year and a half," Vucic said, referring to the protests.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
The hot spring that began in Orangeburg stretched into another hot summer, with angry protests flaring up both in the black community and before various city bodies.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
Asheville has backed reparations for slavery, protested Immigration and Customs Enforcement and banned discrimination based on gender identity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Some 2,000 people protested the export ban -- imposed by the European Union due to the highly contagious small ruminant plague -- in front of the Romanian government building in Bucharest.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
Filippi protested, he alleges, and was later blamed by Kettle and the chief financial officer for mismanaging the contract.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
At this point, even pacifying the thousands of fans who protested against the club's ownership before the Old Trafford defeat by 10-man City looks beyond them.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
If she protested now, everyone would think she was trying to hide something.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
Separately, more than 100 people have been arrested while protesting against the crackdown in Turkey's biggest cities over the past two days.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
Let’s see Erin Brockovich, or Julia Roberts for that matter, protesting in a spacesuit.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
On the ground, though, the people protesting in Albania are against something much bigger.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
She has obtained more than 2,200 signatures on an online petition protesting its relocation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
In a victory for the civil rights movement, Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that states cannot use trespass laws against individuals protesting state-mandated segregation policies.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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