protest
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Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin boycotted the World Cup final this month in protest at a number of controversial moves.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
She characterised the uprising as more than "merely an ordinary student protest".
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
“The frontier labs are hoarding intelligence,” said Mahesh Lambe, an AI researcher who attended the protest.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
It’s the latest protest case that has unraveled for the U.S. attorney’s office in L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
Every Sunday morning, our congregation would pray for the safety of our leaders, and for these courageous children and their families engaging in sit-ins and other direct forms of protest.
From "Reaching for the Moon" by Katherine Johnson
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“I think it changed my entire life trajectory,” Almosawi, a former Cornell student, said of the campus protests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's carefully built image of invincibility is facing its toughest test yet, analysts say, after his government backed down in the face of youth-led protests over exam irregularities and jobs prospects.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
It has also attracted droves of new members, many of whom were baptized in the campus protests the way a previous generation was during the Vietnam War.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026
In the words of 22-year-old Sakhi, a student activist in Delhi, "for the first time, it felt like we can make things happen through protests".
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Just like with the dishes, Dad protests for a moment, then gives in.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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Inside parliament, meanwhile, the opening day of the monsoon session was repeatedly adjourned as opposition MPs protested over the alleged paper leak and other issues.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
You have protested masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in your neighborhoods.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
Already on Thursday, around a thousand people protested Fedorov's removal in Kyiv and there were protests too in other cities.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
When legislators proposed a bill arguing that the public shoreline extended 10 feet beyond the high-tide line, for example, landowners protested.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
“I am not having a tough time,” Ella protested.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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The protesters, who call themselves cockroaches, have been protesting for a month now.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
More than a thousand actors and producers sent an open letter protesting the merger in April.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
"When you have lightning less than three miles away that’s a mandatory evacuation," a US Secret Service officer said sternly to a family that was protesting.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
Since early May, workers and Indigenous communities have been protesting Bolivia's worst economic crisis in decades and calling for center-right President Rodrigo Paz to resign.
From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026
The judge agreed with the company owners and told strikers that they must stop protesting and return to the factory, or they would lose their jobs.
From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell
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