protest
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The BBC has contacted the Election Commission for comment on Tuesday's protest.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
ZVERNEC, Albania—On the doorstep of a Jared Kushner-linked development site on the Adriatic Sea, a group of determined villagers set out in late May to protest barbed-wire fencing preventing their access to a coastal peninsula.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
That response evoked for me Gertrude’s remark in “Hamlet” that “The lady doth protest too much, methinks,” but so be it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
A man has been charged after a protest over migrant arrivals in a Hampshire town.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Dad looked so pleased with himself that I didn’t have the heart to protest.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
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At least 488 people were arrested and 43 members of the security forces wounded in the protests Tuesday, which saw a quarter of a million people mass across France, the interior ministry said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
But in 2022, protests broke out across the country as inflation surged and Sri Lanka ran out of fuel, food and medicine.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
Investigators, for instance, would not be able to conduct searches based solely on protests or other 1st Amendment-protected activities, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
In India, a project like China’s Three Gorges Dam would likely become ensnared in endless lawsuits and protests by civil society groups.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
He asked if he was, in fact, the same Theodore Graham who had been arrested during the protests at Fort Lawton.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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The Garvaghy Road had been part of the Drumcree parade route but by the mid 1990s nationalist residents protested against it.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Thousands of auto industry workers in Germany protested against huge swaths of job cuts and state industrial policy Monday, following a call to mobilize by labor union IG Metall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 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
“Oh yeah, tell that to Sleeping Beauty,” Mario protested teasingly.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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These critical nuances haven’t reached the protesting masses yet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
Families of the disappeared are protesting, demanding international investigation into Chemmani mass grave.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
"We've really had enough," protesting fisherman Tony Dalmasso told AFP in Nice.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Local residents are organizing, protesting and digging through records.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
The women, who were held for three days, became the first suffragists to go to jail for protesting in support of women’s right to vote.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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