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

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

When Cobb Sheriff Neil Warren witnessed the young women’s remonstrance, he was stunned at the lack of respect for the flag, the national anthem and the men and women who serve this nation.

From Washington Times