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picket
noun as in person who demonstrates for cause
noun as in person acting as guard
verb as in protest against, for cause
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If the 5.5% increase is not implemented, Ms Speed said there would be a "very difficult environment" with health care workers "on the picket lines post Christmas".
He was also politically active on social media, reposting content from Russian opposition figures and occasionally sharing his own political content, including a video in which he can be seen holding a solo picket in support of late opposition politician Alexei Navalny.
Guillén: I think it’s a good lesson for everyone in life that sometimes we want something so bad — like 2.5 kids, white picket fence, marriage at a certain age — but some things just are not for everyone.
Civilian clerks sat behind wooden desks, and a security control picket was manned by a single prison guard.
Passages that inspired Christians to open settlement houses to shelter poor city dwellers and join union picket lines to fight against decrepit working conditions also formed the core of Martin Luther King Jr.'s argument that pastors cannot preach the glories of heaven while ignoring the earthly hell of racialized oppression.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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