Sentence examples for a modest protest from inspiring English sources

Amnesty International held a modest protest near the hotel where Mr. Obama and his family were staying.

Panamanian human rights groups held a modest protest today on the same street where in 1979 they denounced the shah of Iran's asylum request.

MADRID — Every Thursday evening, in the middle of the Puerta del Sol, a small crowd gathers around an equestrian statue of King Carlos III to stage a modest protest.

She is the deputy director of the National Partnership for New Americans, an advocacy and service coalition for immigrant communities, and, in contact with other organizations, she arranged what they assumed would be a modest protest.

What started as a modest protest at the Bank of America building has swelled to near-daily Occupy San Francisco marches in the financial district, populated by families, businesses and union groups including National Nurses United and the labor union.

At the beginning, though, it was a modest protest of the kind I have devoted my own life to:  resisting a new downtown mall, the bulldozers advancing on Gezi Park, the last green space in that part of the old city.

The modest protest was just one of many pointing to a larger trend of activism led by fronterizxs — young folks who have lived their entire lives on the border and are increasingly joining boisterous, immigrant-led youth movements.

Still, as the modest protest march from the Lower Ninth Ward made clear, Mr. Bush remains the favored target of the fervent activist community that has blossomed here in the wake of the storm.

And even though this was a modest counter-protest in a modest city, it mattered – just as Birmingham had mattered in 1963, and Ferguson had mattered in 2014.

When Tatarstan, the core of the old Idel-Ural, tried to reintroduce the Latin alphabet in which the local Turkic language is most logically written, this was banned by the Kremlin.It is hard to match the modest protests by a loose movement consisting mainly of concerned philologists and ethnographers with the allergic reaction they prompt.

Students at universities all over Iran commemorated Student Day on Tuesday with modest protests within the confines of their campuses and on a scale far smaller than those in the months immediately following Mr. Ahmadinejad's re-election.