Sentence examples for a widespread protest from inspiring English sources

And in the United States, it is part of a widespread protest against perceived restrictions on First Amendment rights.

Since March, Syria has been gripped by a widespread protest movement against the government of Mr. Assad, whose family has ruled with an iron fist for four decades.

Mr Tudor, who blames the country's ills on Gypsies, Jews and ethnic-Hungarians, appeared to benefit from a widespread protest by voters unhappy with economic stagnation.

But he didn't mention the other possibility — that, when a President is backed by both the military and the police, a widespread protest could end like Rabaa rather than like Tahrir.

His sermons led to a widespread protest movement among church leaders, the strongest protest against a Nazi policy up until that point.

VICE News found those four words buried in a new edition of Guantanamo's "standard operating procedure" governing hunger strikes and force-feedings (a.k.a. long-term non-religious fasts and enteral feedings), which was drafted in the aftermath of a widespread protest that dominated much of 2013.

Obama's most recent unvarnished apology came in February of last year when he told Afghan President Hamid Karzai that he was sorry for the involvement of U.S. service members in the burning of copies of the Koran, an incident that provoked widespread protest in the country at a delicate time in the war and in his own reelection campaign.

A leader of the widespread protest movement to bring back the girls has reportedly been arrested.

Although the Colombian government insists the arrest is legitimate, it seems beyond coincidental that it comes at a time when there is widespread protest in Colombia, led by Ballesteros and a committee of nine others.

Despite widespread protest and a national petition with more than 250,000 signatures, David Cameron is determined to push ahead.

He has been inspired by the necropolitics of the former dictator, Ferdinand Marcos, whom he has given a hero's burial, against widespread protest, in the national Tomb of Heroes (Libingan ng Mga Bayani).