The phrase "and protested the first" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is expressing dissent or disagreement regarding a specific initial point or statement.
Example: "During the meeting, she raised her hand and protested the first suggestion made by the committee."
Alternatives: "and objected to the first" or "and opposed the first".
Greenport adopted a pro-environment stance in a village resolution two years ago, but not before Mr. Keating of Rainforest Relief said he and local environmentalists protested the first phase of the Greenport waterfront plan.
On the other side, union leaders have called for a massive mobilisation for two more days of strikes and protests, the first on Thursday, then on 6 November.
This gave it a political significance which, even as the politics has changed, it has never lost.Mr Tendulkar is not, in this long history of cricket as affirmation, struggle and protest, the first great Indian batsman.
Dissenting state oil firm employees rocked Venezuela with a series of work stoppages and protests; the first disruptions to key refining and export operations were reported as the revolt hit five weeks.
I was one of the people who used to go out and protest the regime at first.
He says, in his own defense, that there wasn't a lot he could do to revive a system held hostage to a teachers' union with more than a million members, many of whom took to the streets to protest the first — and last — bill he introduced.
In a 1977 book, "The Power of the Positive Woman," Schlafly reprinted in its entirety one of the organization's pamphlets, "Revolution: Tomorrow Is NOW," which proposed, among other things, "an end to militarism, narcissism and sexually stereotyped advertising" for children's toys and a public veil-burning to "protest the second class status of women in all churches".
Syracuse fans, coaches, and players protested the selection of the third-place Hokies ahead of second-place Syracuse.
At one public hearing, members of the Latin Kings gang expressed support for Charas, and Charas supporters loudly protested the city's first attempt to auction the building, in 1997 (no bidders appeared).
USA Networks Inc. agreed to buy Ticketmaster Group for about $29.70 a share in stock, or $400 million, raising its bid 17percentt after Ticketmaster executives and investors protested that the first offer was too low.
