Sentence examples for bit of protest from inspiring English sources

It is a pity it needed a bit of protest to get them to the table".

The right-wing press has already gone to town on McDonnell for saying, "Sometimes, in addition to parliamentary debates, we do need a bit of protest in this country", but such an admission should not be taken lightly.

Just one day before the Reseda Boulevard Starbucks intervention, he led 40 disciples to a Los Angeles Wal-Mart for a bit of protest theater known as a Whirl.

After a bit of protest from the team's rabid promotions director, Frank Bernard Eugene Levyy), the Knights' cosmically unflappable Coach Wagner Robert Forsterr), goes along with the idea of having Calvin join the team, fueled by the enthusiasm of the audience and television commentators.

They did however permit the broadcast of a scene immediately thereafter in which Jesus defecates on the American flag (a clever bit of protest by writers Matt Stone and Trey Parker).

Of course, that is a bit of protesting too much, as this is exactly the time when potshots at front-runners — which "Argo" has steadfastly become — are common, as any studio executive worth his or her contracted-trade ads knows.

The Pac-12, much maligned as it has slipped toward irrelevance on the elite level in recent years, staged a bit of a protest about that.

Asked if that record ever led to a job offer to coach high school or college ball, Garfinkel, with a bit of mock protest, said, "No, and 60 years later, I'm still waiting for my first".

"I joined as a bit of a protest against what I heard," he said.

Still disenchanting, but not at all unwarranted, athletes are also enjoying a bit of a protest on Twitter.

He believes "everybody from working class circumstances is fed up about the way Britain has been clobbered by the Tories, and I'm hoping there'll be a bit of a protest vote for me".