Sentence examples for by protestations of from inspiring English sources

Pretensions of privilege are replaced by protestations of  innocence or tactical admissions of guilt.

A call about Mr. Percoco frequently yields a hurried clarification that the conversation is off the record, followed by protestations of his gentle nature.

Social Affairs Senator Anja Stahmann was also unimpressed by protestations of tradition.

In terms of recovering a sense of agency (in a conflict characterised by protestations of powerlessness by political and military authorities alike), the desire to do (and be seen to do) something was expressed and assuaged by transporting and incorporating some of the need and distress into the UK where it could be tended to and made better.

That's why this campaign has been marked on both sides by more protestations of faith than were ever provoked by Torquemada.

Unmoved by his protestations of decrepit limbs, Mansur said he could be carried into the central precinct on a litter, a mode of transport generally reserved for women.

What would he have given to fix his dancers in suspended animation, in mid-pirouette or midair, and to stalk between them, adjusting the angles of their feet and the tilt of their chins, unbothered by any protestations of pain?

Restive Conservative backbenchers seem to be chafing unhappily from the constraints of coalition, and when they look at what the opinion polls are telling them, they conclude that voters are no longer impressed by their protestations of coalition compromises in the national interest.

Nasser was not fooled by such protestations of concern.

A rash of deadly paramilitary attacks in the days following Clinton's waiver shows that the death squads are undeterred by U.S. protestations of support for human rights.

One of our participants, for example, reported that although he was affected by the protestations of the virtual Learner, he wasn't too upset, because she didn't protest enough, did not for example scream at and insult him nor writhe in agony in the chair.