Sentence examples for citizens protest from inspiring English sources
Increasingly, citizens protest or call referendums instead.
Another is to crack down on citizens' protest.
They are prepared to allow every oppressive dictatorship on the planet to say: "We're only following the British example" when outsiders and their own wretched citizens protest.
Norman Mailer, in The Armies of the Night (1968), recorded, in great personal detail but in a third-person narration, his part in a citizens' protest march on Washington, D.C.
Japan was hit by the dreadful Minamata disease, caused by mercury poisoning, in the late 1950s; that, and a series of other pollution disasters, gave rise first to citizens' protest movements, and then, belatedly, to new laws to control toxic effluent and air pollution.
"This is a citizens' protest against what we perceive as a huge real estate deal," said Catherine M. Fitzsimons, who hung the first "Don't Tread on Me" flag along Joralemon Street on May 1. "I don't call something with a huge hotel, conference center and restaurants a park".
The peace women were ordinary citizens, protesting at the violence engulfing their community.
The Japanese government has followed the recycling path, despite citizens' protests about possible safety risks.
In December 2010 Mr Lukashenka's security services brutalised citizens protesting against his rigged election.
"Rabaa is an open, peaceful sit-in of citizens protesting against the coup.
