Sentence examples for claimed to be protesting from inspiring English sources

Oldfield claimed to be protesting elitism.

While the group claims to be protesting against Islamist extremism, the movement is widely accused of harnessing Islamophobia as a means of spreading racism.

On a flight to San Francisco, a woman who claimed to be sick protested when asked to give up her blanket an hour before landing.

Ralph Napierski is a self-appointed bishop of a made-up church who claimed to be lodging a protest about child abuse, but his 15 seconds of fame didn't offer much of a platform.

Last week, U.S. officials pushed for the militias to take a backseat in operations against ISIS, while the militias claimed to be stepping aside to protest U.S. entrance into the battle.

Pakzad says that among the pictures of the hotel were images from past protests which claimed to be of Mahabad, and which made the events seem much bigger and more violent than they actually were.

As Lamerton told it, it's a kind of weird, extremely problematic protest: She claimed to be in a bitter feud with her local homeowner's association—something to do with landscaping and decided to strike back by filling her yard with atrocious anti-Semitic Halloween decor.

When the play, "Ganesh Versus the Third Reich, " was staged in Australia in 2011, Hindus there protested, claiming to be wounded by the comic representation of the elephant-headed god, the length of whose trunk is used in one scene to allude to a vital male organ.

Ms Talloneau claimed workers were protesting because they wanted the same rights as their counterparts on the mainland, such as social security benefits.

Jones claims he is protesting only against radical Muslims and is not against all who practice Islam.

Nobody has a better claim to be a protest candidate.