Sentence examples for conference protesting from inspiring English sources
But parents and education advocates, who held a news conference protesting the measure on the steps of the courthouse before the meeting, disagreed.
"Mr. Zuma, you and your government don't represent me," he told a news conference, protesting the authorities' failure to issue a visa to the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan religious leader, whom the archbishop had invited to his 80th birthday party.
Morgan is now in talks with GLAAD and planning to attend a press conference protesting the "Don't Say Gay" bill with them in Tennessee.
According to the New York Times: "In 2000, a group of more than 1,000 demonstrators carrying signs that said 'Against the New World Order' smashed the windows of a McDonald's franchise here in Davos just down the road from the conference, protesting open trade policies espoused by then-President Bill Clinton, who was speaking at the event".
For Stearns Wear, which sells the transparent polyester Spit Sock Hood, the World Trade Organization conference protests in Seattle brought a massive order from the city's police department.
A large contingent of traditionalist clergy boycotted the conference -- protesting the issue of gay priests and bishops, and Bishop Gene Robinson, the first openly gay man to become an Anglican bishop, was not invited.
In November, he was among 100 people arrested in Washington when they blocked the entrance at a Roman Catholic bishops' conference while protesting the church's stance on gay rights.
This prompted a real-life response from Blair in a conference speech, protesting that the reality of the relationship with America was necessarily more complicated than anything in a Richard Curtis film (you're telling me).
But they are threatening to boycott the conference to protest what they see as fainthearted international support.
The British physicist and cosmologist Stephen W. Hawking also pulled out of the conference to protest Israel's policies toward the Palestinians.
An association of doctors and dentists—staunchly conservative folk banded together to hold a press conference to protest against the bill on December 5th.
