Sentence examples for conventional protest from inspiring English sources
It was an extension of a more conventional protest campaign initiated by trade unions and youth organisations against a proposed reform of French labour laws.
At one point, toward the end of the meeting, a photographer moved to the front of the room and tried to stir up a more conventional protest scene—"I want to see an angry crowd waving signs!"—and for a couple of seconds the audience obliged, but then they sat down and grew quiet again.
The political claims-making method was developed to fine-tune conventional protest event analysis (PEA), which tried to systematically map, analyze and interpret the occurrence and properties of large numbers of protests through newspaper content analysis (Koopmans & Rucht, 2002).
Given the UK's self-aggrandizing in the face of decay, Blake and Blunt's mock-patriot zeal serves a far higher purpose than a conventional protest ever could.
Under the banner of 'Break Free from Fossil Fuel', 'Tens of thousands of activists took to the streets, occupied mines, blocked rail lines, paddled in kayaks and held community meetings in 13 countries, pushing the boundaries of conventional protest to find new ways to demand coal, oil and gas stay in the ground'.
Conventional protests by left-wing or progressive-liberal citizens are likely to be seen as "old political rituals" and will be ignored by right-wing extremists.
"David comes from a great tradition of non-conventional protest, he has never kept quiet if there are things going on he disagrees with".
To their credit, it's light years away from any conventional kind of protest music.
Indeed, as she acknowledged, hers was a life of protest against conventional assumptions both in religion and in medicine.
In every case Klein and Lewis present ordinary people who have mobilised to protest the conventional wisdom: that growth – all growth – is good no matter what the cost.
Some analysts are now predicting that the Greens — long more of a conventional party than a protest movement — will occupy the center ground held by the Free Democrats since 1945.
