Sentence examples for decades of protest from inspiring English sources

For most, the desire to finally fulfill decades of protest soon overrode objections posed by Douglass or anyone else.

June 2006 began with a teachers' strike that was preceded by more than two decades of protest.

The Confederate flag was removed from South Carolina's statehouse grounds on Friday after decades of protest against the symbol came to a head following the killing of nine black people in a church in Charleston.

And late last month, Mr. Gyatso came to New York to help raise money to distribute the film and to continue his decades of protest against Chinese rule in his homeland.

Having lived in Wichita since she was a young girl, including the "Summer of Mercy" two decades ago when thousands of protesters blockaded clinics, Dr. Means was aware that Dr. Tiller had endured several attacks as well as decades of protest and legal challenges before his death, efforts that also succeeded in closing the other clinics in the city.

But beyond that, its permitted survival and prominent display despite decades of protest and scholarship have served as a constant reminder of the tremendous extent to which university administration values certain interests (and donors) more than it values students, faculty and staff of color.

Continued corporate and government mishandling of the disaster sparked decades of protests by victims and others.

A Unesco report approved the plans in principle last year, opening the way to resolving two decades of protests over new roads around Stonehenge.

Patrick French, author of "Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land" wrote in the International Herald Tribune the other day that two decades of protests and other activism by the international community have done nothing to improve Tibet's political freedoms.

After Irish independence from the UK in 1922, Leinster House became the home of Ireland's parliament, the Dáil, and the statue stayed there until 1948 when it was moved to storage after decades of protests from politicians.

The flag was moved from the top of the statehouse dome to a 30-foot pole on the building grounds in 2000 after nearly four decades of protests against it.