Sentence examples for designed to protest from inspiring English sources

It was a satirical gesture, designed to protest against the political class blamed for miring Iceland in the financial crisis.

At their trial the four had maintained that the events of July 21 were an elaborate hoax designed to protest against and draw attention to Britain's role in the attack upon and occupation of Iraq.

The supporters' group responsible for the banners, the Green Brigade, insisted they were football-related as they were designed to protest against the Scottish Government's Offensive Behaviour at Football Act and Police Scotland's implementation of the legislation, which they claim has criminalised expressions of Irish politics.

Also in Asa, Sandra Gamarra, a Peruvian artist, recently set up her LiMac project, a virtual Lima museum of contemporary art that she designed to protest the "artistic vacuum in my own city," she said, since the Peruvian capital actually does not have any such museum.

The supporters' group responsible for the banners, the Green Brigade, insisted they were football-related as they were designed to protest against the Scottish Government's Offensive Behaviour at Football Act and Police Scotland's implementation of the legislation, which it claims has criminalised expressions of Irish politics.

The strike by the National Union of Teachers – which left an estimated 7,000 of England's 22,000 state schools closed or partially closed for the day – was designed to protest against the effects of teacher workload pressures as well as a squeeze on funding that has led to some schools laying off staff even as pupil numbers are set to rise.

And while Morris, a socialist, developed medieval designs to protest manufacturing-era values, Wheeler embraced industrialism, printing on humble blue denim, and manufacturing a fabric with metallic weave she called "cloth of gold".

But the proliferation of laws designed to restrain protest and strike action, the growth of a centralised and militarised policing apparatus and the boom in prison construction, all beginning during her reign, not only transformed the relationship of citizens to the state but in so doing weakened popular constituencies relative to dominant business elites.

The generals who rule Burma had relocated hundreds of miles to the north to a new purpose-built capital city designed to be impervious to protest or invasion.

Many fans quietly recited The Lord's Prayer before the start of the game, an action designed partly to protest the Supreme Court ruling in June that forbade a pregame prayer routine led by students.

State Britain could be interpreted as a continuation of Haw's protest by other means, in such a place and in such a way as to mock a law designed to curtail our freedom to protest.