Sentence examples for direct protest from inspiring English sources

But a tradition of direct protest compensates for some of this institutional weakness.

Political points were usually made obliquely, not through direct protest but by laughing at restrictions.

Any direct protest would be shut down immediately, even if people could overcome their fear to participate.

To fight this, Wark argued that we need a range of actions, from sanctions, to direct protest, to the legal challenges we'd heard of earlier, to education.

Legal experts say communities are using both direct protest and the courts to roll back the power of both the miners and the state.

They demanded democracy in Burma (Myanmar), in direct protest to the military coup and election annulment that had just occurred there, and they created a truly terrible time for the lot of airplane passengers to prove it.

Although they were quickly classed as political, few of the band's songs were direct protests.

"A lot of this is because there have been direct protests and the polls show there's a huge amount of support for raising the minimum wage.

But this is a far cry from the direct protests a few years ago over EU milk quotas, when farmers poured rivers of slurry and milk on to motorways to disrupt the economy.

Instead, they said, they would direct protests at federal institutions, corporations and media conglomerates that "profit from war" in an effort to attract attention but not offend most Americans.

It is only when direct protests of Amin fell on deaf ears, the children sought relief by appealing to an even higher authority, their teacher.