Sentence examples for direct protests from inspiring English sources

"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.

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.

Following direct protests by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to US Vice President Dick Cheney, as well as by Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gül to US Secretary of State Colin Powell, the Turkish soldiers were released after sixty hours in captivity.

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.

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

A1 South Korea Protests to North A meeting to discuss reconciliation gave South Korea a forum to make its first direct protest since North Korea admitted last week that it had broken a 1994 agreement not to pursue a nuclear weapons program.

The Dutch never had a referendum on the euro, or on any of the other steps on the road towards European unity, so this is their first opportunity to register a direct protest at the way the EU has evolved.

A long-scheduled meeting to discuss reconciliation today gave South Korea a forum to make its first direct protest since North Korea admitted last week that it had broken a 1994 agreement not to pursue a nuclear weapons program.