Sentence examples for drew a protest from inspiring English sources

The chair judge ruled for Williams, which drew a protest from Jankovic and catcalls from the crowd.

A video of the order, posted on the Internet, drew a protest from the Bronx borough president, Adolfo Carri r., who demanded an apology.

A recent profile of the mayor of St . Petersburg Valentina Matviyenko, in The Independent, portraying her as a possible future leader of Russia, drew a protest to Britain's Press Complaints Commission from a group of Russian businessmen, politicians and others.

On Wednesday she attended a luncheon with Commonwealth leaders, including President Mahinda Rajapaksa of Sri Lanka, whose presence drew a protest by hundreds of Tamils and other demonstrators outside the luncheon venue at Marlborough House, the Commonwealth's headquarters.

The original bill, which drew a protest of almost 1,000 people to the state Capitol in Richmond on Monday, was amended by Republican legislative leaders working with Republican Governor Bob McDonnell after it drew intense national attention.

In 1976, he drew a protest from Hiroshima's mayor, Takeshi Araki, when he flew a B-29 in a simulation of the Hiroshima bombing at an air show in Texas.

This summer, India and Russia participated for the first time in Hawaii in the world's largest international maritime exercise, Rim of the Pacific, but the United States excluded China, drawing a protest from Beijing.

The elder Mayor Daley never lost a council vote in twenty-one years, a period in which one member was best known for regularly shouting "God Bless Mayor Daley!" If a controversial measure was likely to draw a protest, the Old Man called in the Rulies, city workers who monopolized public seats to box out anyone who might be unruly.

On 23 October, the JNA started a sustained artillery bombardment of Dubrovnik, including the Old Town within the city walls, drawing a protest from the United States Department of State the next day.

Some parks and monuments remain closed, drawing a protest at the National World War II Memorial on Sunday that included tea party-backed lawmakers who had unsuccessfully demanded defunding of Obama's 3-year-old health care law in exchange for keeping the government open.

They drew a sharp protest from the production about the fairness of assessing a show while its creative team is still at work.