Sentence examples for drew a protest to from inspiring English sources
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.
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.
The Marshallese Congress drew up a protest to the Trusteeship Council.
Elfriede Jelinek drew a protest from a member of the Swedish Academy, Knut Ahnlund.
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.
The festival has attracted increasing criticism from animal rights groups – on Saturday activists from Peta staged a protest to draw attention to what they say is a week of fear and death for bulls.
Westminster was visited by two protests — one by PETA, and the other by "Dogs for Romney," a protest to draw attention to the fact that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney once strapped his dog to a roof rack of a car for a 12-hour drive.
The establishment of the scholarship drew a letter of protest to the college from the Iranian embassy in London.
This plan made them a prime target of hacktivist group Anonymous and eventually drew a well-attended counter-protest to block the church's followers from disrupting the services.
More than 60 people were arrested after the sixth night of largely peaceful protests drew an estimated 50,000 demonstrators to Sao Paulo on Tuesday.
We have seen this before, with students and citizens standing up to demand access to the political process they were promised and which they deserve, taking places in nonviolent protest to draw a line for Beijing to not cross.
