Sentence examples for empty protest from inspiring English sources
London 2012: Empty zil lanes, empty stadiums, empty messages from corporate sponsors, empty promises of urban regeneration and now a fairly empty protest.
London 2012: Empty zil lanes, empty stadiums, empty messages from corporate sponsors, empty promises of urban regeneration, and now a fairly empty protest.
She takes it with elaborate but empty protests, knowing full well that no matter how much she begs him not to be so kind, the notes will end up in her clutches.
His place on the jury for this year's Berlin film festival was kept empty in protest at his incarceration.
Every spring it holds a national Empty Holster Protest "symbolizing that disarming all law-abiding citizens creates defense-free zones, which are attractive targets for criminals".
With the tie effectively over and the team in crisis in the league, there had been a campaign from some supporters to leave the stadium empty in protest.
Under rows of tents and in a plaza in front of a sound stage, plastic chairs stood empty, and protest leaders did not offer their accustomed rousing speeches from the stage.
We had Alison Lapper temporarily in Trafalgar Square as an icon of bodily difference and disabled artist and activist Liz Crow's empty plinth protest against the Nazi death programme and the message it holds for us today.
The reborn Front, said Mr Megret, would not lose itself in in-fighting, self-congratulation and empty gestures of protest.
In one respect it would be nice to think the away end will be empty and the protest a visible one, in the form of row after row of unfilled seats, with the message it sends that, ultimately, it is the people who watch football who choose its good guys and its pariahs.
Do they go after the Ukip votes in which they make it even harder to win the centrist votes in constituencies like this?" All the mainstream parties will now have to decide whether to respond to Ukip's growing popularity by becoming more Eurosceptic and anti-immigrant, or instead challenging the party as an empty vehicle of protest.
