Sentence examples for engaged in protests from inspiring English sources

The report also made some observations about Asio's investigation of "issues-motivated groups" who engaged in protests.

Dan Schlademan, one of the protests' main organizers and the director of Making Change at Wal-Mart, an arm of the food and commercial workers union, said that hundreds of Walmart workers had gone on strike on Friday and engaged in protests across the country.

The report also described instances in which people not engaged in protests were attacked with tear gas fired into their cars and through the windows or doors of their homes, including at least two cases in which residents died from complications from exposure to the gas because they were trapped in enclosed spaces.

A committee of the Missouri legislature voted this week to penalize the University of Missouri's flagship campus financially because students there engaged in protests.

Last Sunday, in response to President Donald Trump labeling players who protest "sons of bitches" and calling on NFL owners to fire them, more than 200 players engaged in protests that emulated Kaepernick's.

A Nevada school district threatened to keep kids from participating in school-sponsored events, including benching school athletes, if they took part in walkouts; a district in Wisconsin issued a blanket "unexcused absence" for any student engaged in protests during the school day.

Countless CND activists cut their campaigning teeth trying to prevent these bases being built, and many thousands more have engaged in protest and direct action at bases ever since – including at RAF Lakenheath as recently as last month.

Rhona Friedman, a lawyer, said, "The letter is being sent to young people who have not been convicted of any criminal offence but whose names must appear on the police intelligence data base of those engaged in protest.

They are at last engaged in protest via the 2016 presidential campaign, and Sanders, who calls for debt-free higher education, is their champion.

Time noted some of the confusion surrounding the conflicting views on the self-immolation; one Beijing Falun Gong practitioner interviewed appeared to accept that the self-immolators were practitioners engaged in protest, while Falun Gong organisations overseas denied any involvement.

SEIU's airport workers affiliate will be spending May Day engaged in protest and civil disobedience at Los Angeles International Airport to challenge efforts by major airlines to jeopardize employees health and safety.