The phrase "general protest" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a broad or widespread expression of disagreement or disapproval towards a particular issue or situation. Example: The government's decision to increase taxes sparked a general protest among the citizens, with people from all walks of life coming out to voice their anger and frustration.
Some voters said their support of the nationalists was a general protest against the ruling authorities.
But for a more general protest movement, going nationwide is the next logical step.
By contrast, a recent initiative by Egypt's government to appoint female judges roused little general protest.
"A message comes to every mobile phone about a general protest on Friday in Tripoli," one resident of Tripoli said.
Ullman seems astonished that there isn't a mass general protest at threats to privacy, and she doesn't use Twitter, for instance.
They have since grown into a more general protest against Yanukovych's government, and have also attracted a noisy minority who hold radical far-right views.
General protests have included flashmob book readings, mass check-outs, and "shhh-ins".
In the January election Rajapakse easily defeated Fonseka, winning 58 percent of the vote, though the general protested the results.
Mr. Weill bowed out after Eliot Spitzer, the New York attorney general, protested that appointing Mr. Weill to represent the public would be a "gross misjudgment and a violation of trust".
Rosenstein came into the picture not because Jeff Sessions, the Attorney General, protested, but because Sessions himself had been compromised by the investigation that Comey was leading, and so had to pass the buck.
The opposition party has pleaded for international intervention to resolve Zimbabwe's political stalemate, and at a news conference in Harare, Tendai Biti, its secretary general, protested what he called "the deafening silence" from the African Union and a regional bloc of nations known as the Southern African Development Community, The Associated Press reported.
