Sentence examples for had been protesting from inspiring English sources

Police claim he had been protesting.

Ibrahim said she had been protesting "in order to live freely and to defend religion".

By that point, she had been protesting Trump's presidency for nearly two years.

The villagers had been protesting the killing of a woman by soldiers the day before.

They had been protesting the participation of an Israeli team in a cricket tournament.

The Shiite majority had been protesting to demand greater freedom, equal rights and an elected government from the Sunni monarchy.

People in Mr. Shiceka's home district had been protesting the poor quality of water and sewerage services.

The peasants had been protesting eviction from their land, which the government wanted to claim for mining and petroleum projects.

Immigration — a subject that students and community members had been protesting outside the building, calling into question the government's deportation policies.

Others mobilized en masse when called -- they were regulars of sorts and had been protesting in Florida.

In Saigon, the small bands of street demonstrators who had been protesting against the election were silent yesterday.