Sentence examples for involved in a protest from inspiring English sources

In February he was arrested at the University of Wisconsin while involved in a protest against experimentation on cats.

It said in a statement that it did not want to be involved in a protest that might delay the elections and thus the transition to democracy.

"A friend's daughter went off to college this year, and she was feeling a little lost, but now she's involved in a protest a minute," she said.

Knigge, who had never been involved in a protest movement before getting involved with Pulse of Europe, fielded organizational questions from other volunteers and reflected on his reasons for helping out.

In 1984, at the height of the miners' strike, he was one of those involved in a protest at the deduction of £16 from benefits paid to the dependants of those on strike that led to the suspension of the parliamentary sitting.

More than 17,500 people took part in the demonstration organised by the Patriotic Europeans Against Islamisation of the West, or Pegida, in Dresden on Monday – a rise on the 15,000 who were involved in a protest a week before.

(That's a common charge for people who are said to be involved in a public protest; authorities said that Xu had incited people to stage a demonstration).

Russia has dropped piracy charges against 30 people involved in a Greenpeace protest over Arctic oil drilling, replacing them with lesser charges, the Itar-Tass news agency reported on Wednesday, citing federal investigators.

One guard involved in a such a protest in December 1999, Daniel Nagle, was later stabbed to death by an inmate.

Shin A-lam, the South Korean fencer involved in a sit-down protest after her elimination from the individual epee, has picked herself up and brilliantly reignited her hopes of an Olympic medal at the ExCeL.

Her passive-aggressive mother-in-law criticizes her cooking, and her husband, who works for the state's conservative governor, is feuding with the couple's son, who has been involved in a paint-throwing protest against his father's boss.