Sentence examples for joint protest from inspiring English sources
On one popular Liverpool forum, a supporter said that a joint protest with Manchester United fans was unpalatable, but necessary.
When Pétain in August 1942 dissolved the permanent bureaus of the Chamber and Senate, Herriot joined with Jules Jeanneney, president of the Senate, in lodging a joint protest.
The next day, diplomats from the United States, France, Britain and Germany marched into his office atop a Vienna skyscraper to deliver a joint protest.
FORTUNE German Banks Protest Capital Requirements | German banking associations mounted a joint protest Thursday against the European Union's new capital proposals, complaining that the regulations would make banks appear weak, The Wall Street Journal reports.
The protests in March in Liaoyang received worldwide attention because they were so large, drawing tens of thousands, and because they brought together workers from dozens of state factories in an unusual joint protest.
In a rare show of unity, Turkey's president, prime minister, army chief and opposition party leader issued a strong joint protest against European Union moves to impose new conditions for the start of membership talks.
Joint protests also were held in several dozen cities in the United States, Mexico and Europe.
A coalition of far-right activist groups in the region last week warned of "Islam conquering Europe" and announced plans for joint protests.
In March, Musharraf suspended the chief justice Iftakar Mohammed Chaudhry, a move that triggered a wave of anger across the country and led to the first joint protests held by the parties of exiled former prime ministers Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif.
These joint protests are "labor history in the making," according to Ileen DeVault, a professor of labor history at Cornell University.
Given the amount of upset the EU's austerity measures have caused in the last few years, if there's anything surprising about today's joint protests, it's that they haven't happened on this scale sooner.
