Sentence examples for mild protest from inspiring English sources

It was a mild protest, but I was given a 10-month suspended sentence for defamation of the president and the republic.

Mr. Paterson's attempt, so far, has drawn only mild protest.

One museum guard put up a mild protest, only to let them carry on.

So it was strange to see him back as the captain, even with a mild protest from his wife.

"Her family was a bunch of Communists," Mr. Heckman explained, provoking a mild protest from Ms. Loretz.

Bobby Murcer saw the cream-colored Rolls-Royce that would take him to Yankee Stadium yesterday and uttered a mild protest about vehicular excess to his usual driver.

'Mild protests against the music," wrote Stravinsky, "could be heard from the beginning".

The filmmaker Elia Kazan, long a pariah for naming names of fellow former Communists in 1952, was honored by Hollywood in 1999 against surprisingly mild protests.

To the Vatican's mild protests, Cardinal Sin replied that to be engaged in politics was no more immoral than boxing.

There were mild protests this week when 25 police officers closed a popular pizza restaurant for staying open past midnight, though its owner said it was not covered by the law.

Gary Matthews Jr. came up cleanly with the ball and made a strong throw home, but the home plate umpire Laz Diaz ruled that Rod Barajas's tag was too late, despite Mets Manager Jerry Manuel's mild protests.