Sentence examples for modest protest from inspiring English sources

Amnesty International held a modest protest near the hotel where Mr. Obama and his family were staying.

Panamanian human rights groups held a modest protest today on the same street where in 1979 they denounced the shah of Iran's asylum request.

MADRID — Every Thursday evening, in the middle of the Puerta del Sol, a small crowd gathers around an equestrian statue of King Carlos III to stage a modest protest.

She is the deputy director of the National Partnership for New Americans, an advocacy and service coalition for immigrant communities, and, in contact with other organizations, she arranged what they assumed would be a modest protest.

Still, as the modest protest march from the Lower Ninth Ward made clear, Mr. Bush remains the favored target of the fervent activist community that has blossomed here in the wake of the storm.

What started as a modest protest at the Bank of America building has swelled to near-daily Occupy San Francisco marches in the financial district, populated by families, businesses and union groups including National Nurses United and the labor union.

Students at universities all over Iran commemorated Student Day on Tuesday with modest protests within the confines of their campuses and on a scale far smaller than those in the months immediately following Mr. Ahmadinejad's re-election.

When Tatarstan, the core of the old Idel-Ural, tried to reintroduce the Latin alphabet in which the local Turkic language is most logically written, this was banned by the Kremlin.It is hard to match the modest protests by a loose movement consisting mainly of concerned philologists and ethnographers with the allergic reaction they prompt.

The American media exaggerated the size and character of last autumn's modest student protests.

The group has also been holding modest weekly protests outside News International.

And even though this was a modest counter-protest in a modest city, it mattered – just as Birmingham had mattered in 1963, and Ferguson had mattered in 2014.