Sentence examples for mute protest from inspiring English sources

But even as the commissioners explained their positions, some audience members held signs on their laps for the cameras, in vigils of mute protest.

And when they were refused — refused because they were black, because much of Greensboro was racially segregated, and because Woolworth headquarters had decreed that the company policy was "to abide by local custom" — the four students continued to sit in mute protest.

He refused to make any further cuts and went mute in protest.

Rabe, who finally went mute in protest ("He couldn't reach me. I was not listening," Rabe told me), stayed with the show until it opened but spoke hardly a word to Nichols.

The secular elites among the Palestinians and other Arabs, as well as the political moderates and the middle classes, have too often allowed anger, fear and a sense of helplessness to mute their protest against the horrific suicide bombings that have killed innocent civilians in the past year, even if most believed that such acts are profoundly wrong.

The decree, which must be approved by the opposition-led Congress by Thursday, suspends some constitutional guarantees, a measure that could mute public protests over the increases.

But so far, they are mainly muting their protest, clinging to the belief that Mr. Obama still means what he said on the campaign trail and remaining wary of undermining what they see as the most liberal president sent to the White House in a generation.

Since they are mere beasts for burden in a man's game — a rich man's game — the protests are mute.

The general pointed to his throat, signaling that he was mute, but on this day of protest he intended to be heard.

In protest, the lawyers stayed mute, and Shakur and Sadiki conducted their own defense.

The youngest Wiggin sister, the drummer Helen (Emily Walton), stages her own sort of protest by remaining almost entirely mute, for reasons that are never quite clarified.