Sentence examples for open protest from inspiring English sources

It takes great courage to make this sort of open protest in South Africa today.

Occasionally (as in Aba in 1929) discontent with colonial rule flared into open protest.

This time there was no open protest; and the voters, in a new plebiscite, accorded Napoleon a handsome majority of 97 percent.

Still, the absence of open protest against the nuclear plans did not mean that Turks were completely unconcerned, Mr. Aktar said.

Last month, dissent boiled into open protest as crowds overpowered guards and burst into the parliamentary chamber, while hundreds of sympathizers rallied outside.

Beatings and police shootings still occur regularly in Los Angeles, as they do elsewhere, and sometimes lead to public anger and open protest.

The Saudi authorities were particularly worried that the open protests of the Shia majority in Bahrain would spread to the Shia population in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia.

However the party's power was seen to be on the wane with unusually open protests against alleged corruption in the city during a closely fought election battle.

Unlike autocratic countries where open protests are banned, the US guarantees rights to freedom of assembly, and we must exercise those rights.

Speaking Out in Vietnam shows that although we may think that the party-state represses public criticism, in fact Vietnamese authorities often tolerate and respond positively to such public and open protests.

It is this climate of fear, says Mr. Borodko, Zubr's coordinator in Borisov, that his movement is combatting, by staging regular, open protests against Mr. Lukashenko's rule.