Sentence examples for open protests from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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

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.

His extreme act sparked the first open protests against the Tunisian government, which in turn set off demonstrations around the Arab world.

Significantly, after his public humiliation, he did not sign the major open protests against nuclear weapons of the 1950s, including the Russell Einstein Manifesto of 1955, nor, though invited, did he attend the first Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs in 1957.

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

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

Earlier this month a group of seminarians at the Hebei Catholic Theological and Philosophical Seminary in the city of Shijiazhuang, 300km (185 miles) south of Beijing, mounted an unusually open protest.

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.