Sentence examples for persistent protest from inspiring English sources

But some Twitter users voiced concerns over how the authorities handled a peaceful – if persistent – protest.

The most persistent protest has been in Admiralty on Tim Mei Avenue near the central government offices (map).

He and fellow artists are central to a slender but persistent protest movement that is making the government tetchy in the run-up to parliamentary elections due later this year.Mr Dos Santos's regime does not like surprises.

Partly as a result of this courageous and persistent protest by thousands of ordinary people, who were regularly demonised as terrorists by political opponents within the South African regime (and by certain world leaders, including the UK's), there was a concerted international effort to bring international law to bear upon an entrenched position.

Okuyama writes that, in the end, the film (and the book on which it was based) serves as a "quiet yet persistent protest" against the discrimination which people who deal with death continue to face in modern Japan: death is a normal part of life, not something repulsive.

New Yorkers received tainted water for decades, despite persistent protests over the foul taste.

Activists in the capital, Damascus, and its suburbs said small but persistent protests by hundreds of demonstrators erupted after Friday Prayer despite the deployment of security forces.

Bahrain, a Sunni-ruled monarchy in the Persian Gulf, has beaten back persistent protests from the country's Shiite majority for more than a year.

The shelling in Homs singled out two neighborhoods, Bab Amr and Aldubiyeh, both of which have witnessed persistent protests against the 11-year rule of Mr. Assad.

Revolutions that began last year in Tunisia and spread across the Middle East also inspired small but persistent protests and labor strikes in Jordan.

Revolutions that began in Tunisia in December 2010 and spread across the Middle East have also inspired small but persistent protests and labor strikes in Jordan.