Sentence examples for piece of protest from inspiring English sources

As has happened often with Pavlensky's previous performances, the state provided the perfect coda to a piece of protest art.

Salary," reads one piece of protest graffiti painted near an Awakening checkpoint in Dora market, adapting the motto of a feared paramilitary unit during Saddam Hussein's era.

This was only the third piece of protest art in the oeuvre of St Petersburg native Petr Pavlensky, but he has already made a name for himself as one of the most intriguing figures on the contemporary Russian art scene.

If he had "prefaced the work calling it a piece of protest poetry (or something) I am pretty certain the work would have been considered a triumph," Rin Johnson wrote to me.

It is not some tatty, hand-drawn piece of protest samizdat, but a professionally produced, four-color, four-page document of the demonstration, which began on Sept. 17. "Get your newspaper, get your free Occupied Wall Street Journal!" shouted one barker.

Several tech entrepreneurs started a drone service in San Francisco called the Tacocopter, a quadrotor which theoretically delivers tacos to your door theoretically, because current F.A.A. regulations forbid commercial droning, and because the enterprise is in some respects a piece of protest theatre.

BEIJING — A wood sculpture of a larger-than-life man's head whose gaping mouth is stuffed with a plug — a piece of Chinese protest art from more than 30 years ago — was supposed to be a star attraction at a retrospective here.

There were two pieces of anguished protest about the Spanish Civil War: the magisterial "Sketches From Chroniclee' " (a reconstruction from 1936) and the solo "Deep Song" (1937), which was added after the program had been printed.

The trio went on to produce a skywriting project, a hitchhiking project, and, most recently, "HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US," a piece of anti-Trump protest art, launched on Inauguration Day.

Demonstrators then milled about, sang anti-capitalist songs and toppled this red chair – which goes by the name "Queen Elizabeth's Chair" – as a very polite piece of anti-monarchy protest.

For a reporter to withhold his or her name from a published piece as an act of protest is therefore a little like threatening to hold your breath until you die.