Sentence examples for prolonged protests from inspiring English sources

They followed prolonged protests at drilling sites for the East West Link.

After prolonged protests, the government finally resigned, a new constitution was drawn up and the situation immediately started improving – despite serious threats from the UK and the IMF.

And they are disappointed that it apparently took prolonged protests to force the government's hand.

In May last year a bloody confrontation with the military ended prolonged protests, in which more than 90 people died.

"[T]he graduate students and postdocs are certainly grateful for the economic boost," but "they are disappointed that it apparently took prolonged protests to force the government's hand," Bagla wrote.

Despite prolonged protests and intense media coverage, the demonstrators' demands for universal suffrage have yet to be realized.

The expulsion followed prolonged Canadian protests over the killing of a photojournalist, Zahra Kazemi, in an Iranian prison in 2003.

Although there was no video of the policeman shooting him, the ensuing prolonged and violent protests called attention to the Garner video, which previously had received negligible public scrutiny, and to the heartbreaking video in November, of 12 year-old Tamir Rice's shooting by a Cleveland policeman.

In the midst of Yemen's complex war, hundreds dared to take to the streets of Aden in February to protest prolonged outages.

In both cases, prolonged periods of protest disrupted the game's flow, allowing audiences at home to see replays before spot kicks took place.

Urged to remove the sign after acquiring Barney's, Held dug in his heels, despite prolonged picketing and other protests.