Sentence examples for protest applications from inspiring English sources

"For Chinese petitioners, if their protest applications were approved, it would lead to a chain reaction of others seeking to voice their problems as well," Mr. Li said.

Officials say that they received 77 protest applications but that nearly all of them were dropped after the complaints were "properly addressed by relevant authorities or departments through consultations".

On Monday, when they returned to the police station to follow up on their protest applications, the women were told they had been sentenced to one year at a labor camp for "disturbing public order".

Sheriff Ronnie Strength of Richmond County, who has the power to approve or reject protest applications and their locations in Augusta, has repeatedly said that he will oppose any demonstrations near the club's entrance gates, because of the heavy traffic during the tournament.

But the fact that Twitter would change its downtime maintenance to accommodate a wide spectrum of protest applications is a sign that Twitter has acknowledged its active role in supporting the protests, says Rob Faris, the research director at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Among those detained during the Games were Zhang Wei, a Beijing resident who was seeking to publicize the demolition of her home, and Ji Sizun, a democracy advocate whose foray to the protest application office ended with his disappearance into a large black car.

There have been protests against applications for test drilling for gas in both the Vale of Glamorgan and Wrexham.

"I can understand if they said reduce your fish quotas, or reduce the number of fishing days, but the truth is they're shutting us down," said Ettore Iani, president of Legapesca, a national fish trade association that has vociferously protested the application of the regulations that will have an impact on the catch of smaller fish.

How exactly will taking out court orders against protest encourage future applications from aspiring undergraduates?" Index on Censorship also condemned Birmingham's move.

This, though, was not the view of a High Court judge, who on Friday firmly rejected the protest group's application for a statutory review.

The introduction of £9,000 fees sparked huge protests and caused applications to fall by 7.7% in England, though they've recovered since.