Sentence examples for protest in the face from inspiring English sources

I wouldn't deny that protest in the face of the Iraq war is still alive.

She and a group of elderly female activists held a bare bottom protest in the face of police violence and achieved all three of their aims.

The vehement reaction to those "Rosenkavalier" reviews may be interpreted as a preëmptive protest: in the face of the cult of the body, let's preserve the cult of the voice.

Where Kendrick Lamar's "To Pimp a Butterfly" offers a voice of protest in the face of oppression, "Prima Donna" and "Atlanta" disavow a progressive narrative, and instead insist on the paradoxes — and hypocrisies — that operate in the worlds they depict.

Responsible, active ownership calls us to use voice our protest in the face of unjust and unethical practices, whether in the boardrooms of the world's financial institutions or in Zuccotti Park.

For the video, ThirtyRev laid the same song used in the Pepsi ad, Skip Marley's "Lions," over powerful footage of water protectors at Standing Rock continuing to protest in the face of intense police opposition.

During protests Dec. 27 during the observance of the holy day of Ashura, hundreds of thousands of Iranians protested in the face of a bloody crackdown that killed at least eight people and wounded scores more, according to official figures.

Syria's nascent opposition movement, organized by an amorphous group of young activists operating mainly online, now faces its biggest test: whether it can sustain protests in the face of a brutal government crackdown.

BANGKOK, Sept. 27 — Brutality and defiance marked the second day of an armed crackdown in Myanmar on Thursday as the military junta tried to crush a wave of nationwide protests in the face of harsh international condemnation.

BEIRUT, Lebanon Syriaia's uprising has become more violent in the country's most restive regions, in what may signal the start of a protracted armed struggle after six months of largely peaceful protests in the face of a ferocious government crackdown, diplomats, activists and officials say.

Both remained dedicated to peaceful protest, even in the face of legal repercussions.