Sentence examples for protest measures from inspiring English sources

In her invite to the meeting in London to discuss protest measures, Bharti Tailor, the forum's secretary general, said the group actively supported the Olympics, but urged members to take a stand against companies which "continue to trample over society".

In the coming days, Italian lawyers are planning to go on strike to protest measures to reduce their minimum fees, and gas stations and other businesses are planning strikes or sit-ins.

Inventive as a protest measure it may be -- however grisly -- but the only certainty in this entrenched battle is that for those who go down in a blaze of flames for their struggle, their efforts end there.

In 2011, the Chicago mayor, Rahm Emanuel, requested that the city council pass "temporary" anti-protest measures in response to the planned protests around the Nato and G8 summits.

It all happened – very rapidly and without time for dissent – with the passage of rushed security and anti-protest measures adopted by the city council on 18 January 2012.

The bus drivers were protesting measures taken by Veolia that they said violated their contract and impinged on their ability to do their jobs.

Taxi drivers protesting measures to open their sector to competition hacked chunks of stone from sidewalks and hurled them at riot officers.

On Wednesday, the Spanish government announced a draft proposal to introduce anti-protest measures that would make Russia's handling of activists look magnanimous in comparison.

The anti-protest measure, which took effect Sunday, forbids spontaneous street demonstrations, which have been a prominent feature of public life here since the enormous 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak, the autocratic longtime president.

Thousands of Romanians took to the streets across the country last month to protest austerity measures.

Valerie Strauss, of the Washington Post, regularly opens her Web-based education column to teachers and principals to protest reform measures.