Sentence examples for protest persistent from inspiring English sources

Five years ago, Google made the high-profile decision to withdraw from China, to protest persistent hacking attempts on its source code, efforts to break into dissidents' Gmail accounts, and policies that required the company to censor its search results.

BAGHDAD — Thousands of demonstrators surged through the sweltering streets of Iraq's second-largest city to protest persistent shortages of electricity on Saturday, clashing with the police in a disturbance that underlined the growing popular anger here over the Iraqi government's inability to provide the basic necessities of life.

In his last years, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King was grappling with many issues: workers' rights, a sprawling protest movement, persistent segregation and poverty.

It documents the presidency of Barack Obama, but artifacts reflecting events like Black Lives Matter protests underscore persistent inequality and police brutality.

"Corporations are under pressure to pull advertising from anyone who is right of center — it's an attack on free speech". Advertisers, however, were responding to criticism and protests over persistent sexual harassment complaints at Fox News.

But some Twitter users voiced concerns over how the authorities handled a peaceful – if persistent – protest.

The most persistent protest has been in Admiralty on Tim Mei Avenue near the central government offices (map).

To that distinguished list, Obama has now appended Stonewall, the June 1969 fight back of gay men in a bar in the Manhattan neighbourhood of Greenwich Village in protest at the persistent harassment of city police.

Walker submitted that "on no view" is the law directed at the mere prevention of hurt feelings, arguing that women miss appointments and staff are often too afraid to go get a coffee because of persistent protest activity.

He and fellow artists are central to a slender but persistent protest movement that is making the government tetchy in the run-up to parliamentary elections due later this year.Mr Dos Santos's regime does not like surprises.

In new and far greater detail, and with a contagious sense of enjoyment that sometimes pushes her into the present tense and the personal, Baker shows how much the Beats owed their name and their legacy — including some of their politics of protest and a persistent head-shop aesthetic that ultimately benefited the Indian economy — to their embrace of Eastern beatitude.