Sentence examples for protest set from inspiring English sources

Others have organised a "taking back the beach" protest, set for London's Hyde Park on Saturday.

The protest set off a clash between the demonstrators and police, and 30 Portuguese peacekeepers went to the help of local police controlling the crowd.

Even as more organizers of this winter's huge street protests in Moscow arrived here on Thursday — ahead of a protest set for Saturday afternoon —residents seemed not to care.

Their bold protest set off a wave of teacher walkouts and protests that reached a half-dozen other states by year's end, including Oklahoma and Arizona, where teachers successfully pressed state lawmakers for a raise.

The principals' union protest set off a spat with the 228,000-member teachers' union, the United Federation of Teachers, whose president, Randi Weingarten, issued a statement defending the proposed changes.

Then in May, Gezi Park, a once-dingy area near the city's central Taksim Square, erupted, as Turks of all backgrounds took to the streets in a wide-ranging protest set off by anger at how the government was developing the city without the consent or participation of residents.

"After a year of protest and conversation around police accountability, having plain clothes officers without body cameras and proper identification in the protest setting leaves us with only the officer's account of the incident, which is clearly problematic".

The Seattle protests set the stage for similar types of activism in succeeding years.

About 210,000 people have fled Libya since protests set off violent repression there last month, according to estimates from the United Nations.

The organizers disseminated a weekly schedule, with the biggest protests set for Tuesday and Friday, to conserve their energy.

Protests set off by economic crisis and misrule have forged a tenuous unity among various ethnic and regional groups.