Sentence examples for protest speakers from inspiring English sources

"Tadic is not Serbia," read a big banner over a stage used by the protest speakers, including Mr. Mladic's son, Darko, who attacked what they called the government's efforts to placate Washington and the West by extraditing "a Serbian hero," Mr. Mladic.

Students can and do have every right to protest speakers.

But when some ragtag students organize petition campaigns to protest commencement speakers whose very values or actions contradict the spirit of the degree they are receiving, they are told to stifle their tantrums and, as the Daily Beast put it, "STFU".

On the other side, the Occupy Graduation movement is protesting conservative speakers, wealth and student debt.

"We're not here to fight the police, we're here to protest," one speaker shouted as scores of officers stood by silently and the crowd chanted to them, "Go home!

And students certainly have a right to respectfully protest a speaker with whom they disagree.

Grimm has been a vocal advocate for the federal relief money, including taking the House floor on Jan . 1to protest House Speaker John Boehner's (R-Ohio) decision to postpone an original vote on the aid package.

Nineteen Asian-Americans protesting outside Speaker Paul Ryan's office on Capitol Hill were arrested Wednesday while calling for him to move the Dream Act to a vote. .

However, rather than rallies and protests, commencement speaker choices could instead serve as a foundation for civil discussion, as has been in the case at a few locations in the past.

The organizers said 30 members of Parliament took part in the protest, including the speaker, Reuven Rivlin.

Some commentators regard student protests against invited speakers as another indicator of the divisiveness of American culture and part of a larger trend of politically correct "orthodoxies" on campuses.