Sentence examples for protest to hit from inspiring English sources

The campaign said it would be "the largest-ever protest to hit the shareholder meeting".

The next day, marching behind a giant banner that read, "McDonald's: $15 and Union Rights, Not Food Stamps," 5,000 cooks and cashiers show up at the company's corporate headquarters in Oak Brook, Illinois, to kick off the largest-ever protest to hit the burger giant's annual shareholder meeting.

Tens of thousands of labor activists took to the streets of the Indonesian capital for the city's annual May Day rally on Monday, demanding higher wages and an end to "new-style slavery" in the largest protest to hit Jakarta in months.

Photograph: ETUC Updated at 7.44am GMT 7.20am GMT Strikes and protests to hit Europe today European workers are holding their biggest ever co-ordinated strike action and protests today against the austerity programmes that are gripping the region.

Pembroke and Milford Haven were accidentally moved to Carmarthenshire in our report headlined Oil refinery protests fail to hit supplies (page 8, April 27).

Six years ago, when popular protests started to hit the streets of Egypt as Hosni Mubarak's gang worked at rigging the 2005 parliamentary elections, the regime hit back – not just with the traditional Central Security conscripts – but with an innovation: militias of strong, trained, thugs.

All this manpower and technology will be similarly deployed in a cat-and-mouse game to chase out the massive amounts of "dissident" content and material commemorating the government's bloody repression of the Tiananmen protests sure to hit the Web as the country nears June 4.

Much like the strikes and protests expected to hit Walmart stores across the country on Black Friday, the readiness to labor on Thanksgiving is a symptom of the larger squeeze put on the industry's workers, argues Yana Walton, spokeswoman for the Retail Action Project, a group that advocates for rank-and-file retail employees.

Recently, Mr. Henry has been forced to leave his bakery occasionally — under protest, he says — to hit the film awards circuit, because of his starring role as Wink in "Beasts of the Southern Wild".

But, aided by caffeine, she's swiftly into her stride, vigorously debating the colourful contours of her extraordinary life – from Native American rights campaigner and protest music icon to hit songwriter, amateur astrologer, teaching co-ordinator and electronic music pioneer.

NEW YORK ― In a show of solidarity, employees of The New York Times walked out of their office on Thursday to protest layoffs expected to hit the paper's copy desk. .