Sentence examples for protest voted from inspiring English sources

Another conservative Democrat, Representative Gene Taylor of Mississippi, in protest, voted for Representative John P. Murtha, a conservative Pennsylvania Democrat, as party leader instead of Mr. Gephardt.

The Parliament, brushing aside the protest, voted overwhelming to require that 60percentt of classes in public schools be taught in Latvian, even though Russian remains the first language of nearly a third of the country's 2.2 million residents.

It was finally settled when the House Administration Committee, after Republican members had walked out in protest, voted to recommend that McCloskey be seated.

The protest vote was big.

Just a protest vote, then?

He called it a protest vote.

Protest votes everywhere are getting bigger.

(The protest vote is a French specialty).

Some of this was protest voting.

It's like a protest vote.

"It's in effect a protest vote".