His sons, in spite of his protestations, follow him into the business.
Rumors persist that Mario Cuomo, despite his protestations, will get into the race later if the situation seems propitious, and there are also rumors that Bill Bradley is warming up (by having media-performance experts observe some of his appearances) — but perhaps that's for 1992.
Despite Yunus' protestations, the investigation into his business activity was not without merit.
Walpole was also attempting to cope with his homosexual feelings, which for a while focused on Benson, who recorded in his diary in 1906 an unexpected outburst by his young admirer: "[H]e broke out rather eagerly into protestations – He cared for me more than anyone in the world.
If my past protestations could have fed into that, then I've been part of the problem.
He has already bullied Marco Rubio, of Florida, the leading figure among the Republican drafters of the bill, into embarrassing protestations of respect.
The men who were less injured held flashlights and assessed their more severely hurt buddies, waving off their protestations and loading them into a pickup for the hospital.
Small children were more intent on throwing pebbles, stones and – despite the protestations of parents – bricks into the low tide as the dancers spun on their bungee ropes in a performance called Waterfall.
In a community where most veniremen will admit to a disqualifying prejudice, the reliability of the others' protestations may be drawn into question, for it is then more probable that they are part of a community deeply hostile to the accused, and more likely that they may unwittingly have been influenced by it.
But as we get to the playoffs, the protestations and pandering may turn into a discussion of God and man and the electorate that is far more intense, and potentially ugly.
