Sentence examples for protestations on from inspiring English sources

This, too, is understandable, but it hardly squares with Blair's initial protestations on the plane to Hong Kong.

— and a young couple on the other side of his table insisted, against his polite but firm protestations, on buying him a chocolate mousse.

Of course, if Quinn and his colleagues gave a damn about the reality of the situation, they would have found their protestations on the suitability of same-sex parents to be utterly misplaced.

But protestations on that count should not, in the debate on Wednesday, substitute for an engagement with the real ugliness of what is being proposed by the frontrunners in the Republican race.

A mere handful of people if any fall into this category, and yet Mr Hague's protestations on their behalf are credited (along with some ungenerous remarks about asylum-seekers) with having helped the Conservatives to turn in a good performance in last month's local-government elections and notch up a modest recovery in the opinion polls.

Despite multiple protestations on the part of the South African government, the villages refuse to use scalpels and instead stick with the inefficient and often unclean ritual knives.

I'm Not in Love, written by Stewart and Gouldman, turns the protestation on its head so simply and effectively you wonder why no one had written it before.

Why do you think I'm here voluntarily?" Speaking to Sky News on the plane earlier, he expanded on his protestations of innocence.

Edwards's protestation on Friday that his enemies had timed their attack for maximum effect seemed valid.

Hence the sudden protestations of deficit hawkishness on Capitol Hill.

I know this may seem something of a betrayal, but a) we thought it would be funny, which it was, and b) we insisted, despite the protestations of the producers, on wearing 1966 England shirts.