Sentence examples for protested on behalf from inspiring English sources

I've protested on behalf of writers who were imprisoned and tortured because of their work.

With its strong middle-class support base, it has, however, protested on behalf of information technology professionals and Indian students.

I was aghast that Darfur didn't prompt more of an international response from Western governments, but I was awed by the way American university students protested on behalf of a people who lived half a world away.

He was a founder of the Groupe d'information sur les prisons and often protested on behalf of homosexuals and other marginalized groups.

When Latvia decided to ban junk food and sweets from its schools, Albright protested on behalf of client Coca-Cola in a letter she wrote to President Vaira Vike-Freiberga.

"Today, in this audience, I see people who have protested on behalf of criminal justice reform grieving alongside police officers.

Parodying sentimental novels and memoirs in modern Gaelic by such authors as Tomás Ó Criomhthainn and Séamas Ó Grianna, O'Brien protests on behalf of a depressed Irish population: "In one way or another, life was passing us by and we were suffering misery, sometimes having a potato and at other times having nothing in our mouths but sweet words of Gaelic".

When we meet them, they have been jailed for protesting on behalf of the poor.

Nancy does have an agenda — she wants to find proof that Israeli troops killed her brother when he was peacefully protesting on behalf of displaced Palestinians.

"Where was Joe Lieberman when Jesse Jackson organized Democratic protests in Palm Beach County to protest on behalf of Al Gore?" asked Ari Fleischer, a Bush spokesman.

"It sounds good to protest on behalf of the environment," he said, "but if you were really protesting on behalf of the environment, there were two other major projects that have had a much more severe impact on the environment, that this committee didn't protest".