Sentence examples for protested the rule from inspiring English sources

Farm lobbyists had loudly protested the rule, but human rights advocates rightly pointed out that the rule was needed to protect migrant teenage workers.

Republican lawmakers, including Senator Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, also protested the rule as federal overreach.

But NATO, foreign embassies and aid groups that depend on private companies to provide security protested the rule, and companies involved in development projects said they would have to cease their work if they could not protect their employees.

At the hearing, hosts protested the rule's breadth: why not limit each member's listings, rather than banning them all?

But the move was immediately denounced as discriminatory by the main group that has protested the rules at the holy site.

The loan-forgiveness rules, which were to take effect in July, were seen as an aggressive response to widespread abuses that had been suspected for years, but a wide range of colleges, including historically black private colleges and universities, protested the rules for being too broad and punitive.

In January 1977 he was among the first to sign a petition, Charter 77, drawn up to protest the rule of Czech leader Gustav Husak.

The good news is that Latvians have begun again to protest the rule of oligarchs and look for alternatives to austerity.

Members of the American track and field team, including the sprinters Sanya Richards-Ross and Allyson Felix and the hurdler Lolo Jones, took part in a Twitter campaign this summer to protest the rule, but there seems to be little the I.O.C. can do to police something as personal as a pair of headphones.

Even as antigovernment protesters in Yemen struggled to revitalize their movement, sketching somewhat shaky plans over the weekend for a transitional government, they produced a show of their core strength, taking to the streets in huge numbers on Sunday to protest the rule of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Other groups have also written to protest the rule, with many comments submitted during the 3-year comment period and the most recent this month.