Sentence examples for protests amount from inspiring English sources
And the moms from KOCO would undoubtedly get locked up because the mayor would insist that he has a plan -- however ill-conceived -- for their schools, and that their illegal rooftop protests amount to an obstruction of his plan and a threat to public safety.
The renewed protests amounted to a rejection of concessions outlined by President Bashar al-Assad in a televised address Saturday, notably lifting the country's 48-year-old state of emergency by the end of this week.
The first is that the Tiananmen pro-democracy protests amounted to a one-time release of the Chinese people's political passions, later replaced by a zeal for making money.
Robert Barnett, director of modern Tibetan studies at Columbia University, dismissed the Chinese contention that the protests amounted to little more than criminal riots, calling their spread through several provinces significant.
He said the protest amounted to a strike, which the POA is banned from taking by law.
The protest amounts to the National Immigrant Youth Alliance's most audacious protest against the Obama administration's roughly 1.7 million deportations.
Administrators of the Mordovia region penal system said the protest amounted to blackmailing camp officials because they wouldn't give her unusual privileges, the Russian news agency RIA Novosti reported.
In 1915 inmates began throwing food and breaking dishes in the dining hall, protesting the amount and quality of meals.
Even some Republicans have protested the amount of money Mr. Bush wants to return to the richest Americans as part of a sweeping tax cut.
Dave Anderson rightly takes Mark McGwire to task for protesting the amount of time required to open the baseball season in Japan ("When 'Bay-bee' Toured Japan," March 26).
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