Sentence examples for protests contested from inspiring English sources

In what came to be known as the Green Movement, a series of mass protests contested the official results of the Presidential election, which granted a second term to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has held the office since 2005.

When tens of thousands gathered in Moscow in May 2012 to protest against contested election results and Putin's return to the presidency, the nature of the news programmes put out by the Rossiya channel became much more pro-government.

Taking their cue from an angry Iraqi journalist, several hundred researchers hurled shoes at the Department of Higher Education and Research in Paris to protest hotly contested reforms.

Taking their cue from the angry Iraqi journalist who took aim at then-U.S. president George W. Bush, several hundred French researchers hurled shoes at the Department of Higher Education and Research in Paris to protest hotly contested reforms by research minister Valérie Pécresse.

Nine protesting prisoners contested the general election in the Republic of Ireland in June.

Houses of worship and community centers across the country have become protested and contested.

Many businesses have remained shut since protests around the contested election began in April.

Even though the motives and culprits behind Tuesday's attack remain unconfirmed, the incident will enable the government to intensify its oppressive clampdown on Venezuelans as they take to the streets to protest Maduro's widely contested bid to rewrite the constitution.

Sobchak is a television celebrity who was once Russia's scandalous "it" girl (its Paris Hilton, if you will), and she went over to the side of the opposition when a wave of protests broke out following the contested December parliamentary election.

In his five-minute address to the state, Governor Bush reflected on Florida's role in an election filled with voting equipment problems, claims of confusing ballots and uncounted votes, which led to numerous lawsuits, ballot recounts and protests as Vice President Al Gore contested statewide voting results.

One demonstration last week ended with two officers shot by a man currently in custody; his actual affiliation to the protests is now being hotly contested.