Sentence examples for protests contributed from inspiring English sources

His protests contributed to a year's delay in construction.

The protests contributed to the Liberal Party's loss in the fall election and led directly to a temporary tuition freeze that Parti Québécois premier Pauline Marois announced a day after taking office.

The 1976 protests contributed greatly to the eventual collapse of the apartheid regime.

But police have also been heavy-handed in dealing with protests, contributing in 2009 to the death of a bystander.

The Vietnam War would have continued much longer than seven years without the tidal wave of antiwar sentiment to which the Morningside Park protest contributed enormous energy and momentum.

Vigorous public protest contributed to both of these decisions and led the French environment minister to concede, "We have seen the results in the U.S.

Carolyn A. Martin, Amherst's president, said she was not surprised that student protests had contributed to the decline in fund-raising.

The announcement was made less than a month after Ms. Lumley, 63, led protests that contributed to the Brown government's defeat in the House of Commons on a policy that she said could have resulted in as few as 100 of the Gurkhas being granted residence in Britain.

Diana Furchtgott-Roth, a senior fellow at the conservative Manhattan Institute, acknowledged that the living-wage protests "have contributed to the wins in the ballot initiative in different states and localities.

But one senior member of Occupy Central, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the issue, said differences between the protest leaders contributed to their decision to go back to work. .

They were responsible for the narrative that civil rights protests were a criminal act rather than a political one, their argument being that the protests were contributing to the spread of crime.