Sentence examples for protests were directed from inspiring English sources

In Britain, yesterday's protests were directed as much at Tony Blair as they were at George Bush.

The Chicago Democratic Convention protests were directed at a political establishment that was responsible for Vietnam, and more broadly for a sense that skewed national priorities had victimized ordinary citizens.

In other countries - like Spain, where the Fascist General Franco was still in power, and Brazil, where a military dictatorship was in place - the protests were directed from the start against the state.

The protests were directed against a Saudi campaign to arrest and deport illegal immigrants who were given until last week to get valid work permits or leave the country.

Though the Peronists were slow to acknowledge the fact, the protests were directed at the entire political class, and at a judiciary which has failed to check corruption.As Mr Duhalde took office, Buenos Aires again reverberated to the sound of a dissatisfied public beating its pans, this time to demand elections.

Though the original protests were directed at banks, they also celebrated the notion of the 99% - the idea that the majority of Americans were in it together, and that individuals could band together to help one another.

JG It really depends on what the protests are directed to or against.

This is why their protests are directed not against the rich, but against the word manipulators — the lawyers, consultants and the news media.

The planned protests are directed at a three-day summit on trade being held by the Organization of American States across the Detroit River in Windsor, Ontario.

Their protests are directed against the latest university reform plan, proposed by Letizia Moratti, the university and research minister, at the end of January.

It has to be said that these protests are directed at a state and a governing system which lavishes the Haredi community with massive subsidies; in return they give back not one iota in the form of either national service or economic productivity.