Sentence examples for raised protests from inspiring English sources

The decision raised protests.

A somewhat progressive treaty revision with Britain was scuttled after British mercantilists raised protests at its concessions.

Other Southern Republicans have raised protests about the unemployment benefits, saying that expansion could eventually require them to raise taxes.

ROME — Skirting some restrictions on his international travel, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe arrived in Rome over the weekend to attend a United Nations food conference, and raised protests on Monday from some European and other officials.

Consumer and environmental groups have raised protests about genetically modified foods, but some agricultural biotechnology companies have done well in finding investors who recognize technologies, like Messenger's, that do not modify a plant's genetic material, he said.

A13 Furor Over Remarks on Islam The Rev. Jerry Vines, a past president of the Southern Baptist Convention, has raised protests with a speech condemning American religious pluralism and insulting the prophet of Islam, Muhammad.

The regulation raised protest Tuesday from New York's largest health care union, 1199 S.E.I.U.

Drafts of the report have been circulating for months, but a heavy round of rewriting and cutting by White House officials in late April raised protest among E.P.A. officials working on the report.

But opponents of genetically modified foods are already raising protests.

"I don't think about, 'Is this the kind of joke that will raise protests?' " Mr. Bell said.

Earlier this year, Microsoft bought a 5% stake in ntl, another British cable-and-communications group.Mr Armstrong's deals are bound to raise protests from rivals and politicians.