Sentence examples for reason for protesting from inspiring English sources

But this year, the marchers had a very specific reason for protesting: a few days earlier, Arizona had passed S.B. 1070, a law that makes it a crime not to carry proof of legal residency, encouraging racial profiling, harassment, and discrimination against Latinos.

At first, it seemed like the show was skirting the white nationalists' reason for protesting ― in real life, white nationalists in Charlottesville were blaming "Jews" and other minorities for their problems, while in South Park, the blame was focused toward these major corporations.

She had her own reasons for protesting.

She said Mr. Tracy had interviewed her about her reasons for protesting.

Cath Mackay, a retired nurse from Bingley wearing a "Still hate Thatcher" T-shirt, said she had a number of reasons for protesting: "Apart from harrassing the Tories, we have got to standing up for the workers and the poor".

Yet as The South China Morning Post noted: "While marchers opposed to Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying were eager to declare their reasons for protesting, many of the thousands who turned out in a show of support for the administration were reticent," with some participants replying "no comment' when asked to explain their endorsement of Leung.

Recalling a series of portraits of anti-Iraq War protesters that she made in 2006 and 2007, twenty years after the photographs of congressmen, Ross told me that she became so moved by her subjects' reasons for protesting that "I would hug them and they would hug me back".

In this way, individual members of the movement, from every class, color and gender, spoke with eloquence about their reasons for protesting -- personal reasons and social reasons, national reasons and global reasons, economic reasons and political reasons reached out to thousands.

Important as these reasons are for protesting AFTAH, our own LGBT civil rights struggle shows that there are civil rights opportunities to be gained by not taking an "ignore them and they'll go away approach" towards groups like AFTAH.

World wheat prices are already surging, and they have been widely cited as one reason for protests in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab world.

The alleged failure by the Independent Police Complaints Commission and the police to provide information about the death was cited as part of the reason for protests outside Tottenham police station on 6 August.