Sentence examples for remonstrance from inspiring English sources

'remonstrance' is a correct and usable word in written English
It generally means a formal protest or complaint, and is used in situations when someone feels strongly and wants to make their opinion known. For example: "After months of remonstrance, the protesters finally achieved their goal of changing the law."

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remonstrance

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A remonstration; disapproval; a formal, usually written, protest or objection.

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This difference is underlined by Moses's remonstrance to Galahad: "Boy, you take a big chance.

There has been remonstrance but no sabre-rattling.But forbearance alone cannot be a long-term answer to the problem of Pakistan.

Like the sly Duke Vincentio in Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure", the Fed chairman wants to pull the strings of the economy quietly, without making "rash remonstrance" of his power.But what counts as rash, and what counts as measured, depends on your reading of the economy.

Each group had an allotted ten-minute remonstrance at Japan's official doorstep.

Most of the colony's trade in sugar was illegal; Rhode Island responded to this act with an official remonstrance admitting the illegality of most of the trade and stating that strict enforcement would wreck the colony's economy.

Once again the clergy were split; many bishops and abbots attended an assembly at Paris in 1302 where they joined men of the other estates in addressing a remonstrance to the pope.

This incensed the Sichuan gentry, merchants, and landlords who had invested in the latter line, and their anti-Beijing remonstrance grew into a province-wide uprising.

The ground that I wish to take is that of earnest remonstrance against the interference of the European powers by force in South America, but to disclaim all interference on our part with Europe; to make an American cause, and adhere inflexibly to that.

During colonial times a significant battle for religious freedom, the Flushing Remonstrance (1657), was fought in Queens; it was a first victory for the tolerance necessary in an urban centre.

The Synod of Dort (1618 19) was called by the states general to pass upon the Remonstrance.

In 1610 the Dutch followers of Jacobus Arminius presented to the States General a Remonstrance in five articles that contained their theological views; thus, Dutch Arminians were also called Remonstrants.

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