Sentence examples for remonstrate from inspiring English sources

While she would remonstrate with me, he would remain still, his hands clasped on the table.

Independent organisations called on Zambians to remonstrate by honking their horns every Friday at 5pm.

We remonstrate with the boy about wearing such provocative headgear outside an Armenian church but his response is merely to kick the church wall.As we head back to Erzurum in search of some of the city's obsidian necklaces and worry-beads, I brood again on Turkey's fractious politics.

They have so far not suffered economically or politically for being caught".It is true that most victims are unwilling to remonstrate openly with the Chinese state.

They can remonstrate, or they can fire their nuclear weapon of sacking the boss.

One of his chastened co-workers e-mailed Babbage back in 1997 explaining how Mr Wilhite would remonstrate by belting out "Choosy programmers choose GIF" (a play on a classic advertising slogan, "choosy mothers choose Jif", for a homophonous peanut-butter brand).

In 1807 one of Napoleon's generals was sent to remonstrate with the then incumbent over the local practice of chopping prisoners' heads off, including, allegedly, that of a French general whose head was then used as a football.

Others stepped forward to remonstrate fiercely with the presiding officer to force him to move the ballot boxes into the sun.

I did remonstrate with the editor of this newspaper quite vociferously – is Pippa going to get every job round here?

"I am in there fighting for my team," said Neil. "I want us to get the decisions we should get during a game – if you don't appeal, remonstrate and ask for decisions you won't get them.

However, footage has emerged of a laser being shone in Rooney's face just seconds before his penalty, and the United and England captain appeared to remonstrate with the linesman afterwards.