Sentence examples for representatives protested from inspiring English sources

When one of the defense lawyers, Matthew Freedus, asked a witness, "What position was Jamadi in when he died?," the C.I.A. representatives protested, saying that the answer was classified.

Industry representatives protested strongly against a provision of Nafta that went into effect this year -- viewed by some analysts as a direct attempt to kill Mexico's maquiladora industry -- that requires manufacturers to pay duties on parts and components that originate in non-Nafta nations.

Snyder sued Westboro after church representatives protested at his son's military funeral.

The Red Cross representatives protested that the bases had, in effect, become short-term detention centers, without adequately trained personnel or effective monitoring, said several U.S. officials with knowledge of the meetings.

Minority representatives protest the problem of segregation from mainstream politics.

"But you're flying direct to Barcelona," the representative protested.

1978 Tony Mazzocchi, then senior international union labor representative, protested that "Occupational safety standards have received no support from the ACS".

At a little-noticed rally two weeks ago, the state's governor, Phil Bryant, its other U.S. Senator, Roger Wicker, and two representatives, Gregg Harper and Alan Nunnelee, protested the cuts to the Defense Department's acquisition programs.

State representative Kelly Casidy protested in 2012 against a bill requiring women to have an ultrasound before an abortion.

Minority Leader Representative John Boehner protested, "Regardless of where anyone stands on taxpayer funding for contraceptives and the abortion industry, there is no doubt that this once little-known provision in the congressional Democrats' spending plan has NOTHING (emphasis his) to do with fixing the economy and creating more American jobs.

Thanks to hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens who contacted their elected representatives to protest about the unelected, communistic world government with near-infinite powers of taxation, regulation and intervention that was proposed in early drafts of the Copenhagen treaty, there is no Copenhagen treaty.