'statement of protest' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a document, speech, or other type of communication that is intended to express an objection to something. For example, "The students released a statement of protest against the university's decision to close the library early."
177 former officials issued a third major statement of protest on Monday.
The Communist Party of the Philippines was one of the few groups to make even a statement of protest about the visit by the United States Marines.
Nato issued a statement of protest at the Russian incursions, adding: "Allies also note the extreme danger of such irresponsible behaviour".
At a 1981 meeting of Argentine writers in Buenos Aires he helped draft a statement of protest concerning writers who had disappeared.
Instead there is confusion, anguish, ambivalence, fear: broad (but not vague) feelings transformed by war and by music into a statement of protest.
Analysts said that if the block was a temporary statement of protest, it could backfire because of the avalanche of news coverage that the site had received for taking down the ads.
Last year, Chinese and Russian leaders made joint statements of protest against American plans for missile defenses, calling them destabilizing.
Members of Chicago's Occupy Wall Street group covered the pavement with chalked statements of protest: "Unhappy 51 to Obama," the pastel message said.
But Democrats are not immune to this tactic: they held votes on quixotic measures in 2007 and again in 2010 as statements of protest against certain positions held by President Bush and President Obama.
On Sunday, Sam Hamill, a poet and founder of Copper Canyon Press in Port Townsend, Wash., sent an e-mail message to 50 friends and colleagues asking them to send him anti-war poems or statements of protest action in Iraq.
Recognising this paradox perhaps, in Hamburg, thousands of artists have signed the Not In Our Name manifesto, signalling a move from artistic statements of protest to direct anti-eviction activist struggles.
