Sentence examples for strenuous protest from inspiring English sources

WASHINGTON — A last-minute Bush administration plan to grant sweeping new protections to health care providers who oppose abortion and other procedures on religious or moral grounds has provoked a torrent of objections, including a strenuous protest from the government agency that enforces job discrimination laws.

It was erected, Mr. Salwen wrote, "over the Hamilton family's strenuous protests" in 1905.

(In the face of strenuous protests the rules were revised, but still seem to favor the usual suspects).

Because the alliance has expanded to Russia's borders, taking in a dozen ex-communist members over strenuous protests from the Kremlin, it is all the more desirable to send a strong signal.

Providentially, we had de-numbed enough to put him out and - against his strenuous protests that there were perfectly good second-hand shops in Kendal - treated him to some fine new mountainwear courtesy of the traditionally tight Guardian.

He would spend the next 12 years on Pakistan's 8,500-strong death row, and was finally hanged on Tuesday night, despite strenuous protests from supporters in Pakistan and all over the world.

After strenuous protests from governors of both parties, the Bush administration said Sunday that it would reconsider tough new rules on the financing of Medicaid that could limit the states' ability to provide health care for millions of poor people.

No explanation for her exclusion has been forthcoming, despite the strenuous protests of her Mills colleagues, the American Musicological Society, Senator Dick Durbin, of Illinois, the British government, and Leon Botstein, the president of Bard College, who had invited her to participate in last summer's Bard Music Festival.

Despite strenuous protests from some legislators whose districts include the affected institutions, lawmakers and top aides in both the Senate and the Assembly said that even before the current and future governors spoke out, the prevailing sense in Albany was that the Legislature — the Republican-controlled Senate, in particular — would not stand in the way of the proposed changes.

Although the court had already issued new rules on recusals, the incident also raised strenuous protests from court critics across the state, many of whom were already contending that the court overstepped its bounds in a major 1997 ruling that revamped the state's heavily local system of financing schools.

The rest is strenuous process.