Sentence examples for strenuous protests from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

The Department of Labor and the State Department opened investigations this week of job conditions at a Pennsylvania packing plant for Hershey's chocolates where several hundred international exchange students walked off their jobs last week, protesting low pay and strenuous work.

Now any hint of a link between the party and wealth appears to be taboo.Censors have been equally strenuous in their efforts to block news of protests involving thousands of people in October in the port city of Ningbo, about 150 kilometres (90 miles) south of Shanghai.

Rhodes, who wanted both annexed by the Cape Colony, resigned in protest in March 1885 and thereafter devoted strenuous efforts, both in Cape Town and London, to securing the transfer of the colony to the Cape.

Last year, Cole Real Estate Investments of Phoenix, a sponsor of nontraded real estate investment trusts, refunded $3 million to the West Warwick, R.I., pension board, which had bought shares in one of its REITs despite strenuous objections from its investment adviser, who resigned in protest.