Sentence examples for striking protest from inspiring English sources

It promised a striking protest to come, but at times offered an incongruous vision of Boston.

The Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Marcus Peters has become the latest NFL player to make a striking protest, raising his fist as the national anthem played before his team's season opener against the San Diego Chargers on Sunday afternoon.

You could have argued that a lot of the big, contentious issues during the Blair years don't really make for striking protest songs: the most skilled songwriter would be hard pushed to come up with something catchy about top-up fees or City Academies or Private Finance Initiative.

Last Thusday, MPs narrowly failed to approve the plan - as striking workers protested in Nicosia.

In Spain, striking workers protesting against a 5 percent pay cut, forced the closure of the subway in Madrid for the second day on Tuesday.

In the largest display of this tension so far, some 8,000 striking workers protested yesterday outside Verizon's headquarters on Avenue of the Americas at 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan.

In New York, about 8,000 striking workers protested outside the company's headquarters on Avenue of the Americas at 42nd Street in a rally that spilled into Bryant Park.

Although in Spain, at least, local taxi associations are still striking and protesting at the presence of Uber and other ride-hailing firms, claiming that rules which are supposed to limit the number of taxi licenses to operate are being broken.

But could the French people actually influence any of her policies by striking and protesting?

Its real purpose is political: to diminish the moral power of hunger-striking as protest by medicalizing it.

For more than a year, workers around Egypt had been striking, periodically, to protest high rates of inflation and unemployment, but they never coordinated their protests.