Sentence examples for visiting to protest from inspiring English sources
In the 1980s, during the Sandinista People's Revolution, Managua, Nicaragua had a neighborhood known as Gringolandia filled with Americans visiting to protest the Reagan Administration's backing of the Contra guerrillas in their effort to overthrow the Sandinistas.
He was forced to cut short his visit to protest tents in the square after he was heckled, according to state media.
BEIJING, Tuesday, May 24 - As a fence-mending trip to Japan by a senior Chinese official ended in acrimony on Monday, China made clear on Tuesday that the official had cut short her visit to protest possible new visits to a war shrine by Japan's prime minister.
In 2009, a crowd gathered outside the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, where he was staying during a state visit, to protest his effort to normalize relations with Turkey.
Many of them visit annually to protest against the aggressive private land grab that has claimed 90% of the coastline.
Sharpton and three Latino elected officials from New York visited Vieques to protest the U.S. Naval bombing exercises on the island, a practice that has endured for over 60 years.
The purpose of his visit was to protest outside the South Africa-China Binational Commission (BNC) meetings and to launch a lawsuit against high-ranking Chinese officials for their involvement in the suppression of Falun Gong.
I think VC Bryce Roberts, who paid a visit to protest-central Zuccotti Park when curious about what exactly #OccupyWallStreet stood for, is a good example of someone taking Meeker's first step, likening the movement to a Foo Camp, "I don't fit squarely into the camps of either the 99%er or the 1%ers.
Greenpeace activists and giant puppets visited Nestlé headquarters to protest the firm's increasing plastic output.
Persistence--Mayor Flynn remarked that in the 1960s, activists visited polluted rivers to protest and make headlines, and then they left.
Local activists plan to protest Sessions' visit to the school.
