Sentence examples for vivid protest from inspiring English sources

Months before Ms. Davis's vivid protest, the nonprofit news organization, based a few blocks from the state Capitol building in Austin, had gained access to the stream provided by state-controlled cameras there and set up a live YouTube channel for the legislative session.

MADRID — The Guggenheim museum in Bilbao is set to be the scene of a vivid protest on Saturday as about 150 semi-naked animal welfare activists, some smeared in red paint to simulate the blood of a dying bull, plan to lie on the museum grounds to demand an end to bullfighting.

She puts real drama into "God Bless the Child" and real pain into "Strange Fruit," Lewis Allen's vivid protest song about lynching ("Southern trees bear strange fruit/blood on the leaves and blood at the root"), which is followed by a solid "Ain't Nobody's Business if I Do".

At the same time that he reached jazz peaks in his flights on "Sweet Georgia Brown" and "Some of These Days," he transformed other songs into Depression anthems, including the vivid protest song "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" and "Home on the Range," a little known saddle song that he turned into the most renowned of western ballads.

Wembley Stadium will reverberate this afternoon to the sounds of the first colour-coded football rebellion as Manchester United take on Aston Villa in the Carling Cup final and fans of the Premier League champions stage a vivid protest against the club's controversial American owners.

One placard among the many vivid protest slogans seemed to capture the mood of the demonstrations: "I am having trouble condensing my displeasure at the Abbott government into a single placard-sized statement".

This long Presidential campaign has contained two modes of politics at once — the formal electoral contest and the louder and more vivid material of protest and grievance.

Russell Means, the Oglala Lakota Sioux protester, organizer and actor who led the American Indian Movement through an era of vivid, often violent protests in the 1970s, didn't win much in the way of fundamental political and social change.

Over the last 20 years, there have been intermittent waves of leftwing militancy – the huge and vivid anti-globalisation protests of the 90s, for example – while the underlying political assumptions of Britain and similar western countries have continued to move rightwards.

They include Gary Bartz's "Libra" and Stanley Cowell's "Equipoise," from Roach's 1968 album, "Members, Don't Git Weary"; George Russell's "Ezz-Thetic" and "Mr. X" from his 1956 album "Max Roach + 4"; and "Freedom Day," a bold and remarkable song from "We Insist!," Roach's vivid 1960 civil-rights protest record.

In this particular group, we can see that asking young people to talk about good sex creates a space for storytelling, protest and vivid expressions of disgust for the young female working-class sexual body.