Sentence examples for wide protest from inspiring English sources

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A new law barring transgender people in North Carolina from choosing bathrooms consistent with their gender identity has drawn wide protest, while the governors of Georgia and Virginia vetoed similar "religious liberty" bills this week.

Despite wide protests, it took 40 years to officially exonerate him.

The latter appeared over a story by Leslie Gould, the Journal's financial editor, and the wide protests turned out to be mostly his.

Also during General Hood's tenure, reports that an American guard may have desecrated a Koran stirred wide protests in the Islamic world.

North Carolina's request for extradition touched off wide protests among civil-rights advocates and others who said it would be tantamount to a death sentence.

He discourses as well on the case of the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, which, in 2005, published a dozen cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, leading to wide protests by Muslim fundamentalists and more than 100 deaths.

The new train line — which, at 66.9 billion Hong Kong dollars, is projected to be the world's most expensive per kilometer — drew wide protests over its price and the fact that a local village would be demolished to build it.

Prime Minister Brian Cowen's Fianna Fail party, its majority in Parliament thinned by resignations and by-election defeats, could face an early election if backbenchers and its coalition partner, the Greens, break ranks in the face of wide protests.

It seems amazing that in Russia, of all places, citizens demonstrating against a policy can possibly bring about a change in that policy ("After Wide Protests, Putin Softens on His Policy of Cutting Benefits," news article, Jan . 18.

They started state wide protests against Rajaji and Hindi.