Sentence examples for wide protests from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

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.

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.

He failed, after wide protest, to slip his son into a $120,000-a-year 120,000-a-year 120,000-a-year state

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.

When a guard slid aside a plywood sheet covering the cell's barred door, the prisoners, dazed and wide-eyed, protested their innocence and asked for blankets.

This has sparked country-wide protests and general political unrest.

They talked with optimism about Europe-wide protests against austerity planned for Sept. 29.