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How to use the word protest in a Sentence? Page #13

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This just puts us right back into the cauldron here, and we’re going to have another crisis in 90 days, it was more of a protest vote than anything else.

Lindsey Graham

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply seeks to be himself and no one else.

Claude Monet

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6 years ago

Despite strong warning from the international community, North Korea launched a ballistic missile again, this is totally unacceptable and we strongly protest it. North Korea's missile launch is a serious threat to Japan and clearly violate against the UN resolution.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We are a tight-knit community here. We don't want a protest because we want justice, but if Roy Oliver is cleared, the community will stand up and rally.

Sarah Evans

Found on CNN
7 years ago

The reality is that you have no First Amendment right to free speech or assembly on the center lane on the freeway or the entrance to an international airport or the middle of a train track, it's already against the law to be there; all we're doing is increasing the penalty. We are not taking a single protest or free speech activity that is currently legal and making it illegal by passing these bills.

Nick Zerwas

Found on CNN
7 years ago

We support people's right to protest and certainly, in this instance, the Native Americans' right to peacefully and prayerfully gather and note their objections with, second, I would say that there are time and place restrictions on first amendment rights.

Matt Konenkamp

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I think it's going to be, unfortunately, more violence just like we saw with the Milo protest, i'll tell you what I'd love to see happen.

Lauren Cooley

Found on CNN
7 years ago

You can protest all you want, but you can’t protest up on a roadway. It’s dangerous for everybody.

Keith Kempenich

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

El Sexto has become a prominent target of the Cuban regime because his graffiti art is one of the elite’s most feared methods of protest as it exposes their true nature, el Sexto’s art unmasks the tyranny in ways white papers and press accounts cannot. Now that Castro will receive a pompous farewell, the regime will take measures to silence all voices for democracy and to drown out calls for reform.

Thor Halvorssen

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It’s my form of protest against the dictatorship, my way of helping the fight for human rights and liberty.

Gustavo Diaz

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I don’t personally blame the children, this is exactly what America is about. This is exactly what freedom of speech is about – freedom of protest. You stand upf or what you believe in. Whether or not I agree is not really the point.

Lee Francis

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Our protest is going on peacefully today on Thursday. Our community workers inside the tank farm have joined the protest as we speak, nobody is going in and out of the facility since we've started but Chevron has airlifted their senior staff from there.

Collins Edema

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Our protest will continue until Chevron listens to our demands. We at Ugborodo are urging other Itsekiri communities to follow suit and shut down Chevron activities in our communities.

Collins Edema

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We are hiring. Get out of that protest line and put an application in.

Dallas Police Chief David Brown

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It has a chilling effect on the exercise of free speech, which is so critical in a democratic society, that's dangerous. I think that could change the whole dynamic of protest.

Terry Gilbert

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I feel that people in general, no matter what the race is, should come together as one united family, i want everyone to protest the right way. Protest in peace. ... No violence, whatsoever.

Cameron Sterling

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Become a part of that solution. Serve your communities. Don't be a part of the problem. We're hiring, get off that protest line and put an application in, and we'll put you in your neighborhood, and we will help you resolve some of the problems you're protesting about.

Dallas Police Chief David Brown

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

This is not a time to make a protest vote. This is a time to treat your vote as though that is the single vote that will determine the next government.

Malcolm Turnbull

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

It is a protest against a government that takes away my hopes and dreams.

Jose Leon

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Joy expressed during a tragedy is, in a way, it's own protest. (In reference to not cancelling the Tony Awards becsuse of the Orlando shootings)

Leslie Odom Jr.

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7 years ago

I think there’ll be enough of the volatile Trump that kids will want to vote the other way, i think there’ll be a protest vote against what Trump represents and then the only choice there is Hillary.

Robert Weiner

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

When his mother tried to tell him off for playing with these things too much and not studying enough, he wouldn’t talk back but he would protest in other ways, like going on a hunger strike.

Ko Yong Suk

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Some people in America feel that politics doesn't speak to their lives and Trump is the ultimate protest vote.

Australian Opposition leader Bill Shorten

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We respect the rights of everyone to protest and get their word out.

Anaheim Police Sergeant Daron Wyatt

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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