Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] protest at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition Devi Lal , the former Deputy Prime Minister [ see p. 37653 for his dismissal in August ] , used the opportunity to launch a series of attacks on Singh and on Sept. 30 he resigned his Lok Sabha ( lower house of parliament ) seat in protest at the " style , timing and manner " of the implementation of the Mandal Commission recommendations . |
| 2 | Muldoon , who had won 59 per cent of the vote in Tamaki in the 1990 general election [ for which see pp. 37781-82 ] , had resigned his seat in protest at the economic , health and social welfare policies of Prime Minister Jim Bolger [ see p. 38676 ] , and had appealed to voters to send a message to the government to change its ways . |
| 3 | Riot police broke up a demonstration in protest at the government 's response but most teachers returned to work when the schools reopened on March 5 . |
| 4 | Venice 's parish priests were called together on 2 April by Don Aldo Marangoni , head of the city 's Ufficio Chiese ( Churches ' Department ) to discuss their action in protest at the city administration 's failure to provide adequate financial support . |
| 5 | As stated above , exceptions were introduced for those with very limited means , but these did not prevent a huge storm of protest at the time of the introduction of the new system . |
| 6 | SUNDERLAND players yesterday joined the chorus of protest at the treatment of boss Malcolm Crosby . |
| 7 | They were at this time boycotting the Security Council in protest at the UN refusal to replace Taiwan by Communist China ; hence there was no Soviet veto on sending UN forces to support South Korea . |
| 8 | On March 26 Germany halted military aid and arms supplies to its NATO ally Turkey in protest at the latter 's repression of its Kurdish minority [ see p. 38822 ] . |
| 9 | AMERICAN restaurants and government buildings were attacked as French farmers went on the rampage in protest at the cuts agreed in the Gatt trade talks . |
| 10 | Karami 's attempts to incorporate all major militia factions in his government failed when the LF chief , Samir Geaga , refused a Cabinet post in protest at the pro-Syrian stance of most of the ministers . |
| 11 | The declaration of the reserve followed a long-running campaign by environmental groups , led by Survival International , which had threatened to organize a boycott of next year 's UNCED conference in protest at the Brazilian government 's repeated failure to honour promises to recognize Yanomami land rights . |
| 12 | The Palestinians eventually boycotted the meeting in protest at the US and Russian decision to abide by the so-called " Madrid formula " which stipulated that the Palestinian delegation would include no PLO members , no East Jerusalem Palestinians and no Palestinians from the diaspora outside the occupied territories . |
| 13 | The Islamic Jihad of Palestine group claimed that it had planted the bomb in protest at the Rishon Le Zion killings . |
| 14 | It was suggested that one of the reasons for this was that his main work as an advocate had been on behalf of trade unions , and on one occasion he had walked out of the National Industrial Relations Court in protest at the judge . |
| 15 | Thousands of students demonstrated in Cairo the following day in protest at the death of one student in the fracas . |
| 16 | In the event , Israel walked out of the talks on the first day in protest at the presence of the head of the Palestinian delegation , Mohammed Hallaj , director of the Washington-based Centre for Policy Analysis on Palestine and a former member of the Palestine National Council ( PNC — the Palestinian " parliament-in-exile " ) . |
| 17 | The two men were held for several hours by more than 100 students who occupied the Ministry of Education in protest at the non-payments of grants and university registration procedures . |
| 18 | Mr Endara , looking drawn from a 16-day-hunger strike in protest at the government refusal to recognise his victory in May 's annulled election , was unharmed but two aides at the Liberal Party office , which serves as the opposition coalition headquarters , were arrested . |
| 19 | The new , uniform business rate generated similar outrage : nowhere was the anger better illustrated than in Bath , a city epitomising Thatcherite entrepreneurial success , where there was a shopkeepers ' strike in protest at the damage it was wreaking on their livelihoods . |
| 20 | For example , in May 1974 the Protestant Ulster Workers ' Council called a successful strike in protest at the Sunningdale proposals for power-sharing between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland . |
| 21 | The latter proposed an 18-point austerity plan but this was rejected by the council , and on Oct. 2 some 5,000 municipal workers went on strike in protest at the non-payment of their salaries . |
| 22 | Already since April 11 railway workers in western Georgia and dockers at the Black Sea ports had been on strike in protest at the presence of Soviet troops in the troubled South Ossetia region . |
| 23 | On Sept. 10 , millions of Kashmir Moslems responded to the call issued by pro-Pakistani groups for an indefinite strike in protest at the alleged forcible entry of security forces on Sept. 9 into the shrine of Hazrat Bal and the molesting of worshippers . |
| 24 | Of 10,000,000 workers polled , only 10 per cent said that they would support a strike in protest at the government 's economic policies , although 86 per cent expressed willingness to participate in protest demonstrations . |
| 25 | However , the meeting agreed not to walk out on strike in protest at the 1,600 job losses , 67 at Glasgow , announced by the company 's receivers on Friday . |
| 26 | He 's on hunger strike in protest at the Home Secretary refusal to move him to Cardiff gaol near his home at Treorky in mid-Glamorgan . |
| 27 | On Nov. 14 , the BSP organized a rally in protest at the reading of a bill to confiscate its property . |
| 28 | It is clear though that the economic tide was running very much in the party 's direction in 1915–16 ; in 1915 the first industrial tariffs for half a century were imposed , and by a Liberal Chancellor ; in 1916 even the Manchester Chamber of Commerce joined in the demand for industrial protection , causing the resignation of its chairman in protest at the abandonment of a century of belief in free trade . |
| 29 | A man has set fire to himself outside the Houses of Parliament in protest at the Bosnian situation . |
| 30 | Two months later , there were 752 arrests when 3,000 demonstrators participated in a four-day attempted blockade of the Upper Heyford base in protest at the F1-11 nuclear bombers located there . |