PROTEST


Meaning of PROTEST in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a demonstration in protest at sth

There were demonstrations in protest at the food shortages.

a peaceful protest/demonstration

5,000 students began a peaceful protest which turned into a violent confrontation with police.

a protest demonstration (= in which people protest against something )

The price increases were met by a series of strikes and protest demonstrations.

a protest group

They formed a protest group and a petition of 50,000 signatures was presented at the town hall.

a protest meeting

Anti-road campaigners are holding a protest meeting today.

a protest rally

Minor clashes between police and demonstrators occurred during a protest rally.

a protest song

They were singing old protest songs from the 1960s.

a storm of protest

The killing caused a storm of protest.

a violent protest/demonstration

This incident sparked violent demonstrations outside the airbase.

protest/civil rights/peace etc march

I went on a lot of peace marches when I was a student.

protest/maintain your innocence (= say repeatedly that you are not guilty )

The prisoners continued to protest their innocence.

provoke protest(s)/an outcry

Not surprisingly, the new rules have provoked protests from gun owners.

The crackdown provoked an international outcry.

registered...protest

The delegation registered a formal protest with US embassy officials Wednesday.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

angry

The decision led to demonstrations and angry protests outside government buildings and parliament in Dublin.

The exhibit was spotlighted by Phoenix-area media because of an angry protest March 24 by veterans groups.

The leaks provoked angry protests from citizens and environmentalists.

formal

He immediately made a formal protest and Agent Monteith was summoned to mediate.

On the last day, a formal protest was read out; among the signers was Isaac Winslow.

Pacelli sent off formal notes of protest at violations of the terms of the agreement: these, too, were ignored.

Edward made a formal protest , but he was in no position to do more.

loud

Judging by the loud protests when the girls had to be evacuated to Norfolk, the enterprise lived up to the best expectations.

With a loud protest , Gao Ma took three or four rocky steps backwards, trying to keep his balance.

And loud protests are suddenly heard.

mass

Move to the Left, encourage mass protest , and they risked being marginalized in a revolutionary confrontation.

Meanwhile, ramblers are planning a mass protest at the site.

Parliament is an inadequate means to secure change; there must be mass protest on the streets.

In these conditions, to encourage mass protest over which they would have no control appeared sheer lunacy.

He wanted a campaign of direct action and mass protest , not an organisation which would take up individual cases of discrimination.

There were mass protests in the capital, Manila.

peaceful

They were just having a peaceful protest , sitting there and linking arms: no threats or fear of violence.

It was an impassioned, largely peaceful protest .

This would include many forms of peaceful protest , including sit-ins, certain public meetings, and even some pickets.

And there was in practice a very thin line between peaceful protest and the other variety.

Accordingly, the constitutions of many states contain guarantees of the right of peaceful protest .

They were arrested on 5 October while staging a peaceful protest to highlight repression in Bophuthatswana.

During May Lin had been sentenced to a 22-month term in prison for his involvement in a 1989 peaceful political protest .

University students have so far heeded the call, staging peaceful protests nationwide.

political

It also occurs in the context of political protest .

His optimism remains unflagging as he continues to sing utopian political and protest tunes.

Others sprang from social or political protest .

I organized political protests , but also got two appointments from federal criminal courts.

The key difference in these studies lies in their results for the effects of democratic forms of rule on political protest .

Gilroy reminds us that black political protest in the streets and urban crime have very successfully become fused in the public eye.

In some countries, action has been taken further in the form of political protest movements.

Despite this, the independent unions continued to call for strikes and became increasingly involved in political protest .

popular

This strategy is explicitly intended to improve living standards sufficiently to divert popular protest .

For these reasons, they have an enormous sense of solidarity with popular protest movements, trade unionists and political prisoners.

public

This had been one of the demands put forward by the Eco-glasnost group at public protests in Sofia in October 1989.

A storm of public protest followed.

The public protest meeting went ahead.

Neither law firm outings nor public protests and rallies were quite his style, in any case.

Then we shall examine how these laws were utilized to deal with large-scale public protest during the 1980s.

However public protests are also gathering momentum as people realize that shrimp farming seems to be a recipe for disaster.

Consequently, so he explained later in his memoirs, he anticipated only public protests from Washington.

Interior Ministry officials have said that they can not guarantee safety for protesters, so public protests will be banned indefinitely.

strong

The Alresford Society made strong protests , and the application was refused.

The unflattering portraits elicited strong protests from some of the campaigns.

The Ruritanian ambassador delivered a jolly strong protest concerning the recent violation of his country's sovereignty. 19.?

There were strong protests in both cities.

The music, by Brecht's contemporaries Weill and Eisler, adds atmosphere and reinforces the strong protest against tyranny and persecution.

Each has been the subject of strong protests by local people and environmental groups.

The Ruritanian ambassador delivered a highly emotional protest ... b. The Ruritanian ambassador delivered an extremely strong protest ... 26a.

violent

She is in danger of running into violent protests , said an extreme right- wing group last night.

The move had sparked violent protests among students, parents and teachers, resulting in seven injuries and ten arrests.

It can't be, an inner voice shrieked in violent protest .

History shows that the usual response to violent protest and riots was repression.

An effigy of Mr MacSharry was burned by protesting farmers in Strasbourg last week in a violent protest against the deal.

The most violent protests were in Zakazik, capital of Sharkiya governorate, in the northeast of the delta.

The issue has become a student and union cause, sometimes taking the form of violent protests against the administration.

There were now violent protests throughout the nation, calling for withdrawal.

■ NOUN

demonstration

The disabled from the Prestbury centre and other similar centres are planning a protest demonstration in Cheltenham on Friday to oppose charges.

A protest demonstration by more than 2,000 people on April 7 demanded the bodies of those killed.

Today he talks to police, leads protest demonstrations , confronts Government deputies.

But widespread resistance and protest demonstrations continued.

group

They're a kind of protest group , I guess.

Her life now revolves around a protest group fighting the road.

Now you've told the entire bloody world and we will have every shitty little protest group in the country on to us.

The protest group fighting the plan says it wasn't responsible and has condemned the attacks.

It's our first season as a protest group and we haven't quite got the publishing side sorted out.

march

Outside in the street student protest marches wander aimlessly by.

The exhibit was spotlighted by Phoenix-area media because of an angry protest March 24 by veterans groups.

A protest march of an estimated 1,000 construction workers took place on April 7 in Lima.

Also Tuesday, opposition leaders said they will mount a new challenge to riot police blocking protest marches .

Later in the day security forces stormed a candlelight protest march , beating young people who called for peaceful change.

A largely black protest march was held here recently to demand the return of safe streets.

Jesse Jackson led thousands on a protest march through Sacramento.

movement

This gave the protest movements plenty of time to galvanize support.

At no moment before, or perhaps since, had the protest movement felt better or stronger.

Over the next two years the protest movement , a mixture of genuine discontent, sincere concern and self-indulgence, petered out.

Reducing women fundamentalists to obedient bystanders is to badly misunderstand the dynamics of the religious protest movement .

May Day protest movement began in Chicago over 114 years ago.

What is needed now is the kind of global protest movement that Jubilee 2000 developed over debt relief.

A world-wide protest movement tried to prevent their execution, but they eventually went to the electric chair in 1927.

The extremes of the anti-war protest movement , which was very central to the film itself, had had their day.

rally

Up in Sheffield a protest rally against police provocation and brutality was turning ugly.

Last June, a force of state police killed 17 unarmed peasant farmers on their way to a protest rally .

All major political parties criticized the draft as undemocratic, and a protest rally attracted 50,000 people.

And in Britain the Countryside Alliance holds a protest rally .

street

One year missing from this litany of successful street protest is 1981.

Recent street protests have drawn only a few thousand demonstrators, fewer than in last December.

Angela Phillips, 1998 daring to mount street protests against the sending of their menfolk into war zones.

student

Outside in the street student protest marches wander aimlessly by.

A student protest against education loans which took place three years later in central London also ran into trouble.

Similar student protests were held on the same day in provincial centres.

On the other, the government mishandled student protest , wildly overreacting to an essentially ephemeral product of youthful idealism.

Next day the rector of the Sorbonne summoned police to a student protest against the closure of Nanterre.

■ VERB

ignore

Angry villagers claim Labour-controlled Wrekin council has ignored their protests by backing the scheme.

He bullied the school board which, in theory, employed him, and he chose to ignore the black protest .

lead

Jones led the furious protest and clearly lost some control during the match.

For the past three years, he taught mathematics at Sonoma State University and led protests against higher student fees.

Jesse Jackson led thousands on a protest march through Sacramento.

Also, two black students who helped lead recent protests over race-related incidents on campus were threatened, police records show.

The man who was arrested while leading a protest against the dismissal of workers trying to organize a union.

Police violence in every region of the country led to black community protests .

lodge

This prompted the Foreign Ministry in Bonn to lodge a protest with the Czechoslovak ambassador.

When Mansell then returned to the Williams garage and asked the team to lodge a protest , his request was refused.

mount

Angela Phillips, 1998 daring to mount street protests against the sending of their menfolk into war zones.

organize

I organized political protests , but also got two appointments from federal criminal courts.

provoke

The leaks provoked angry protests from citizens and environmentalists.

That bright idea, understandably, provoked howls of protest and is so obviously wrong that Rep.

Its activities were well enough known to provoke widespread protest in the cahiers of 1789.

It has already caused a sensation-stopping traffic and provoking a storm of protests .

Its lack of detail provoked considerable protest .

resign

Foreign Minister Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya resigns in protest at police brutality during pro-democracy demonstrations.

Binyamin Begin, the science minister and son of the former prime minister, resigned in protest .

Abdallah resigned in protest on Jan. 18.

Some deacons and elders have privately told their ministers that they plan to resign in protest if it passes.

Mr Blanc resigned in protest at the refusal to privatise the airline.

Mr Getchell resigned in protest and was replaced by Mr Oskar Tollefson.

From the wait-and-negotiate camp, Secretary of State Vance resigned his post in protest .

stage

Nearly 1,000 fans staged a sit-down protest calling for Branfoot's head, despite the victory sealed by Richard Hall's header.

They staged protests in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.

As we noted above, the riders staged an organised protest against the police searches of team hotels and vehicles.

Twenty travellers are staging a protest outside a police station demanding the return of their vehicles.

They were arrested on 5 October while staging a peaceful protest to highlight repression in Bophuthatswana.

Residents found out about the hostel plans from a secret tip-off and are now staging a local protest march this Sunday.

Opposition leaders said they would try to stage nationwide protests , but previous opposition rallies have met only lukewarm support.

But they have also staged their own protests .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a chorus of thanks/disapproval/protest etc

lodge a complaint/protest/appeal etc

A NORTH-EAST woman has lodged a complaint after an ambulance took almost an hour to arrive at an accident.

Ceausescu's lawyers immediately lodged an appeal against the verdict.

Hakkar lodged an appeal, which was turned down.

Mr Fitzgerald immediately lodged an appeal.

She agrees to go the city council and lodge a complaint.

The Wimbledon midfield player officially lodged an appeal with the Football Association against his £20,000 fine and six-month suspended ban.

This prompted the Foreign Ministry in Bonn to lodge a protest with the Czechoslovak ambassador.

When the public prosecutor appealed against that ruling, Pasko lodged a complaint in an attempt to clear his name.

sit-down strike/protest

Nearly 1,000 fans staged a sit-down protest calling for Branfoot's head, despite the victory sealed by Richard Hall's header.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Despite angry protests from environmentalists, building will go ahead as planned.

Despite their protests, the students' fees were increased.

Ignoring my protests, he took off his jacket and wrapped it around my shoulders.

Over fifteen thousand people held a mass protest against racism in the country's capital.

Prisoners have been holding hunger strikes in protest against their living conditions.

Public employees have threatened mass resignations in protest at the plans.

The protest begun by Soweto children rapidly spread throughout the country.

The ambassador lodged a formal protest against the proposals.

The school has received over 3,000 letters of protest .

The shooting provoked a storm of protest .

Three people died Thursday in violent street protests.

When two members of the team were dismissed, the rest of them walked out in protest .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Agnes ensconced herself in what had been their bedroom despite my father's protests.

At a Senate committee hearing on Wednesday, however, the tire-burning effort drew protests.

Blacks moved in protest , demanding establishment of a police precinct in Harlem.

For the past three years, he taught mathematics at Sonoma State University and led protests against higher student fees.

The Conference was met by a protest strike in Moscow and the Bolsheviks boycotted the proceedings.

The key difference in these studies lies in their results for the effects of democratic forms of rule on political protest .

The price of one man's protest .

II. verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

strongly

Neither club was pleased, supporters were furious and Liverpool were reported to have protested strongly .

The order, of course, was strongly protested .

He had protested strongly when her call-up papers came.

He protests strongly that whaling is an honorable profession.

■ NOUN

innocence

He's been on remand for twenty months and always protested his innocence .

They protested their innocence , and referred to the fact that no charges had been brought against them.

She wasn't going to protest her innocence again, but it was time this scene with its explosive potential was ended.

What is absolutely clear is that the three prisoners have themselves vehemently protested their innocence from day one.

The shipowner had protested his innocence , claiming that the loss of his ship was genuine.

He and his son John protested their innocence to a Parliamentary committee, and nothing could be proved against them.

If he protests his innocence , he is doing just what he would do if he were guilty.

But within this controversy lay another, which left two proud men protesting their innocence .

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a chorus of thanks/disapproval/protest etc

sit-down strike/protest

Nearly 1,000 fans staged a sit-down protest calling for Branfoot's head, despite the victory sealed by Richard Hall's header.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

"I don't think that's fair!" she protested.

a huge crowd of students protesting the globalization of trade

Dan protested it wasn't him who had caused the problems.

He was carried away in a police van, protesting loudly.

Marge protested that she had never had any kind of affair with Lawrence.

Mills, who has been in prison since 1987, has always protested his innocence.

Passengers protested angrily about increased rail fares.

Prisoners had climbed onto the roof to protest about conditions in the jail.

The journalists have protested to government officials about the way they were treated.

Throughout the trial Reilly protested his innocence.

When the army took power, huge crowds gathered in the capital to protest .

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Apart from protesting his innocence, Hebden had said nothing of importance since the drive down to London.

He may protest to the auditor that this is a waste of time.

Jubilant, most gave up the idea of protesting in the freezing temperatures again, but approximately 1,000 persisted with their plan.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is protesting one of the joyous traditions of hockey, says the newsletter Dispatches.

Rather than protest anymore, he took his punishment silently and disappeared into his room.

The shipowner had protested his innocence, claiming that the loss of his ship was genuine.

There was nothing they could do, she protested.

This was not a joke, Aunt Paulie would protest when the laughter began.

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