I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a demonstration in protest at sth
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There were demonstrations in protest at the food shortages.
a peaceful protest/demonstration
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5,000 students began a peaceful protest which turned into a violent confrontation with police.
a protest demonstration (= in which people protest against something )
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The price increases were met by a series of strikes and protest demonstrations.
a protest group
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They formed a protest group and a petition of 50,000 signatures was presented at the town hall.
a protest meeting
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Anti-road campaigners are holding a protest meeting today.
a protest rally
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Minor clashes between police and demonstrators occurred during a protest rally.
a protest song
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They were singing old protest songs from the 1960s.
a storm of protest
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The killing caused a storm of protest.
a violent protest/demonstration
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This incident sparked violent demonstrations outside the airbase.
protest/civil rights/peace etc march
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I went on a lot of peace marches when I was a student.
protest/maintain your innocence (= say repeatedly that you are not guilty )
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The prisoners continued to protest their innocence.
provoke protest(s)/an outcry
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Not surprisingly, the new rules have provoked protests from gun owners.
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The crackdown provoked an international outcry.
registered...protest
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The delegation registered a formal protest with US embassy officials Wednesday.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
angry
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The decision led to demonstrations and angry protests outside government buildings and parliament in Dublin.
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The exhibit was spotlighted by Phoenix-area media because of an angry protest March 24 by veterans groups.
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The leaks provoked angry protests from citizens and environmentalists.
formal
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He immediately made a formal protest and Agent Monteith was summoned to mediate.
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On the last day, a formal protest was read out; among the signers was Isaac Winslow.
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Pacelli sent off formal notes of protest at violations of the terms of the agreement: these, too, were ignored.
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Edward made a formal protest , but he was in no position to do more.
loud
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Judging by the loud protests when the girls had to be evacuated to Norfolk, the enterprise lived up to the best expectations.
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With a loud protest , Gao Ma took three or four rocky steps backwards, trying to keep his balance.
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And loud protests are suddenly heard.
mass
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Move to the Left, encourage mass protest , and they risked being marginalized in a revolutionary confrontation.
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Meanwhile, ramblers are planning a mass protest at the site.
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Parliament is an inadequate means to secure change; there must be mass protest on the streets.
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In these conditions, to encourage mass protest over which they would have no control appeared sheer lunacy.
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He wanted a campaign of direct action and mass protest , not an organisation which would take up individual cases of discrimination.
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There were mass protests in the capital, Manila.
peaceful
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They were just having a peaceful protest , sitting there and linking arms: no threats or fear of violence.
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It was an impassioned, largely peaceful protest .
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This would include many forms of peaceful protest , including sit-ins, certain public meetings, and even some pickets.
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And there was in practice a very thin line between peaceful protest and the other variety.
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Accordingly, the constitutions of many states contain guarantees of the right of peaceful protest .
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They were arrested on 5 October while staging a peaceful protest to highlight repression in Bophuthatswana.
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During May Lin had been sentenced to a 22-month term in prison for his involvement in a 1989 peaceful political protest .
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University students have so far heeded the call, staging peaceful protests nationwide.
political
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It also occurs in the context of political protest .
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His optimism remains unflagging as he continues to sing utopian political and protest tunes.
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Others sprang from social or political protest .
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I organized political protests , but also got two appointments from federal criminal courts.
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The key difference in these studies lies in their results for the effects of democratic forms of rule on political protest .
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Gilroy reminds us that black political protest in the streets and urban crime have very successfully become fused in the public eye.
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In some countries, action has been taken further in the form of political protest movements.
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Despite this, the independent unions continued to call for strikes and became increasingly involved in political protest .
popular
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This strategy is explicitly intended to improve living standards sufficiently to divert popular protest .
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For these reasons, they have an enormous sense of solidarity with popular protest movements, trade unionists and political prisoners.
public
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This had been one of the demands put forward by the Eco-glasnost group at public protests in Sofia in October 1989.
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A storm of public protest followed.
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The public protest meeting went ahead.
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Neither law firm outings nor public protests and rallies were quite his style, in any case.
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Then we shall examine how these laws were utilized to deal with large-scale public protest during the 1980s.
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However public protests are also gathering momentum as people realize that shrimp farming seems to be a recipe for disaster.
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Consequently, so he explained later in his memoirs, he anticipated only public protests from Washington.
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Interior Ministry officials have said that they can not guarantee safety for protesters, so public protests will be banned indefinitely.
strong
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The Alresford Society made strong protests , and the application was refused.
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The unflattering portraits elicited strong protests from some of the campaigns.
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The Ruritanian ambassador delivered a jolly strong protest concerning the recent violation of his country's sovereignty. 19.?
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There were strong protests in both cities.
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The music, by Brecht's contemporaries Weill and Eisler, adds atmosphere and reinforces the strong protest against tyranny and persecution.
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Each has been the subject of strong protests by local people and environmental groups.
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The Ruritanian ambassador delivered a highly emotional protest ... b. The Ruritanian ambassador delivered an extremely strong protest ... 26a.
violent
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She is in danger of running into violent protests , said an extreme right- wing group last night.
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The move had sparked violent protests among students, parents and teachers, resulting in seven injuries and ten arrests.
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It can't be, an inner voice shrieked in violent protest .
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History shows that the usual response to violent protest and riots was repression.
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An effigy of Mr MacSharry was burned by protesting farmers in Strasbourg last week in a violent protest against the deal.
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The most violent protests were in Zakazik, capital of Sharkiya governorate, in the northeast of the delta.
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The issue has become a student and union cause, sometimes taking the form of violent protests against the administration.
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There were now violent protests throughout the nation, calling for withdrawal.
■ NOUN
demonstration
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The disabled from the Prestbury centre and other similar centres are planning a protest demonstration in Cheltenham on Friday to oppose charges.
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A protest demonstration by more than 2,000 people on April 7 demanded the bodies of those killed.
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Today he talks to police, leads protest demonstrations , confronts Government deputies.
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But widespread resistance and protest demonstrations continued.
group
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They're a kind of protest group , I guess.
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Her life now revolves around a protest group fighting the road.
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Now you've told the entire bloody world and we will have every shitty little protest group in the country on to us.
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The protest group fighting the plan says it wasn't responsible and has condemned the attacks.
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It's our first season as a protest group and we haven't quite got the publishing side sorted out.
march
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Outside in the street student protest marches wander aimlessly by.
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The exhibit was spotlighted by Phoenix-area media because of an angry protest March 24 by veterans groups.
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A protest march of an estimated 1,000 construction workers took place on April 7 in Lima.
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Also Tuesday, opposition leaders said they will mount a new challenge to riot police blocking protest marches .
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Later in the day security forces stormed a candlelight protest march , beating young people who called for peaceful change.
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A largely black protest march was held here recently to demand the return of safe streets.
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Jesse Jackson led thousands on a protest march through Sacramento.
movement
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This gave the protest movements plenty of time to galvanize support.
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At no moment before, or perhaps since, had the protest movement felt better or stronger.
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Over the next two years the protest movement , a mixture of genuine discontent, sincere concern and self-indulgence, petered out.
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Reducing women fundamentalists to obedient bystanders is to badly misunderstand the dynamics of the religious protest movement .
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May Day protest movement began in Chicago over 114 years ago.
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What is needed now is the kind of global protest movement that Jubilee 2000 developed over debt relief.
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A world-wide protest movement tried to prevent their execution, but they eventually went to the electric chair in 1927.
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The extremes of the anti-war protest movement , which was very central to the film itself, had had their day.
rally
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Up in Sheffield a protest rally against police provocation and brutality was turning ugly.
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Last June, a force of state police killed 17 unarmed peasant farmers on their way to a protest rally .
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All major political parties criticized the draft as undemocratic, and a protest rally attracted 50,000 people.
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And in Britain the Countryside Alliance holds a protest rally .
street
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One year missing from this litany of successful street protest is 1981.
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Recent street protests have drawn only a few thousand demonstrators, fewer than in last December.
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Angela Phillips, 1998 daring to mount street protests against the sending of their menfolk into war zones.
student
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Outside in the street student protest marches wander aimlessly by.
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A student protest against education loans which took place three years later in central London also ran into trouble.
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Similar student protests were held on the same day in provincial centres.
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On the other, the government mishandled student protest , wildly overreacting to an essentially ephemeral product of youthful idealism.
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Next day the rector of the Sorbonne summoned police to a student protest against the closure of Nanterre.
■ VERB
ignore
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Angry villagers claim Labour-controlled Wrekin council has ignored their protests by backing the scheme.
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He bullied the school board which, in theory, employed him, and he chose to ignore the black protest .
lead
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Jones led the furious protest and clearly lost some control during the match.
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For the past three years, he taught mathematics at Sonoma State University and led protests against higher student fees.
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Jesse Jackson led thousands on a protest march through Sacramento.
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Also, two black students who helped lead recent protests over race-related incidents on campus were threatened, police records show.
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The man who was arrested while leading a protest against the dismissal of workers trying to organize a union.
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Police violence in every region of the country led to black community protests .
lodge
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This prompted the Foreign Ministry in Bonn to lodge a protest with the Czechoslovak ambassador.
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When Mansell then returned to the Williams garage and asked the team to lodge a protest , his request was refused.
mount
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Angela Phillips, 1998 daring to mount street protests against the sending of their menfolk into war zones.
organize
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I organized political protests , but also got two appointments from federal criminal courts.
provoke
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The leaks provoked angry protests from citizens and environmentalists.
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That bright idea, understandably, provoked howls of protest and is so obviously wrong that Rep.
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Its activities were well enough known to provoke widespread protest in the cahiers of 1789.
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It has already caused a sensation-stopping traffic and provoking a storm of protests .
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Its lack of detail provoked considerable protest .
resign
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Foreign Minister Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya resigns in protest at police brutality during pro-democracy demonstrations.
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Binyamin Begin, the science minister and son of the former prime minister, resigned in protest .
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Abdallah resigned in protest on Jan. 18.
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Some deacons and elders have privately told their ministers that they plan to resign in protest if it passes.
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Mr Blanc resigned in protest at the refusal to privatise the airline.
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Mr Getchell resigned in protest and was replaced by Mr Oskar Tollefson.
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From the wait-and-negotiate camp, Secretary of State Vance resigned his post in protest .
stage
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Nearly 1,000 fans staged a sit-down protest calling for Branfoot's head, despite the victory sealed by Richard Hall's header.
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They staged protests in the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.
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As we noted above, the riders staged an organised protest against the police searches of team hotels and vehicles.
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Twenty travellers are staging a protest outside a police station demanding the return of their vehicles.
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They were arrested on 5 October while staging a peaceful protest to highlight repression in Bophuthatswana.
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Residents found out about the hostel plans from a secret tip-off and are now staging a local protest march this Sunday.
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Opposition leaders said they would try to stage nationwide protests , but previous opposition rallies have met only lukewarm support.
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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
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A NORTH-EAST woman has lodged a complaint after an ambulance took almost an hour to arrive at an accident.
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Ceausescu's lawyers immediately lodged an appeal against the verdict.
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Hakkar lodged an appeal, which was turned down.
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Mr Fitzgerald immediately lodged an appeal.
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She agrees to go the city council and lodge a complaint.
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The Wimbledon midfield player officially lodged an appeal with the Football Association against his £20,000 fine and six-month suspended ban.
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This prompted the Foreign Ministry in Bonn to lodge a protest with the Czechoslovak ambassador.
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When the public prosecutor appealed against that ruling, Pasko lodged a complaint in an attempt to clear his name.
sit-down strike/protest
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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
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Despite angry protests from environmentalists, building will go ahead as planned.
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Despite their protests, the students' fees were increased.
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Ignoring my protests, he took off his jacket and wrapped it around my shoulders.
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Over fifteen thousand people held a mass protest against racism in the country's capital.
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Prisoners have been holding hunger strikes in protest against their living conditions.
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Public employees have threatened mass resignations in protest at the plans.
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The protest begun by Soweto children rapidly spread throughout the country.
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The ambassador lodged a formal protest against the proposals.
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The school has received over 3,000 letters of protest .
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The shooting provoked a storm of protest .
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Three people died Thursday in violent street protests.
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When two members of the team were dismissed, the rest of them walked out in protest .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Agnes ensconced herself in what had been their bedroom despite my father's protests.
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At a Senate committee hearing on Wednesday, however, the tire-burning effort drew protests.
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Blacks moved in protest , demanding establishment of a police precinct in Harlem.
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For the past three years, he taught mathematics at Sonoma State University and led protests against higher student fees.
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The Conference was met by a protest strike in Moscow and the Bolsheviks boycotted the proceedings.
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The key difference in these studies lies in their results for the effects of democratic forms of rule on political protest .
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The price of one man's protest .
II. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
strongly
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Neither club was pleased, supporters were furious and Liverpool were reported to have protested strongly .
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The order, of course, was strongly protested .
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He had protested strongly when her call-up papers came.
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He protests strongly that whaling is an honorable profession.
■ NOUN
innocence
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He's been on remand for twenty months and always protested his innocence .
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They protested their innocence , and referred to the fact that no charges had been brought against them.
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She wasn't going to protest her innocence again, but it was time this scene with its explosive potential was ended.
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What is absolutely clear is that the three prisoners have themselves vehemently protested their innocence from day one.
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The shipowner had protested his innocence , claiming that the loss of his ship was genuine.
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He and his son John protested their innocence to a Parliamentary committee, and nothing could be proved against them.
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If he protests his innocence , he is doing just what he would do if he were guilty.
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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
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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
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"I don't think that's fair!" she protested.
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a huge crowd of students protesting the globalization of trade
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Dan protested it wasn't him who had caused the problems.
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He was carried away in a police van, protesting loudly.
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Marge protested that she had never had any kind of affair with Lawrence.
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Mills, who has been in prison since 1987, has always protested his innocence.
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Passengers protested angrily about increased rail fares.
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Prisoners had climbed onto the roof to protest about conditions in the jail.
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The journalists have protested to government officials about the way they were treated.
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Throughout the trial Reilly protested his innocence.
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When the army took power, huge crowds gathered in the capital to protest .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Apart from protesting his innocence, Hebden had said nothing of importance since the drive down to London.
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He may protest to the auditor that this is a waste of time.
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Jubilant, most gave up the idea of protesting in the freezing temperatures again, but approximately 1,000 persisted with their plan.
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People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is protesting one of the joyous traditions of hockey, says the newsletter Dispatches.
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Rather than protest anymore, he took his punishment silently and disappeared into his room.
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The shipowner had protested his innocence, claiming that the loss of his ship was genuine.
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There was nothing they could do, she protested.
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This was not a joke, Aunt Paulie would protest when the laughter began.