noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a peace campaigner/protester/activist
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Several peace campaigners were arrested at the demonstration.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
anti
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The commitment of the anti-pipeline protesters does not in itself make their case any more or less valid.
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About 50 anti-Estrada protesters , members of Plunder Watch, outnumbered his supporters.
■ NOUN
student
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They claimed to be victims of political persecution following the military crackdown on student protesters .
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They will find that student protesters are extremely discriminating about what they protest against.
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He remembers stepping over student protesters to get to class.
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Also capitulating to the student protesters , television director-general Pavel Pisarev resigned on July 5.
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In early December student protesters were joined by large numbers of academics and civil servants.
■ VERB
arrest
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Police arrested a further ten protesters after detaining 130 in a noisy demonstration in central Paris on Sunday.
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At one point they arrested 240 protesters for sitting in a city square then immediately left.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Thousands of protesters took to the streets to show their anger at the government.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And Gibbs says a confrontation between protesters and politicians over the Stamp Act took place on the front porch.
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Disappointed protesters complained that the government had reformed the tax just to spite them.
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Many of these protesters will be outside agitators, even convention delegates, from anti-abortion strongholds like Texas and Florida.
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The idea, state officials insist, was merely to turn the protesters around with a show of force.
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The two-minute video shows the protesters casually entering the office before linking arms through the tubes.
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This whole extravaganza is demeaning, debasing and deeply damaging to what should be serious political discourse, the protesters complain.
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Troops were deployed to disperse the protesters, several of whom were charged with assault.