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protest and had
The trouble was that he had virtually had to protest.
Bad relations between England and Flanders brought hard times to the shepherds scattered over the dales and downs as well as to the crowded Flemish cities, and while the English, so far, had done no more than grumble, Othon had seen what the discontent might lead to, for before he left the Low Countries the citizens of Ghent had risen in protest against the expense of supporting Edward and his troops, and the regular soldiers had found it unexpectedly difficult to put down the nasty little riot that ensued.
But it had largely disappeared on account of protest by the whites and through growing resentment on the part of the Negroes as they became more educated and got better wages.
They had let this black hole of death in Warsaw's heart exist without a cry of protest.
He opened it a crack and in doing so made as much shuffling, coughing, and scraping noise as possible in order to drown emanations from the hen who had begun to protest.
He had also stood his ground in a protest against the trial of Anthony Burns.
Partly in response to the Sharpeville incident of 1960, individual members of the ANC found it necessary to consider violence to combat what passive protest had failed to quell.
It is certain that he uses the name Abbreviators, but speaks as if they had existed before his time, and had, by overtaxation for their labour, caused much complaint and protest.
While they had yet to become electable as a government, they underlined their growing reputation as a worthwhile alternative to Labour and Conservative, offering plenty of debate in parliament and not just representing a protest vote.
Following two minor heart attacks he had to undergo an emergency quadruple heart bypass in 1983, after which he was extremely weak, but he still managed to attend a 1988 Congressional hearing with old colleagues such as Jimmy Stewart and Ginger Rogers to protest media magnate Ted Turner's plan to colorize various black-and-white films from the 1930s and 1940s.
The Combo law was supported by both major parties at the time ( PLN and PUSC ) as well as by President Rodriguez, but the first of three required legislative votes to approve it provoked the largest protest demonstrations the country had seen since 1970.
In 1958 CND had cautiously accepted direct action as a possible method of campaigning, but, largely under the influence of Canon John Collins, the CND chairman, the CND leadership opposed any sort of unlawful protest.
On July 12, 1979, an anti-disco protest in Chicago called " Disco Demolition Night " had shown that an angry backlash against disco and its culture had emerged in the United States.
The linkage of clothing with political protest had become a particularly English characteristic during the 18th century.
*" The Grave ", a song that McLean had written about the Vietnam War, was covered by George Michael in 2003 in protest against the Iraq War.
Ten days later, on 17 October 1854, at the Eureka Hotel between 1, 000 and 10, 000 miners gathered to protest that James Bentley, the hotel proprietor and prime suspect in Scobie's murder, had been acquitted by a corrupt magistrate.
In 1607, a group of Members of Parliament had written a ribald poem entitled The Parliament Fart, as a symbolic protest against the conservatism of the House of Lords and the king, James I.
Because of this and the increasingly bad weather the crew decided to return to Canada only to find out that the news about their journey and reported support from the crew of the Confidence had generated sympathy for their protest.
The rally organiser, the Hindu Rights Action Force, had called the protest over alleged discriminatory policies favouring ethnic Malays.

protest and lot
What I find appalling -- and really dangerous -- is the American assumption that the Negro is so contented with his lot here that only the cynical agents of a foreign power can rouse him to protest.
Due to the British occupation in India, a lot of protest songs about anti-imperialism / pro-socialism have been written in India.
Many units of the army also had strong objections toward the uniformly Belgian officers ; General Janssens, the army head, told them their lot would not change after independence, and they rebelled in protest.
The controversial amnesty law received a lot of national and international protest.
This decision received a lot of protest since Dino was sentenced in 2003 to eight year imprisonment for arms and drug trafficking.
Two Years Before the Mast was " conceived as a protest and written to improve the lot of the common sailor ".
” To protest Mr. James as a stereotype of a minority population in Japan because the Ohio native fails to speak or write Japanese fluently, dresses like a nerd and blogs about burgers only ends up underscoring the fact that there really aren't a lot of foreigners who fit the bill running around Japan .”
In March 1971, when it seemed as though construction of the parking lot and soccer field might proceed, another People's Park protest resulted in 44 arrests.
Randall Terry stated, " The piece was intended to be incendiary and basically a satire ," a protest against vehicles in the church parking lot which, he said, carried bumper stickers supporting pro-choice political candidates, particularly Rudy Giuliani.
In 1991 a similar protest was launched that saved Jeevanjee Gardens from the fate of being turned into a multi-story parking lot.
In a much-publicised closure of the renowned bookstore, the city marshall later auctioned the store's inventory, which was bought in a lot by Lauder and his partner to some protest from many other independent book sellers and collectors who were present at the proceedings and hoping to purchase some of the bibliophilic treasures .< ref name =" Gotham ">
Despite the obvious differences of age, generation and style between Chava Flores and Rockdrigo we should say that, at that time, such language and subjects were very innovative in Mexican rock, which until then had been confined between translated American and British covers, dancing rhythms, love ballads, some misunderstood virtuosism and a lot of semi-clandestine young protest.
This has been met with a lot of protest from locals as well as ecologists concerned with the environmental damage, stating that this move would turn the lake into a giant artificial pool.
The store's history dramatically concluded with its inventory being seized by the City Marshall for failure to pay rent, and then the estimated $ 3 million in inventory was auctioned off in one single lot to the landlords for $ 400, 000 to the protest of other bookmen and collectors present.
Given last year's book fair was a model Xuan Bin dominate the girls and caused a lot of visitors to the Book Fair to protest, the Assembly decided to refuse the person signing this Session Book Fair will be held in the application.

protest and media
There is almost no criticism of the government in the media and public protest remains severely restricted.
In protest of Washington's perceived " deification " by the city and citizens of Chicago, and because it was widely reported by local media that Washington was found by paramedics wearing women's underclothes, Art Institute of Chicago student David Nelson painted Mirth & Girth, a caricature that depicted Washington wearing women's lingerie and holding a pencil.
" Their stated intention to protest the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August, including nominating their own candidate, " Lyndon Pigasus Pig " ( an actual pig ), was also widely publicized in the media at this time.
Falun Gong was not the only target of the domestic media criticism, nor the only group to protest, but theirs was the most mobilised and steadfast response.
As public protest fell out of favor, practitioners established underground " material sites " which would produce literature and DVDs to counter the portrayal of Falun Gong in the official media.
The debate in the U. S. over rationing has enraged some in the UK and statements made by politicians such as Sarah Palin and Chuck Grassley resulted in a mass internet protest on web sites such as Twitter and Facebook under the banner title " WelovetheNHS " with positive stories of NHS experiences to counter the negative ones being expressed by these politicians and others and by certain media outlets such as Investors Business Daily and Fox News.
It was at this time that Cocker gained significant media exposure due to a notorious prank at the 1996 BRIT Awards, where he invaded the stage in protest during pop singer Michael Jackson's performance of " Earth Song " and " wiggled his backside " at the audience.
America's silent majority is bewildered by irrational protest ..." Soon thereafter, journalist Theodore H. White analyzed the previous year's elections, writing " Never have America's leading cultural media, its university thinkers, its influence makers been more intrigued by experiment and change ; but in no election have the mute masses more completely separated themselves from such leadership and thinking.
The protest grew considerably and was followed by media reports.
Vasiliyev said " Nord-Ost was a sort of protest against tarnishing our history, against not believing in your own strength, against all this pervasive, depressing, ugly stuff in mass media.
Although his speech received an ovation, the Habsburgs were once again distanced from the popular opinion of the Austrian people, as demonstrated in public protest, media criticism and disapproval voiced by Austrian politicians.
Much of this media is available today as part of the permanent collection of the Bancroft Library at Berkeley, including iconic photographs of the protest activity by student Ron Enfield ( then chief photographer for the Berkeley campus newspaper, the Daily Cal ).
" The protest was front page news in Toronto newspapers and was widely reported in the U. S. media, including the New York Times.
Mass media attention began by relaying highly controversial, and at times, violent coverage of the protest events, showcasing dramatic outcomes that would lead to higher viewing and readership rates.
After continuous abuses made on the floor of the convention of NBC correspondents – namely, interference and shadowing of the media staff by supporters of Hubert Humphrey, presumably with connections to political boss Richard J. Daley – voiced a protest of Daley's behavior and his alleged interference with freedoms of the press following Senator Abraham Ribicoff's stormy nomination of George McGovern.
On 16 May 2009, the day of the final of the Eurovision Song Contest, which was being held in Moscow and was widely covered by the world's media, Russian gay rights activists staged a protest in Moscow in defiance of the city's mayor, Yuri Luzkhov, who has long banned gay demonstrations and denounced them as " satanic ".
Various forms of self-expression and protest are sometimes restricted by governmental policy, economic circumstances, religious orthodoxy, social structures, or media monopoly.
The most intriguing aspect of the study's findings is that what mattered most was not the number of protest participants, but the amount of media coverage the event received.
Activism brought about successful political change when there was an aggrieved group, such as African-Americans or feminists or homosexuals, who felt the sting of bad policy over time, and who conducted long-range campaigns of protest together with media campaigns to change public opinion along with campaigns in the courts to change policy.
ACT-UP's account of the event notes that " The news media choose to focus on, and distort, a single Catholic demonstrator's personal protest involving a communion wafer.
The documentary aims to show the mass media bias as it juxtaposes original protest footage with those images shown on the nightly news.
The Irish electorate's rejection of the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon on 12 June 2008 was viewed by some media and political observers as a protest against Cowen and his government.

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