The monk Savonarola, brought over from the Renaissance and placed against the background of Munich at the turn of the century, protests against the luxurious works displayed in the art-shop of M. Bluthenzweig ; ;

He and also Mr. Cowley and Mr. Warren have fallen to the temptation which besets many of us to read into our authors -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, for example, and Herman Melville -- protests against modernism, material progress, and science which are genuine protests of our own but may not have been theirs.

Many participants were among those 11 million or more protesters that on the weekend of February 15, 2003, participated in global protests against the imminent Iraq war and were dubbed the " world's second superpower " by an editorial in the New York Times.

On the other hand, there have been notable protests against certain globalization policies by Third World workers as in the cause of Indian farmers protesting against patenting seeds.

Sakharov was arrested on January 22, 1980, following his public protests against the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, and was sent to internal exile in the city of Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod, a city that was off-limits to foreigners.

" Historian Ron Chernow says of this " he wasn't calling for peaceful protests or civil disobedience: he was calling for outright rebellion, if needed, against the federal government of which he was vice president.

There were widespread protests against The Birth of a Nation, and it was banned in several cities.

Three of the accused were ultimately shot by firing squad, against protests of the new Kerensky government of Russia.

In 1989, the death of former general secretary Hu Yaobang helped to spark the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, during which students and others campaigned for several months, speaking out against corruption and in favour of greater political reform, including democratic rights and freedom of speech.

* Holger Nehring, ' Diverging perceptions of security: NATO and the protests against nuclear weapons ', in Andreas Wenger, et al.

There were isolated protests among the population against the draft implemented by the Sandinista government, which even resulted in full-blown street clashes in Masaya in 1988.

* 2010 – Arab Spring: Popular protests begin in Algeria against the government.

As described by Ronald Bayer, a psychiatrist and gay rights activist, specific protests by gay rights activists against the APA began in 1970 when the organization held its convention in San Francisco.

The environmental movement borrowed tactics from both the successful civil rights movement and the protests against the Vietnam war.

Washington opposed the 1765 Stamp Act, the first direct tax on the colonies, and began taking a leading role in the growing colonial resistance when protests against the Townshend Acts ( enacted in 1767 ) became widespread.

The autogolpe ( palace coup ) failed due to unified, strong protests by most elements of Guatemalan society, international pressure, and the army's enforcement of the decisions of the Court of Constitutionality, which ruled against the attempted takeover.

In 2007 there were big protests against the government, resulting in the appointment of a new prime minister.

Examples of these new age " hacks " include such things as the revolution of social networking brought about by the Facebook timeline, the massive and successful protests against SOPA and PIPA, and the social media driven revolutions currently happening in Russia, Syria, and Yemen as well as the successful revolutions in Libya, Egypt, and Tunisia.

In February 2011, anti-government mass protests sprang up against Gaddafi in Benghazi, Bayda and Zintan, in the context of the wider Arab Spring.

* 2002 – Two 14-year-old South Korean girls are struck and killed by a United States Army armored vehicle, leading to months of public protests against the US.

* 1774 – Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts

As president ( 1809 – 17 ), after the failure of diplomatic protests and a trade embargo against Great Britain, he led the nation into the War of 1812.

In late 1989 and early 1990, Mobutu was weakened by a series of domestic protests, by heightened international criticism of his regime's human rights practices, by a faltering economy, and by government corruption, most notably his massive embezzlement of government funds for personal use.

Public protests against the President in 2011 and early 2012 were triggered by the arrest of a judge accused of corruption, which drew the judiciary into opposition.

The global economic crisis led to a drop in tourism which prevented many of the projects going ahead to their planned extent, and allegations of corruption and incompetence were made against the organisers, while tax increases for cultural activity led to public protests and the general economic conditions sparked riots.

That an organization of this character should have outlived its usefulness and ushered in intolerable abuses, such as corruption was inevitable ; from the mid-fifteenth century protests were raised against the enormities of the court.

The protests were initially against unemployment, economic conditions and corruption, as well as against the government's proposals to modify the constitution of Yemen.

In response to the growing corruption, the economic dislocation, and the sense that reforms in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were leaving China behind, the Tiananmen Square protests erupted in 1989.

On February 20, 2011, thousands took to the streets of Rabat, Casablanca, Tangier and Marrakesh in peaceful protests demanding a new constitution, a change in government and an end to corruption.

The protests were marked by counter-protests and widespread charges of corruption and election fraud in the student newspaper.

Amnesty International notes that China “ has the largest recorded number of imprisoned journalists and cyber-dissidents in the world .” The offences of which they are accused include communicating with groups abroad, signing online petitions, and calling for reform and an end to corruption .< ref >< nowiki > http :// www. internetfreedom. org / Background </ nowiki > Background Global Internet Freedom Consortium ( do not download anything from this site – it is a known Trojan supplier )</ ref > The escalation of the government's effort to neutralize critical online opinion comes after a series of large anti-Japanese, anti-pollution, anti-corruption protests, and ethnic riots, many of which were organized or publicized using instant messaging services, chat rooms, and text messages.

The popular protests throughout the Arab world of late 2010 to early 2011 are directed against the governments and the associated political corruption, paired with the demand for more democratic rights.

The U. S. framed the war as part of its policy of containment of Communism in south Asia, but American forces were frustrated by an inability to engage the enemy in decisive battles, corruption and incompetence in the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and ever increasing protests at home.

In 1970, corruption prompted student protests and an investigation by a government commission.

Ben Ali and his family are accused of corruption, which was a major contribution to the 2010 – 2011 Tunisian protests which led to the fall of his government.

Analogous to the number 45 in reference to the protests of John Wilkes against British corruption.

Economic problems, corruption and the conviction of Gandhi led to widespread protests against the Congress ( R ) government, which responded by imposing a State of Emergency.

Their protests, which grew despite government efforts to contain them, although not strictly anti-Government in nature, called for an end to official corruption and for the defense of freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution of the People's Republic of China.

The growing number of public protests against corruption in China, along with the increasing wealth gap, require political action to stabilize the country.

Responding to critics, he stated that the original student protests were in fact well-founded and directed at corruption and other ills in Chinese society, and that the Communist Party failed to respond constructively to their demands.

The protests have brought together diverse political persuasions in response to recent government corruption scandals and worries regarding upcoming EU accession, and are calling for the resignation of the Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor and early elections.

The ongoing military conflict in neighboring Chechnya has occasionally spilled into Ingushetia, and the republic has been destabilized by corruption, a number of high-profile crimes ( including kidnapping and murder of civilians by government security forces ), anti-government protests, attacks on soldiers and officers, Russian military excesses and a deteriorating human rights situation.

Hatta's involvement with Suharto's government came at the beginning of 1970 when there were protests were made about corruption within it.

In 2006 mass protests against the Thai Rak Thai party's alleged corruption, prompted the military to stage a coup d ' état, in September.

The protests focused on land loss, high rents, the heavy handed role of the police, corruption among the bureaucracy and the local elite, poor infrastructure, and overwhelming poverty.