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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.

The trouble was that he had virtually had to protest.

In the end Hough's acidulous protest, which Parker called the `` now somewhat famous note on this ' Selden ' case '', did not go unheeded.

* 1894 – Coxey's Army reaches Washington, D. C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.

She was pious, too, once kneeling through the night from Holy Thursday to Good Friday, despite the protest of the nuns that this was too much for a young girl.

In 1931 a number of Liberal MPs split from the original Liberal Party in protest at the leadership's adherence to free trade.

* 2006 – 243 people are injured in pro-democracy protest in Nepal after Nepali security forces open fire on protesters against King Gyanendra.

Of course, in this small way of forcing the people to watch as tiny and innocent and dependent creatures die because we're afraid to feed them and afraid to protest and say, `` How come??

There remains, of course, the question of what the West can do beyond diplomatic protest to prevent the illegal efforts from becoming accomplished facts.

This protest was not successful, however, and the citizenry lost many of its political and economic privileges.

Good wages, patronage and subscription of various kinds stopped open protest from Negroes.

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.

That this and the closing of the East Berlin-West Berlin border have not been accepted by the Western governments appears in notes which Britain, France, and the United States sent to Moscow after the latter's gratuitous protest over a visit of Chancellor Adenauer and other West German officials to West Berlin.

In 1919, the May Fourth Movement began as a response to the terms imposed on China by the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I, but quickly became a protest movement about the domestic situation in China.

* 1894 – Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington D. C.

On 20 November 1922, the peace conference was opened and after strenuous debate was interrupted by Turkish protest on 4 February 1923.

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.

The incident has been commemorated by Irish band, U2, in their 1983 protest song " Sunday Bloody Sunday ".

Alongside his long-established caricatures of right-wing, big business types such as General Bullmoose and J. Roaringham Fatback, Capp began spoofing counterculture icons such as Joan Baez ( in the character of Joanie Phoanie, a wealthy folksinger who offers an impoverished orphanage ten thousand dollars ' worth of " protest songs ").

U. S. " New Left " is associated with the Hippie movement, college campus mass protest movements and a broadening of focus from protesting class-based oppression to include issues such as gender, race, and sexual orientation.

Falun Gong practitioners protest outside the Zhongnanhai compound.

It is also used as a pro-democracy emblem in countries such as Belarus, where it has been used on protest marches alongside the banned former national flag and flags of opposition movements.

In the same play the character Hermia is told by the Duke Theseus that she must either wed the character Demetrius " Or on Diana's alter to protest for aye austerity and single life ".

A new political party, the People's Party, had formed to try to block the change but was unsuccessful as was the People Against Switching Sides protest group which launched a last minute legal challenge against the decision.

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.