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- noun Plural form of
protest . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
protest .
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Examples
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Associated Press French President Nicolas Sarkozy The scope of the protests is all the more remarkable given the smallness of the reform: Besides raising the minimum retirement age to 62 from 60, the government wants to raise the age of eligibility for a full state pension to 67 from 65.
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The FT reports that the cost of the protests is approaching a billion dollars.
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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Dave Lindorff is right, I was part of the protest in the 70s and what we call protests today is nothing more than walking around where the cops tell us we can.
Stop Complaining about Right-Wing Protests! The Left Should be (Re)Learning How It��s Done 2009
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Dave Lindorff is right, I was part of the protest in the 70s and what we call protests today is nothing more than walking around where the cops tell us we can.
Stop Complaining about Right-Wing Protests! The Left Should be (Re)Learning How It��s Done 2009
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(And what has gone for the most part unremarked during the protests is the sweatshop labor that no doubt produces the casual clothing in factories and free trade zones in Asia and Central America.)
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According to the payvand. com website, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) had earlier released a statement, in which it called the protests "conspiracy and disturbance" and said its organizers "must sooner or later pay the price of insulting the holy beliefs of the Iranian nation."
RIA Novosti 2010
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I had to look on Fox News of all places to learn that one of the organizers of these so called conservative "protests" is none other than Rick Scott, a former CEO of a large for-profit hospital group whose company had to pay the government at 1.7 billion dollar fine for fraud.
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Staging protests is out of the Axelrod playbook, it's not a conservative move.
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The kind of people who engage in protests are part of that culture.
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Another problem with public protests is that fact that they are generally annoying.
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