Word Finder - protest

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A formal objection, especially one by a group.

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They lodged a protest with the authorities.

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A collective gesture of disapproval; a demonstration.

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We held a protest in front of City Hall.

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The noting by a notary public of an unpaid or unaccepted bill.

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A written declaration, usually by the master of a ship, stating the circumstances attending loss or damage of ship or cargo, etc.

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To make a strong objection.

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How dare you, I protest!

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To affirm (something).

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I do protest and declare …

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To object to.

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They protested the demolition of the school.

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To call as a witness in affirming or denying, or to prove an affirmation; to appeal to.

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To make a solemn written declaration, in due form, on behalf of the holder, against all parties liable for any loss or damage to be sustained by non-acceptance or non-payment of (a bill or note). This should be made by a notary public, whose seal it is the usual practice to affix.

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To publish; to make known.

She began to protest but he stopped her.

He began to protest but she waved him aside.

When Lori opened her mouth to protest, he continued.

You view it as your duty to protest when people who do not hold to those values gain power.

She collected a handful of the material in modest protest.

Howie gave a token protest but agreed.

Her latest protest was lost on the warriors, who dragged her aboard yet another ship.

Before she had time to protest, he scooped her into his arms and deposited her in the buggy.

The justice of Gerson's protest was borne out by events.

His lips silenced her protest and she involuntarily responded.

The stove popped an angry protest about the growing flames and she flinched.

Dean began to protest but she crossed to her bedroom and slammed the door.

On the 24th of July 1663 he alone signed a protest against the bill " for the encouragement of trade," on the plea that owing to the free export of coin and bullion allowed by the act, and to the importation of foreign commodities being greater than the export of home goods, " it must necessarily follow.

The doctrine was his protest against a separation of the human and the divine in Christ, and was intimately connected with his mystical view of the work of Christ.

The preface to his Ever Green is a protest against "imported trimming" and "foreign embroidery in our writings," and a plea for a return to simple Scottish tradition.

With the door closed, she ran to the window to gaze in horror as the trees tossed their limbs in protest of the wind.

The bill was thrown out, and Shaftesbury signed the protest against its rejection.

The story became public property, and protest was aroused in nearly every European country.

Dean started to protest but his wife began carrying the packed ornaments from the room and asked in her sweetest tone if he could remove the now-dried Christmas tree and finish a short list of Bird Song chores she'd drawn up earlier.

Certainly the asceticism and ritualism might so be interpreted, for there was among the Jews of the Dispersion an increasing tendency to asceticism, by way of protest against the excesses of the Gentiles.

The storm door squealed a protest as he left the house, and the porch moaned with each step he took away from her.

Bordeaux stepped forward, and before she had time to protest, he swept her up and deposited her on the back of the bay.

He began walking down the road before Fitzgerald could protest further.

She folded her arms in protest.

The PMF—Poor Man's Front—had started as a protest during the war against the elite that ultimately won and divided the American society between those who lived comfortably—and everyone else.

Before she could protest, Fred was off with a wave good night.

Jovinian thus indicates a natural and vigorous reaction against the exaggerated asceticism of the 4th century, a protest shared by Helvidius and Vigilantius.

It is true that there was no rivalry between the new organization and the old, as in Asia and Phrygia, for the Western Montanists recognized in its main features the Catholic organization as it had been developed in the contest with Gnosticism; but the demand that the "organs of the Spirit" should direct the whole discipline of the congregation contained implicitly a protest against the actual constitution of the Church.

She started to protest attorney-client privilege but he shook his head.

His name and exploits still live in the popular legends, and the insurrection is often referred to in revolutionary pamphlets as a laudable popular protest against tyrannical autocracy.

The protest was unheeded, the British government having realized the international complications that might ensue had the Transvaal a port of its own.

In 1797 Fersen was sent to the congress of Rastatt as the Swedish delegate, but in consequence of a protest from the French government, was not permitted to take part in it.

A further persecution of Christians in Uea, during 1875, called forth a protest from the British government.

In 1631 the spahis of Asia Minor rose in revolt, in protest against the deposition of the grand vizier Khosrev; their representatives crowded to Constantinople, stoned the new grand vizier, Hafiz, in the court of the palace, and pursued the sultan himself into the inner apartments, clamouring for seventeen heads of his advisers and favourites, on penalty of his own deposition.

The enforcement of the first Book of Common Prayer had also been part of his official duties; and the fact that Bonner made no such protest against the burning of heretics as he had done in the former case shows that he found it the more congenial duty.

In such an atmosphere, deism readily uttered its protest against mysterious revelation.

The growing self-confidence of the Austrian Sla y s was shown by the bluntness of their refusal to cooperate with the new Premier, Doctor von Seidler, whose offer of portfolios to their leaders drew from Count Tisza a strong protest in the Hungarian Parliament.

This act called forth a protest from the 15th Lord Derby (now secretary of state for the colonies), stating that he could not recognize the right of Boer freebooters to set up governments of their own on the Transvaal borders.

This led to a protest, and eventually a visit to Pretoria, from Sir Henry Loch the high commissioner.

Kruger telegraphed that " this annexation cannot be regarded by this government otherwise than as directed against this republic. They must therefore regard it as an unfriendly act, against which they hereby protest."

This led to a strong protest from the judges of the high court, and eventually led to the dismissal of the chief justice, who had held that office for over twenty years, and during the whole of that time had been a loyal and patriotic friend to his country.

By the wish of ZEthelweard he also began a paraphrase 3 of parts of the Old Testament, but under protest, for the stories related in it were not, he thought, suitable for simple minds.

In 1741 he signed the protest for Walpole's dismissal and went abroad on account of his health.

I I) is difficult to explain, though Maimonides perhaps correctly regarded the law as a protest against heathenism (on the magical use of representatives of the animal and vegetable kingdom, in conjunction with a metal ring, see I.

This transition did not, however, take place without protest.

At the time of the banishment of Pope Liberius (355), the deacon Damasus, like all the Roman clergy, made energetic protest.

It was he who in 1853 dictated the vigorous memorandum of protest against the confiscation by Austria of the property of Lombard exiles who had been naturalized in Piedmont.

The cardinal line of the poem, "Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum," is elicited from him as his protest against the sacrifice of Iphigenia by her father.

He went so far as to threaten to resign his commission if the president disregarded his protest.

Grant accepted the appointment under protest, and held it until the following January, when the Senate refused to confirm the president's action, and Secretary Stanton resumed his office.