"protest" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He refused several prizes from the Spanish government, in protest at the treatment of the Catalan language and culture in Spain.
- When Bonhoeffer was offered a parish post in eastern Berlin, he refused it in protest of the nationalist policy.
- He refused his vice-presidential and senatorial pensions in protest over the two coups that cut each of those terms short.
- The city cited Gabriel for violating a city ordinance prohibiting signs from public rights of way, and he was jailed for refusing in protest to pay the fine.
- By the anecdotal evidence, refused the position in protest against the policies of the (supposedly reactionary) Minister Kasso.
- In 1998 he refused an honorary doctorate from Oxford University, in protest at its acceptance of funding for a chair from press baron Rupert Murdoch.
- On 12 February, seven stokers refused duty in protest over the poor quality of food being provided to the sailors aboard.
- Order of Friendship of Peoples (offered in 1993, but refused in protest against the war in Chechnya)
- (Wanger refused the award in protest of the film's absence in the Best Picture category.)
- In 1968, she signed the "War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War.
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