He ignored my protest and held out a hand to help me up from the bench.

They seem to have a lot of experience ignoring protests.

I ignored his mumbled protests and looked into the next room.

He ignored her protests in order to pursue some impressive line of his own.

"They ignore our protests and appear indifferent to a state of peace or war with us."

Mac ignored my indirect protest, if you could call it that.

She pulled herself off him reluctantly, ignoring his murmured protest.

"We have to go," he said, ignoring the boy's protest.

Ignoring protests, he carried her out from the healing place and into the chill of the spring air.

But directors can and sometimes do ignore such protests with impunity.