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  • At last, when it seemed she could endure no more, and while she was wetting her dry lips to cry out in protest,

    CHAPTER III 2010

  • “Not that fifty thousand francs thrown into the Charente would ruin us,” said Cointet, in reply to mute protest,

    Eve and David 2007

  • “Not that fifty thousand francs thrown into the Charente would ruin us,” said Cointet, in reply to mute protest,

    Eve and David 2007

  • Magdalen, without taking the smallest notice of the protest,

    No Name 2003

  • On whether Buthelezi planned to withdraw the bill in protest,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • The American Embassy was invited to support the Durban protest,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Meanwhile, transport workers said they would not use road blockades on national roads and highways as part of their protest,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • The DP recognised the democratic right of people to protest,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1992

  • Two prominent scholar monks from Van Hanh University, Venerables Thich Tue Sy and Thich Tri Sieu, were arrested in 1984 with other monks and nuns and in 1988 were sentenced to death for alleged antigovernment activities, but their death sentences were commuted to twenty years imprisonment after international protest,

    Return to Vietnam: An Exchange Bergerud, Eric M. 1992

  • QUOTATION: To sin by silence, when we should protest,

    Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) 1989

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