Word Finder - protested

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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 hadn't protested to his touch during training.

She protested until the cops came and took them both to a police station.

She almost protested, but remembered this morning's reticence.

Carmen protested, but he insisted that he wanted to help.

Dean tried to take the card but the manager protested, saying it was part of his records.

Katie almost protested his abrupt dismissal then rolled so her back was to the fire.  Something was really off about Gabe.  She fingered the gems on the new necklace.

The nobles protested, and Egmont was deputed to go to Madrid and try to obtain from the king a mitigation of the edicts and redress of grievances.

Our sovereign alone has protested against the seizure of the Duke of Oldenburg's territory, and even...

She had protested the morality of AI until she lost her uterus, finally giving in to surrogacy a few years ago.

New York protested against the Bennington grant in 1749, but the question did not become serious until the chief obstacle to settlement was removed by the conquest of Canada in 1760-61.

But Mystics it would be false to say that these men protested against the doctrines of the Church in the way the Reformers felt themselves called upon to do.

He had, moreover, received assurances from the emperor that he would further Wolsey's candidature for the papacy; and although he protested to Henry VIII.

She had protested, but he said something could happen to him and he would want her to have it.

He protested against the violent anti-Semitism of the time, and, in spite of the moderate tone of his publications, drew upon himself unqualified censure.

It is needless to say that he protested against the ecclesiastical legislation of 1867 and 1873.

Cynthia protested, citing the accumulating chores and full house, but reluctantly agreed.

Among other works written during Turgot's intendancy were the Memoire sur les mines et carrieres, and the Memoire sur la marque des fers, in which he protested against state regulation and interference and advocated free competition.

Carnot alone in the tribunate protested against the measure.

The assembly protested, but was appeased by the empty formula, "This is your doge an it please you."

Again the king protested, but in vain.

The only thing Josh didn't know was that Alex had stopped when she protested.

Under the Restoration he became a peer of France, but protested against the reactionary spirit of the government, and remained in opposition.

Though expected to take part in the negotiations which led in 1648 to the peace of Westphalia, he refused to deliberate with heretics, and protested against the treaties when completed.

The shoulder protested when she put an arm around Destiny, but right now Destiny was more important.

Other Hungarian exiles protested against the claim he appeared to make that he was the one national hero of the revolution.

He is not known to have protested against any of the changes effected by his masters; he professed to be no theologian, and was wont, when asked theological questions, to refer his interrogators to the divines.

On the occasion of the Metrical Congress, which met in Paris in 1872, he, however, successfully protested against the recognition of the Vatican delegate, Father Secchi, as a representative of a state, and obtained from Count de Rmusat, French foreign minister, a formal declaration that the presence of Father Secchi on that occasion could not constitute a diplomatic precedent.

He still protested his loyalty to Philip, but the latter advanced against him and was slain near Verona.

The Viscount Stafford was one of the "five Popish lords" committed to the Tower in 1678 as a result of the slanders of Titus Oates and he died by the axe in 1680 upon testimony which, as the diarist Evelyn protested, "should not be taken against the life of a dog."

England and France protested energetically and the treaty remained a dead letter, but the question came up again in 1840, after Mahmud's renewed attempt to crush Mehemet Ali had ended in the utter defeat of the Turks by Ibrahim at Nezib (June 24, 1839).

In the zemstvo congress of November the " Cadets " protested against the " grant " of a constitution already elaborated, and demanded the convocation of a Constituent Assembly.

In 1814 he was chosen a member of the chamber of representatives, and in 1815 he urged the claim of Napoleon's son to the French throne and protested against the restoration of the Bourbons.

Doubtless such a reform met with strong resistance from the disestablished and vested interests, but it was firmly supported by royal influence and by the Jerusalem priesthood as well as by the true prophets of Yahweh who had protested against the idolatrous usages and corruptions of the high places.

On the 6th of December he protested with three other peers against the measure sent up from the Commons enforcing the disarming of all convicted recusants and taking bail from them to keep the peace; he was the only peer to dissent from the motion declaring the existence of an Irish plot; and though believing in the guilt and voting for the death of Lord Stafford, he interceded, according to his own account, 3 with the king for him as well as for Langhorne and Plunket.

In March 1679 he protested against the second reading of the bill for disabling Danby.

They protested that they would rather die than dare to transgress the wisdom of the laws; and Pilate yielded.

They protested against the multiplication of slaves from motives of vanity in the houses of the great, against the gladiatorial combats (ultimately abolished by the noble self-devotion of a monk) and against the consignment of slaves to the theatrical profession, which was often a school of corruption.

Representatives of the Zealots would probably have protested against his pro-Roman prejudices.

Against this secularized church a body of witnesses silently protested; they were always persecuted but always survived, till in the 13th century a desperate attempt was made by Innocent III.

He declined to intervene in the affairs of Italy by confining the great liberator to Sicily; he protested against the presence of the French fleet at Gaeta; and when other foreign nations denounced the conduct of Piedmont, he defended it by quoting Vattel and citing the example of William III.

Lord Granville, who had succeeded Lord Clarendon at the foreign office, protested against this proceeding.

What they protested against was the theory of the opus operatum et meritorium as applied to fasting.

The third narrative is P 2, which relates how Korah at the head of 250 Levites protested against the priestly privileges of Aaron, claiming that all the Levites had as much right to sacrifice and offer incense to Yahweh as Aaron and his sons had.

Balaam protested that, though he were to receive a houseful of silver and gold, he could not go beyond the word of Yahweh, his God.

The Aborigines Society protested to the colonial office, and the imperial government refused to sanction the proposal.

Louis Philippe's government was far from satisfying his desires for reform, and he persistently urged the "broadening of the bases of the monarchy," while he protested his loyalty to the dynasty.

Demosthenes protested against spending strength, needed for greater objects, on the local quarrels of a despot.

The Lacedaemonians refused to pay the fine above mentioned; the Athenians protested against the treatment of Amphissa, and were slow in accepting the decisions given under the influence of Macedon.

Diceto was selected, in 1166, as the envoy of the English bishops when they protested against the excommunications launched by Becket.

The bishops and clergy who were present at the coronation protested against this surrender, and a tumult arising, the ceremony had to be abandoned.