The decision was loudly protested by opposition lawmakers.
"All I did was touch the goddam brakes," the driver protested loudly.
She protested that she had never seen the accused man before.
Yet Greece recently protested that eight Turkish fighter jets had flown dangerously close to a Rhodes-bound Greek passenger aircraft.
"Mom, we thought you didn't like the Joneses," we protested. "They're mean to us. Besides, Crazy Jack Junior might shoot us."
He had thought the piano was merely a retirement pastime for his mother, and had protested mildly when she mentioned that her goal was to be good enough one day to play four-hand with him.
She protested about the expense.
Any black who protested could be lynched.
"Wine helps me sleep," Tyrion had protested. Wine drowns my dreams, he might have said.
Indians and farmers who resented cattle trampling their crops and spreading the dreaded Texas fever protested their passage.
Ms Lagarde was already a controversial choice for boss of the IMF; developing economies loudly protested at the appointment of yet another European.
Thousands of Chinese protested in major cities during the weekend, targeting stores of the French retailer Carrefour as well as the French Embassy and a French school in Beijing.
They only protested in a low voice.
Grandma protested, but he insulted her and pushed her aside.
Earlier this year hundreds of Shanghainese protested against a proposed extension to the city's maglev train, worried about health risks.
Having beamed next to Mr Obama in a summit photo, he then protested that the White House had overstated his intention to put all goods and services up for negotiation.
Thereupon, the monkeys protested angrily.
She had not protested, to anyone, and thus her guilt was unalloyed.
SEOUL, (AFP) - The South Korean government has protested Tokyo's suspension of imports of Samsung SDI's plasma display panel (PDP) screens in a dispute with Japanese rival Fujitsu.
He protested his innocence.
Hoffman protested that he had never been in the lane where the murder took place.
The white cat was definitely displeased - its owner did not want it anymore! It protested with a few meows, but Penny was quite determined. So it had to go with its new owner.
The Humane Soicety protested against wearing fur coats.
I protested greatly at first as I adore my privacy but it soon spoils you having someone run your bath, lay your clothes out, and take all your phone messages correctly.
It's based on the Boston Tea Party, which is what a group people were called when they protested British taxes when the US was a British colony.
A young man who had just read a book by Shah protested that it was all about drinking.
But, as the prosecutors who put Craxi on trial protested, it also means discrediting them and the judges who convicted him.
If she asks, I protested a little, but okay.
Not unreasonably, he protested strongly against it.
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