popular protest
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpopularandprotest
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popular
adjective
uk/ˈpɒp.jə.lər/us/ˈpɑː.pjə.lɚ/
liked, enjoyed, or supported by ...
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protest
noun
uk/ˈprəʊ.test/us/ˈproʊ.test/
a strong complaint expressing disagreement, disapproval, ...
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(Definition ofpopularandprotestfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Popularprotestforced major changes in the system within two years.
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Ultimately,popularprotesthad a legitimacy that authors did not extend to other kinds of social violence.
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Together with the censure of individual officials, it was the other outstanding feature ofpopularprotestat the beginning of the 16th century.
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In other words,popularprotestpetitioned as much as it denounced, supplicated as much as it threatened.
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Thus,popularprotesthad two distinct aims that coexisted within nearly every crowd.
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Throughout the local literature,popularprotestoften appears in quite a different light from factional feuds, most notably in the choice of terminology.
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Popularprotestagainst retrenchment that leads to the withdrawal of reform proposals is therefore only the tip of the iceberg.
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The author shows how traditions ofpopularprotestwere associated with a set of political ideas regarding people's rights.
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Thus, the monarchy maintains social insulation againstpopularprotest.
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To illuminate these seemingly glacial movements, we need to studypopularprotestover the long term, thereby bringing together several centuries of accumulated perceptions.
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The coincidence of both urban fires andpopularprotestwith the drier summer months probably reinforced a correlation, too, between social unrest and suspicion of arson.
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In that country, too, the government had to step down in the face ofpopularprotest.
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Most of the mergers were carried out, albeit to significantpopularprotest.
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In the final years of his career and life he wrote and sangpopularprotestsongs which expressed his humorous view of the world.
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Word of this spread throughout the country, and very soon apopularprotestagainst this inhumane treatment arose.
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