form of protest
collocation in Englishmeaningsofformandprotest
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form
noun
uk/fɔːm/us/fɔːrm/
a paper or set of papers printed with spaces in which answers to questions can be written or information can be recorded in an ...
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protest
noun
uk/ˈprəʊ.test/us/ˈproʊ.test/
a strong complaint expressing disagreement, disapproval, ...
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(Definition offormandprotestfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The centralformofprotestis no longer political but aesthetic - the capacity to apprehend differently, to create a different cognitive map.
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As aformofprotestthe students organised a sit-down on the roadway, forming a human barrier blocking the entry road to the terminal.
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However, what did happen involved conscious choices about the appropriateformofprotestorganizations, not just the impersonal movement of economic, political, and social forces.
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While oneformofprotestagainst mass unemployment was mass demonstrations, another was the vote.
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The roadblock as a centralformofprotestperfectly fits the characteristics of contentious collective action described so far.
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Societies where large parts of the population are poor and marginalised are thus not necessarily more prone to political instability in theformofprotestactions (violent or nonviolent).
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I observe that that kind of payment never raises anyformofprotest.
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Often the most intelligent youngsters who are rebelling against society take drugs as aformofprotest.
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But to take to a vote an amendment with which they broadly agree as aformofprotestis rather silly.
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It was an unjust tax and in some cases the non-payers felt that non-payment was a justifiableformofprotest.
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I am not really given to thisformofprotest.
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The very publication of the source is aformofprotest.
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That would not be a very effectiveformofprotest.
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I am offering him an effectiveformofprotestas against protests which are dropped into the waste paper basket.
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I will initiate aformofprotestor complaint against you.
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I would defend the right of anyone to close his business if he wanted to do so as aformofprotest.
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I do not suggest that the father was, in the circumstances, able to make any otherformofprotest.
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The difference was that in those days there was no alternative to thatformofprotest.
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Resignation is the most potentformofprotestthat they can make.
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