protest against

基本解释

They lodged a formal protest against their government.
他们向政府提出正式抗议。
The Dutch and Swedes have given a lead, cancelling their aid to Rwanda in protest against its government’s backing of the murderous general.
荷兰和瑞典已经带了头，他们主张反对卢旺达政府对杀人将军的支持，并取消了对卢旺达的援助。
Some 132 of the party’s deputies declined to take their oath in protest against a court decision to keep two of their elected colleagues in prison.
大约132名党代表拒绝宣誓以抗议反对法院的一项决定。这项决定就是使他们选举出来的两位同事继续呆在监狱里。

The riot began as a political protest against the draft.
And reservations, formal protest against this article are the most numerous from countries, from every region of the world.
而对这项条款的保留意见和正式抗议,是最多的,并且来自世界各地。
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Students and most of their professors are on the barricades, that is to say in protest not only against the war in Vietnam but the outpouring of various forms of authoritative resistance to protest that characterized the sixties.
学生和大多数教授在抗议，不仅仅是反抗越南战争,更是一种对典型的六十年代各种形式的,作者权威的反抗。
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More recently his ministry unilaterally banned dealings with Denmark to protest against the Danish cartoons.
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