Both desisted from doing so while the protest was in effect.

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She added that the Liverpool protest would be "highlighting the effect of the cuts on women in particular" and that all the groups involved were "protesting against the Chancellor's Autumn Statement".

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In light of the fact that this release has occurred despite the protest of the administration, what effect do you think this will have on agreements of this nature between the U.S., the UK, and other nations in the future?

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Stewart likes to protest that such skewering is purely for comic effect.

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Just because the analogy to sit-ins breaks down, that does not mean that DDoS cannot be a form of political protest, nor that it cannot have an effect.

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The wall of a jail cell, smeared with excrement as an act of protest, was filmed with such compositional care that it became, in effect, a work of abstract art, allowing us to forget what it actually was: human waste, applied with human rage, and surely unbearable to the human nose.

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The Bush administration has reason to hope though that as a protest movement speeded American withdrawal from Vietnam, pressure from Iranians may have a similar effect on Iran's proxy war in Iraq.

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