Word: protestable
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...fired by any authorized officer searching for the ten prisoners. . . We wasted several hours ... in determining there was no truth to substantiate the broadcast and in making an inquiry into the hoax. ... I desire the Federal Radio Commission to make a complete investigation. . . ." A day later he withdrew his protest, "pending further investigation...
When Reichsbischof Müller finally sat down ten bishops rose and laid before the Synod a protest signed by 2,000 German pastors. "It is not permissible," they declared "that the Church of Christ betray brotherly love and by the rule of force become a kingdom of this world. . . . Church ministration is in the greatest danger. Pastors and church officials are persecuted. . . . We protest . . . especially to the so-called 'Aryan paragraph...
Cowed, the Synod ignored the 2,000 pastors' protest...
...period under Josiah Quincy although it was officially recommended at an overseers' meeting in 1643. At a meeting of the Harvard Club in New York in 1878 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1816, presented a sonnet ridiculing the omission of "truth" on the Seal, in so doing unintentionally causing a general protest which resulted in the cutting...
...should like to voice my protest against the hundred-odd strokes tolled off by the chapel bell at seven o'clock each morning. I know all other Freshmen residing in nearby dormitories will join in asking that this be stopped...