Word: protestable
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...they undermined the usefulness of the great medieval religious foundations and destroyed public confidence in them, so that when the royal despoiler set his hand on them in England after the Reformation, and the popular despoiler seized them in revolutionary France there was hardly a protest...
...careful to check the findings by the teeth of expert beef eaters. Just what use will be made of these tests the Department of Agriculture does not state. To the casual observer it would seem that all the packers and restaurateurs would rise in a body to protest against their ancient prerogative of serving tough steak. What is more likely, however, is that the proprietors of food shops will hasten to proclaim that "The Government Says our Steaks are Tender...
Passionate addresses were made; formal protest was sent to the Commissioner...
...vigorous protest against sensual details of pornographic pseudo- science loses force unless we ourselves issue succinct statistics and physiological summaries of what we find to be average and believe to be normal; and unless we offer, in place of the prolix mush of much sex literature, the few pages necessary for a standard of instruction covering sex education...
...down judgment that the Presbytery of New York had erred in licensing two young men who had expressed doubt as to whether Jesus had been physiologically born of a virgin. Dr. Coffin, "pale and trembling with excitement," had promptly risen in the name of the New York Presbytery, to protest against the decision. This action resulted in postponement of the issue until a special committee of 15 should have made its investigation of the spiritual condition of the Church...