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protest (Janus word)
To object and to affirm (also, "protestations").
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protest (verb), protests; protested; protesting
1. To express strong disapproval of or disagreement with something, or to refuse to obey or to accept something often by making a formal statement or taking action in public.
2. The act of protesting; an organized public manifestation of dissent.
3. To make a formal and a solemn declaration of objection.
4. The actions of making strong public expressions of disagreements and disapprovals: The crowd shouted their protests at the umpire's decision to penalize the football player.
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anti-austerity protest (s) (noun), anti-austerity protests (pl)
Massive street protests by those who are affected by economic losses: "There are anti-austerity protests by many segments of the populations; both students and older workers, that include education funding, infrastructure funding, manufacturing, aviation, social welfare, public workers, etc."

"Spain is engulfed by a nationwide anti-austerity strike."

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Protest transforms long quiescent Syrian city
transforms:
quiescent:
dissent:
defiance:
knitted into the city's fabric:
ferocious:
repression:
resilient opposition:
foreseeable future:

"Dissent and defiance in Homa, its residents say, have become knitted into the city's fabric, signaling to the government that however ferocious the repression, it will face a resilient opposition for the foreseeable future."

—International Herald Tribune, August 18, 2011; pages 1-5.
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