Sentences with phrase «before widespread protests»

He also fired two of the exhibition's four curators before widespread protests eventually pushed him to resign from his position.

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Though for more than a year, some players have been kneeling during the anthem before games as a way to raise awareness about racial injustice, yesterday marked widespread protests in the form of players kneeling, linking arms and holding fists in the air.

Ovidiu Andronesi, an assistant professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, says he and many other members of one body, the National Research Council (NRC), learned they had been dismissed in an email received just before midnight on 31 January — almost at the same time as the government passed an emergency decree that decriminalized some corruption offences, sparking the widespread protests.