Sentences with word «protestations»

Despite protestations of age and infirmity, which would cause him to skip sessions through the summer, Franklin's talent for compromise would help the Convention over its roughest patches.

Body Shop was duly added to the boycott list, despite protestations from Anita Roddick, who said at the time:

Only yesterday, the Christian Council of Ghana capped months of protestations against the practice of homosexuality with a strongly worded message against the practice and courting Ghanaians not to vote for any politician who believes in the rights of homosexuals.

It would not be disturbing, of course, if there were not so many protestations about the religious intentions of the villagers.

Tavani and his team eventually won awards for the discovery, but Tavani dismissed it when it first appeared in 2007 — despite protestations from members of his team — because the observations seemed too weird.»

Despite protestations by Jeff Bezos to the contrary, shopping is a big deal when it comes to voice assistants.

A day earlier and 60 - plus years later, no such protestations emerged from under the hood of the new 2016 Rolls - Royce Dawn I piloted, only prodigious power and muted ferocity.

Protestations aside, it's sometimes hard to let go of a path when you've set it down on paper.

But let's face it, your kids» protestations notwithstanding, it's not always so convenient to build a campfire!

Despite the various protestations over the years that CCA is not a puppet of TCCC, it is still part of the Coca - Cola system and that means abiding by its rules.

So Alice endures an unending cycle of rape, starvation, and beatings, interspersed with protestations of love from Ray.

The list of abuses heaped upon landlords in Ontario is a long one, despite the many protestations by tenant advocacy groups.

We always feel a bit uncertain — despite our loud protestations to the contrary — that we belong.

The goodbye scenes should be kept as brief as possible, and the attachment figure should be coached to react to protestations matter - of - factly.

Despite frequent protestations, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima — quirky, mysterious, often convoluted and contradictory but always impossible to categorize — never left the franchise behind.

It does not say, «and hate your enemy,» though there are such protestations as «I hate the company of evildoers» (Ps 26:5) in the Psalms.

Continued protestations fall flat when a partner insists that they're right and that you're in denial.

The book touches on the denial that often accompanies poor financial behavior, equating it to the commonly heard protestation of an out - of - shape individual that he or she is «not that out of shape.»

If, prior to the existence of significant anthropogenic CO2, real world switches between warming and cooling are observed to have happened then protestations about the smallness of solar variability come to nought when the only relevant heat source is the sun.

There was little protestation from the midfielder as he made his way down the tunnel and left his side one man down for an hour.

Notwithstanding the SV community's phony protestations to the contrary, Benchmark's suit is a brilliant move — not a blunder — a strong opening gambit to pull off something that was increasingly looking like a distant and faint hope.

Despite his repeated protestations that he was not there to «sell» the proposals and that he himself came from a small business family, he got a pretty rough ride.

Despite the fervent protestations of brand loyalists, all of the latest smartphones are essentially the same: they're fast and fluid, take great pictures and all come with large, crisp screens.

It seems inevitable that the federal government will eventually have to as well, despite the frantic protestations to the contrary.

All of this is problematic for the Conservatives because of previous protestations like this and this and this and this and this.

Besides, despite verbal protestations by theologians, many Protestant worship services remain profoundly and dismally wordy, ill at ease with silence, dance, mime and other, deeper words.

Whenever an [Hispanic] American of great consciousness raises his voice in sincere protestation, religious anxiety arises.

When the «sanctlty» of the «confessional» can be used to «deny» knowledge of what is actually known — then all such protestations become suspect.

Jewish delegates sent from Alexandria and elsewhere had been able to combine protestations of loyalty with appeals for the emperor's favour; the assassin's dagger was more effective.

After the achievement of independence when the Episcopal Church of its own volition got an Episcopate, and in spite of the pompous pretensions and sober protestations of such High - churchmen as Connecticut's Samuel Seabury, the new American church in order to attain organization on a national scale had to make the lay voice in its councils an essential part of its being.

For all his earnest protestations of innocence, Thompson was the lone suspect in the slayings almost from the start.

In spite of the Wengwrites protestations, 4th is not Champions League it is the playoffs (where you actually have 2 extra games receipts....

Everton have taken a deserved lead against Lille in their Europa League tie at Goodison Park, with long - serving midfielder Leon Osman striking home a fine effort at the far post — but did Lille have a point with their furious protestations over a potential handball by Osman?

Despite the ongoing protestations from Arsene Wenger, the Arsenal transfer rumours linking the club with Karim Benzema just will not go away and there is a strong feeling in the football media that our manager is not being entirely honest about his hopes of signing the France international star.

Sciatic back aches are an alternate regular protestation.

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The hyperbole - filled response may be a backhanded tribute to Boris Johnson, whose own protestations that he does not covet No 10 have been consistently over-the-top.

He believes it is for this reason they have resorted to piling undue pressure on the government to get them jobs or the embark on violent protestations.

Cameron and Clegg are making an unelected dash to dismantle the welfare state - on that unspoken wish they are one, always have been despite their one - nation protestations.

But by cutting a middle - of - the - night deal for the sole purpose of taking political heat off legislative Democrats, Paterson sent an entirely different message: No crisis is so severe that it's not amenable to midnight fixes — so no one should take protestations to the contrary seriously.

Similar protestations, as Uncut has noted, have blunted moves to the centre on welfare.

«If you dig beneath the bland protestations of love, there is a genuine philosophical difference on the NHS between the political parties.

Why hasn't the REPUBLICAN Governor embraced the ignorant protestations of you out - of - state dumb haole birthers.