How To Use Protestation In A Sentence

Every protestation that she should go on this outing was clearly a plea for her to stay and resist the invitation.
Despite his occasional protestations of friendship, he disliked England and thought her a worthless ally.
Instead of dissuading him from further crime, the fact of having been labelled a criminal may be sufficient to make him what, if we believe his protestations of innocence, he was not.
To the protestations of my colleagues in the Labour Party, I say that I have been harping on about this issue for so long, and it has taken as long as this to get it to the House.
Yet this very tragedy, in spite of its author's protestations, is nothing more than a rifacimento of Racine's drama, and rather infelicitous at that, though it must be admitted that Mendes' style is of classic purity, and some of his scenes are in a measure characterized by vivacity of action. The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885)

Les autorités iraniennes ont interdit hier aux journalistes des médias étrangers de quitter leurs bureaux pour couvrir les manifestations de protestation dans les rues de Téhéran. From the dept of 'oh snap'
Many women are virtual slaves to their pimps, snared by false protestations of love, and then held in his thrall by a combination of violence and spurious affection.
his praise released from her loud protestations of her unworthiness
More protestations of innocence followed and shortly afterwards, creepiness slunk in.
Accompanying the petition is a series of portraits of Icelanders holding up their own protestations of innocence. Icelanders protest terrorist label
The two remain in touch, but friends say the close rapport they once enjoyed has been destroyed, despite their public protestations to the contrary.
Things are already so rancorous between the Tories and the Lib Dems -- despite public protestations that talks are going "swimmingly" -- that it would be little surprise if we had a second general election within months. The Forever Prime Minister
An inequality of years so considerable, had led him to expect that the fortune he had thus acquired, would speedily be released from the burthen with which it was at present incumbered; but his expectations proved as vain as they were mercenary, and his lady was not more the dupe of his protestations than he was himself of his own purposes. Cecilia
Whatever the reason, his public persona seems guarded and calculating and his repeated protestations of humility usually fall flat.
This is in spite of questions and protestations by environmentalists and business.
The effort flopped amid claims that he was lukewarm, despite his public protestations of support.
Nonetheless, for all the protestations of the convinced minority, only a certain kind of mind can make the leap of faith to truly, madly, deeply believe in UFOs.
They continue to claim, despite UEFA's protestations to the contrary, that their pitch will soon be unsuitable for European competition.
All his protestations of innocence collapse in the face of the bare honest facts.
Towards the end of his career he became increasingly convinced that many of the protestations of innocence made at the gallows were genuine.
Yes, there have been protestations of innocence from our own Foreign Secretary, and an outright denial from the President.
His threats and protestations do nothing to sway her - her resolve is stronger than his machismo.
The prime minister is afraid that his protestations will be lost in the synthetic public outrage that is being loosed by the Eurosceptic media.
Meanwhile, President Monroe decided that the Creeks were right in their protestations that the Seminoles were a separate tribe.
The loud protestations from the government that it opposed the cancellation of the North's elections do little to help its case.
They contrasted strongly with the half-breeds, or mestizoes, who, repulsed like the former, vented their indignation in cries and protestations. The Pearl of Lima A Story of True Love
Violence remains a potential threat beneath the appearance of feminine softness and the protestations of peace and benevolence.
On luckless occasions my protestations that dancing might aggravate an old shrapnel wound have been overruled, and I have been dragged out onto the dance floor.
Despite his protestation to the contrary, he was extremely tired.
Duty and honor compel him to return to face his foe despite the vehement protestations of Amy, a Quaker.
In the South African context of political reconciliation, the verkrampte protestation by Jubilee 2000 is just a smoke screen devoid of meaning.
Mr. Arnold concedes that, despite some protestation, many Moros liked the American policies and beseeched the U.S. to delay plans for their self-rule. An Insurgency and Its Lessons
He capered and cavorted growing louder by the moment, so that it was a fair bit before the French player's quiet protestations could be heard.
If he succeeds, the 33-year - old will probably retire despite his protestations to the contrary.
Which is why his protestations about his unceremonious exit from Newcastle being ‘ancient history’ have a hollow ring.
And then repeated a most solemn protestation, “That he was no more the father of Jones than the Pope of Rome;” and imprecated the most bitter curses on his head, if he did not speak truth. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
She may have been the closest we have to an honest politician at the moment but that's by comparison with the rest of the mob and I'm not entirely convinced by her protestations.
Despite their protestation, they were glad to accept our help.
I am saddened to add my jeremiad to the list of protestations at your coverage.
Despite their protestation, they were glad to accept our help.
The prime minister is afraid that his protestations will be lost in the synthetic public outrage that is being loosed by the media.
For another, it is obvious that much of the protestation is just token outrage, going through the motions to validate the charter of certain organisations.
Despite his protestations of innocence, many in jail believed he was the ruthless killer of a defenceless teenager.
Instead, we must listen to protestations of innocence and some nonsense suggesting that his sample had been sabotaged, and they know who did it.
Ye-e-e-es … the vociferant voices of African leaders 'protestations. THiNkEr'S rOoM
Democracy and human rights are, despite their protestations to the contrary, in practice a long way down the agenda here.
The meeting ended with protestations of friendship and cooperation from everyone.
No reinterpretation of the evidence and no protestations of innocence can alter those facts.
I took my leave of the superior, who parted with me with many protestations of regard on his side, and tears of gratitude on mine, and early the next morning I was on board of the xebeque. The Privateersman
Despite his protestations, the authorities have wisely decided to cage the miscreant youth.
The only real misfire is the title track, in which Swift interrupts a wedding with a protestation of love for the groom ( "I am not the kind of girl who should be rudely barging in on a white veil occasion," she informs the gathering, somewhat awkwardly). Album review: Taylor Swift, "Speak Now"
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Public protestations aside, she says, ‘Clinicians know privately that results can be jiggered.’
However, after compliments, and more protestations from its owner, the Strad was brought into hotchpot, and Lætitia abdicated. Somehow Good
The accused is convincing in his protestations of innocence.
The stronger the pull of integration, the louder the protestations against it.
The final compiler and editor, to whom we are indebted for the collection in its present form, undoubtedly found the sweeping scepticism of the poet Agur and the pious protestations of his anonymous adversary, the thesis and the antithesis, inextricably interwoven in the section now known as the thirtieth chapter. The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur
The women still defended her, though their voices of protestation were taking a lower key. GWENDOLEN
Canellos is bumptiously content with the White Houses protestations of innocence in this matter. The Chimes at Midnight
Despite his protestations of innocence he was fast-tracked into court the following day and jailed for 11 years.
Despite their protestation, they were glad to accept our help.
The whispers of many men and the protestations of the portress were audible in the corridor. Les Miserables
They gave her pretty short shrift despite her well-practised protestations. The Priest
The Demon and the wight were arguing about something, so over the protestations of my comrades, I stole closer that I might hear.
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And, indeed, leaving a rabble of long prologues and protestations, which ordinarily these dolent contemplative lent-lovers make who never meddle with the flesh, one day he said unto her, Madam, it would be Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
The remaining essays, despite the editors' protestations that this volume is more thematically coherent than the typical Festschrift, are something of a grab bag.
This action makes a mockery of the Government's continuing protestations of concern.
`Not me, dear - "He raised his hands in a protestation of innocence. DEATH IN FASHION
They had literally thrown him from the train, despite his protestations, and his whole body had been jarred.
Many protestations of friendship, and expressions anticipative of the pleasure which must inevitably flow from so happy an acquaintance, were exchanged, and the visitors departed, with renewed assurances that at all times and seasons the mansion of the Wititterlys would be honoured by receiving them beneath its roof. Nicholas Nickleby
The effort flopped amid claims that he was lukewarm, despite his public protestations of support.
So it is always well to cast a slightly jaundiced eye over the high flown phrases of professions' protestations of their own virtue, as exhibited in their training manuals.
Her protestation of innocence had a hollow ring to it .
This is not, ye Covenants and Protestations that we have made! this is not to put down prelaty; this is but to chop an episcopacy; this is but to translate the Palace Metropolitan from one kind of dominion into another; this is but an old canonical sleight of commuting our penance. Areopagitica
Protestations that ‘we've only had four’ rang hollow as we remembered each Stein equals a couple of pints.
Her rather revealing history lesson was cut short at the sharp protestations of the door as it was pushed open.
Despite our protestations and grumblings, most Jakartans despair in silence without ever making their grievances heard.
Reply Obj. 1: Just as religion consists in a kind of protestation of faith, without, sometimes, faith being in one's heart, so too the vices opposed to religion include a certain protestation of unbelief without, sometimes, unbelief being in the mind. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
One suspects that, despite his protestation that we don't necessarily need a "lesson" from such a novel as The Kindly Ones, Bukiet would prefer that its unmediated access to the point of view of a morally compromised protagonist be placed in a more didactically clear context as a corrective to "wallowing. Furies
In spite of the protestations of advocates (i.e. probably the beneficiaries thereof) it will to some degree, from minor to dramatic, under-perform with respect to optimality. Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » The Only Health Care Cost Control Idea the Democrats Have Ever Had
Despite the protestations of the market illiterati of the Left, government rationing of health care services is right around the corner.
I ask her about the events of December 13, and her protestations of innocence ever since.
The protestations lead to arguments and the situation got a bit messy.
I am saddened to add my jeremiad to the list of protestations at your coverage.
Sanction did make no mention of it, and that the holy Pope to everyone gave liberty to fart at his own ease, if that the blankets had no streaks wherein the liars were to be crossed with a ruffian-like crew, and, the rainbow being newly sharpened at Milan to bring forth larks, gave his full consent that the good woman should tread down the heel of the hip-gut pangs, by virtue of a solemn protestation put in by the little testiculated or codsted fishes, which, to tell the truth, were at that time very necessary for understanding the syntax and construction of old boots. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
No reinterpretation of the evidence and no protestations of innocence can alter those facts.
Despite their protestations of revolutionary design, the Foleo looks just like another subnotebook. More Foleo thoughts : #comments
Every protestation that she should go on this outing was clearly a plea for her to stay and resist the invitation.
And the sacraments of the old Law were a kind of protestation of that faith, inasmuch as they signified Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
My protestations about the lack of evidence of benefit in such procedures were to no avail.
With the scene of the denial, for which we are thus prepared, the dramatic movement becomes exceedingly rapid, and the rendering of the events in the high-priest's hall -- Peter's bass recitative alternating its craven protestations with the clamorous agitato chorus of the servants -- is stirring in the extreme. The Unseen World, and Other Essays
We help Doug below deck despite his protestations.
They have, despite occasional protestations to the contrary, achieved remarkable successes politically, economically and socially over the last half century so that the siren song of premillennialism no longer has the same appeal it once did. Randall Balmer: Pavlovian Premillennialism
The loud protestations of those who are fuming at the school board makes you wonder who they think the victims of this whole thing are?
After a brief conversation, finding her sentiments unchanged, and hearing from her lips a protestation that, though it were to cost her her life, she would never swerve from the principles she had professed at their last meeting, he exclaimed desperately, By God, Florida, your scruples shall not deprive me of the fruit of my toils. The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre
Despite his protestation to the contrary, he was extremely tired.
Processes could be broken out, modularized, tinker-toy-rebuilt, outsourced, and re-assembled -- and despite Hammer's later protestations, the idea remained attractively impersonal to its fans. Charles H. Green: The Boston Consulting Group Caused the Recession
In its own way, this form of protestation is important for us. Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog:
So aren't the protestations of terminal scruffiness and aw-shucks fallibility just a little disingenuous?
Pitt who was then Prime Minister promised to introduce a bill of Catholic relief; but when it was drafted, it was found to contain an oath which all Catholics were to be called upon to take, based on the "protestation", but in stronger language, and containing doctrine to which no good Catholic could set his name; while the Catholics throughout were called by the absurd title of "Protesting Catholic Dissenters". The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
One is that which John conferred by baptizing, which is called "a baptism of penance," etc., by reason of its inducing men to do penance, and of its being a kind of protestation by which men avowed their purpose of doing penance. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
They instead relied on their protestations of innocence in interviews.
The police weren't moved by his protestations of innocence, however.
Page 359, Volume 2 pietistically, or existentially — and no longer (whatever his protestations) defines God on the basis exclusively either of speculation or of external ecclesiastical or scriptural authority, it is not hard to see why, even in the very different atmosphere of the twentieth cen - tury, Schleiermacher continues to be called “the father of modern theology,” at least in Western culture. IDEA OF GOD SINCE 1800
Calandrino perceiving, that all his protestations could winne no credit with them, who had now the Law remaining in their owne hands, and purposed to deale with him as they pleased: apparantly saw, that sighing and sorrow did nothing availe him. The Decameron
Violence remains a potential threat beneath the appearance of feminine softness and the protestations of peace and benevolence.
The next day it voted to remonstrate yet again against the king's reply to the protestations of the thirteenth.
Despite its protestations to the contrary, the Second Circuit must have doubted whether we are really at war.
And the loud protestations of the party leaders to the contrary just do not hold water.
Englemann's work has quite clearly and unequivocally brought out the nature of Wittgenstein's well-known protestations against such a bowdlerization of his thoughts as that of Russell in his introductory essay to the Tractatus. Wittgenstein's Strategy
More tears and protestations of innocence changed nothing.
In light of the ridiculous controversy this has engendered, and in protestation against the Massachusetts Catholic school that recently banned the Harry Potter books, I decided it was time to make a statement. Archive 2007-10-01
Page 46 explanations and protestations followed; then curses and hissing epithets were showered down freely upon the head of the presumptuous wretch -- the vice-gerent of "Old Nick" -- who was the cause of all the trouble. Recollections of the Inhabitants, Localities, Superstitions, and KuKlux Outrages of the Carolinas. By a "Carpet-Bagger" Who Was Born and Lived There
For all the protestations, she appears to remain the Mistress of Masquerade.
A territorial division, of course, is exactly what the guerrillas want, despite all protestations to the contrary.
One of the most disturbing features of the case was how patients' protestations of abuse were ignored.
I do not pretend tha t my protestations should acquit me.
Any soil with even a tentative protestation to fertility will support escallonia. Article Source
Despite his protestation to the contrary, he was extremely tired.
In token of this He wished even to be circumcised; for the circumcision is a kind of protestation of a man's purpose of keeping the Law, according to Gal. Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition
He recalled the forlorn little smile with which she had accepted von Elmur's lover-like protestations at Madame de Sagan's doorway. A Modern Mercenary
Cherry was a green - eyed monster, but tried to hide it under protestation of admiration.
When the last flask was emptied, they took their leave with deep protestations — to be forgotten on the morrow, if, indeed, those who made them should not think it necessary for their safety to make a more solemn retractation. The Bride of Lammermoor
the many protestations did not stay the execution
What his protestation is -- that the estate he had he both got and used honestly, so that his land could not cry out against him nor the furrows thereof complain (v. 38), as they do against those who get the possession of them by fraud and extortion, Hab. ii. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
The second was the invariable denial that followed - the outright refutation of indisputable evidence, or the protestations of innocence or ignorance, or the imputation that supplements had been spiked or contaminated.
It is an odd thing that people will facilely assent to Don Adriano's protestation against a certain travestying of Hector, -- "Sweet chucks, beat not the bones of the dead, for when he breathed he was a man," -- even while through the instant the tide of romance will be setting quite otherwhither, with their condonation. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes

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