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protestation

prohtestay shuhn

  • n  a formal and solemn declaration of objection
    the many protestations did not stay the execution
  • n  a strong declaration of protest

  • Every present protestation by Miss Strong of her continued devotion to the Kremlin only underlines .
  • It was not merely a protestation by Russia that she no longer distrusted the Western nations; it was also a protestation that they no longer had to distrust her.
  • The more he uttered disappointment, the more fraught it sounded, until it was delivered not just with his signature shoulder-hunching emphasis but with a kind of protestation that .
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  • Zalmay Khalilzad in Bangkok Post
    What (the report) shows is that the government in Iran is not in compliance with UN resolutions, it is not sharing information and its protestation of peaceful intent is not credible,Zalmay Khalilzad, US ambassador to the UN and current...
  • Charles Schumer in Bloomberg
    In a complex and systematic process involving all enforcement agencies, we managed to find the golden path, between protest within limits -sometimes even exceeding the limit - and drawing the red lines against forms of protestation that borderline... Meni Mazuz http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menachem_Mazuz&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHaRO-9NLbGdqScT4GXhYJWnZMwzA Ynetnews http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3820912,00.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNEDbTIqiCuLTw9AQ2SqgGkHfOMYIw Dec 16, 2009 78387 105399 protestation I suppose all the protestation that this violates separation of powers has gone by the wayside," Senator Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, said on the Senate floor after the announcement. "We all knew that was a smokescreen."

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