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• n  the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest

• A Kind of Loving, though somewhat milder in its remonstrance than Room at the Top and A Taste of Honey, is nevertheless a movie with an urgent social message: the working class is .
• British Ambassador Sir Neville Henderson hurried to the German Foreign Office and delivered a strong remonstrance from His Majesty's Government against the use of force.
• Neither the protests of Preaching Missionaries nor remonstrance from the city's Negro ministers made any difference.

• expostulation
• remonstration
• objection

News & Articles

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• EID gets shut down
  The La Grande City Council voted Wednesday to not move forward with the ordinance to create an Economic Improvement District downtown. City Manager Robert Strope said at the meeting that the city had received letters of remonstrance totaling 41.9 percent of the proposed EID assessment amount.
  June 14, 2013 - La Grande Observer
• EID fails by remonstrance
  The La Grande City Council voted to not move forward with the ordinance to create an Economic Improvement District downtown last night. City Manager Robert Strope said at the meeting that the city had received letters of remonstrance totaling 41.9 percent of the proposed EID assessment amount.
  June 13, 2013 - La Grande Observer

Quotes

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• Mitch Daniels in fwdailynews.com (registration)
  Daniels said on WTHR-TV Wednesday night, "I think it will strengthen local control. There is nothing more local than a referendum. I would be happy if we got rid of the difficult and clumsy remonstrance process and replace it with a straight vote....
• Joseph Crowley in Western Queens Gazette
  Allowing the Flushing Remonstrance to be permanently displayed in its historic birthplace, Queens, would be the ultimate tribute to the significance the document plays in the history of New York City and the nation,Crowley said. "This...
• Kenn Gividen in fwdailynews.com (registration)
  In 2002 we won the remonstrance against a $300 million (plus interest) corporation-wide building initiative,Gividen explained. "Two years later, 2004, I ran for school board and was hammered by the teachers' union (CEA) and The Republic. I...