protest too much

Examples of protesting

protesting

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Consumers and their representatives put political pressure on management to do whatever is necessary to return the protesting workers to their regular work functions.
When protesting against the project they aim also to influence the projects that are, from the government agency's point of view, its alternatives.
A partner responded to the action of the other with a controlling or humiliating negative response or by physically moving away or verbally protesting.
It could be a case of the lady protesting too much.
The posters also tended to show the views of people protesting against war and in favour of peace.
It then set up a committee to interview and investigate the professional credentials of the protesting writers.
His essay draws out the national and international limits to claims that the organisations had forged a transnational milieu of protesters and habits of protesting.
Unfortunately, our data do not allow us to identify who is protesting.
There is culture-internal unease about the edibility of sago grubs, and this unease is compensated through protesting a great deal about earthworms.
Whereas the latter clearly focus on pensions, the union is all over the place but particularly focuses on protesting against cutbacks as such.
Their criticisms amount to a kind of cultural protectionism, the rearguard action of outmoded gatekeepers protesting the rise of new mediators.
For the protesting, middle-class voice of the nameless narrator there is only one explanation for the events of the night - the supernatural.
Given enough time, they'll probably morph into the later generation of tanks that lined up against the protesting masses in 1953.
They sought to weaken the existing government by protesting publicly and extracting one concession after another.
And we have certainly seen that it was never beyond a given pandit to endorse one reformist cause while aa protesting another.
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