The purpose of the rally was for the protesters to inveigh before the government the injustice of such policies. From LearnThat.org.
Verb (used without object) : to inveigh against isolationism. From Dictionary.com.
Preston Peabody makes Marlowe inveigh against the public. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Let us not then inveigh against the goddess who blindly distributes them. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
Good people everywhere will want to inveigh against perceived wrongdoing. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Did he ask these Mid East leaders to inveigh upon Barak and Arafat here in any way?. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Joe Lockhart] Reference
Not once in the years 1941-1945 did I hear a single American inveigh against the war. From Wordnik.com. [After The War: The Victories At Home] Reference
A victory in Iraq would inveigh against the defeatist political agenda of the Democrats. From Wordnik.com. [Constant Shouts of 'Liar!' Overwhelm Truth] Reference
The detective had, indeed, good reasons to inveigh against the bad luck which pursued him. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World in 80 Days] Reference
I do not inveigh against high dropout rates, low test scores, or obdurate teachers 'unions. From Wordnik.com. ['Real Education'] Reference
It is not even worth the while now for scholars to inveigh against the folly of such superstition. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Did she become a woman's rights woman and inveigh against man's tyranny and woman's weak submission?. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
We are more prone to inveigh against it, and accuse others of the vice than to admit it in ourselves. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals] Reference
Should it come down to using budget reconciliation, you can expect the punditocracy to inveigh against it. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Lux: The Myths of the Battle of Health Care Reform] Reference
Actors talk of art, and of unconventionality; they inveigh against commercialism and pose most picturesquely. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
The poisons generated by remorse inveigh against the system, and eventually produce marked physical deterioration. From Wordnik.com. [Sister Carrie] Reference
They inveigh against the governments of Europe, because, as they say, they favour the powerful and oppress the weak. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Trollope's America] Reference
And these icons of good governance lose no opportunity to go the floor of the House and Senate to inveigh against it. From Wordnik.com. [William Fisher: Good News 2009] Reference
Sometimes they assume the character of demagogues, and inveigh against the rapacity and corruption of the court and government. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Morocco] Reference
"Bluidy Clavers" was Sheriff of Wigtown in her day, and in her presence he dared to inveigh against one who was still the idol of. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Border Marches] Reference
In fact, one can't help wonder if Doug, who used to inveigh against supply-side nonsense, has been drawn to the economic dark side. From Wordnik.com. [Jared Bernstein: The Most Important Piece of Paper in America] Reference
“When in private society I inveigh against pickpockets I cannot imagine, sir, that there should be a pickpocket in the company.”. From Wordnik.com. [The American Senator] Reference
They will inveigh against doing it in the first year of a new administration ( "You don't need that kind of fight in the first year"). From Wordnik.com. [MJ Rosenberg: Can the 44th President Move the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict To the Backburner?] Reference
But since this man is the only one who has dared openly to mutilate the Scriptures, and unblushingly above all others to inveigh against. From Wordnik.com. [ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus] Reference
No one's asking Republicans to inveigh against principles they hold dear, like free markets, corporate gluttony, or private health care. From Wordnik.com. [Norm Stamper: Racism, John McCain and Other Republicans] Reference
It is, indeed, very good politics to inveigh against the Republicans 'holding the middle class hostage to secure tax cuts for the wealthy. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Abrams: Reagan and Clinton Raised Taxes in Recessions -- And Created 40 Million Jobs] Reference
For nothing makes rebuke less painful or more beneficial than to refrain from anger, and to inveigh against wrong-doing mildly and kindly. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
JOHNSTON: Well, in fact, in my book, I inveigh against the danger that our tax system will turn us into socialists, if we were to adopt a flat tax. From Wordnik.com. [Perfectly Legal:The Covert Campaign to Rig our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich- and Cheat Everyone Else] Reference
But now Grasso, one of the few Wall Streeters willing to inveigh publicly against corporate greed, looks more like a greedhead with each passing day. From Wordnik.com. [A Case Of Big Greed At The Big Board] Reference
It was his business to inveigh against existing evils, and perhaps there is no easier business when once the privilege of an audience has been attained. From Wordnik.com. [Phineas Finn] Reference
Do you have to get over that hump with people, 'cause it's so routine for politicians and for that matter people in the news industry to inveigh against lobbyists. From Wordnik.com. [Mississippi's Haley Barbour, GOP Heavyweight] Reference
It even used to be thought rather bad form, if not actually vaguely treasonous, to inveigh against its rulings (as distinct from defying them, which is another matter). From Wordnik.com. [Choosing A New Justice] Reference
He spoke, in the egotistic strain usual with him, of the righteousness of his own course, and then began to inveigh in the most violent terms against those who opposed him. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
For this, not only friendship, but my own ingenuousness, which has furnished thee with the knowledge of the facts against which thou art so ready to inveigh, require of thee. From Wordnik.com. [Clarissa Harlowe] Reference
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