Sentence examples for a sit in of from inspiring English sources

Mr López Obrador alleges that behind the government's assertions about a lack of money and technology to modernise Pemex lie the ambitions of powerful leaders to privatise the industry.PRD lawmakers in April staged a sit in of Congress and took over the speaker's platform, effectively blocking the legislature's functioning for two weeks and preventing debate on the reform law.

Troops moved to surround a sit-in of angry and forlorn Brotherhood supporters near Cairo university.

In York, they're on day seven of a sit-in of the university's exhibition centre.

In November, clashes broke out in Cairo when security forces violently dispersed a sit-in of family members of victims of the revolution.

Last week, six House Democrats expressed their displeasure with the upper chamber by staging a sit-in of sorts on the Senate floor.

Well, the immediate cause is that the police moved in heavily on Saturday morning to break up a sit-in of about 200 people.

Reporting for two hours that morning, she and Adam witnessed many killings by live ammunition, as police stormed a sit-in of demonstrators who were demanding the reinstatement of Morsi.

At one point, for example, she threatened suicide, and she later decided to "take back the land" with a sit-in of sorts, lying in protest on the disputed plot.

A small group of Sanders supporters staged a sit-in of the media centre, largely in protest at the party's use of superdelegates to bolster Clinton's margin of victory in states where Sanders won the most votes.

That arrangement, and the current crisis, can be seen as a continuation of a built-in conflict between authoritarian rulers and parliaments that dates to 1906, when a sit-in of 14,000 Iranians supported by bazaar merchants, clerics and a reformist press forced the monarchy to agree to create a parliament, hold elections and accept a constitution modeled on that of Belgium.

On Saturday, police brutally attacked a sit-in of activists who'd been wounded in the February revolution, who were protesting that little had changed.