Sentence examples for a vast protest from inspiring English sources

In the third week of April 1982, Ground Zero organized a vast protest against nuclear war in which as many as a million people participated in about 800 cities and towns.

The scale of that discontent had already become clear in the past week as thousands of young Spaniards created a vast protest camp in the heart of the capital.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia Ethiopiaia's ruling coalition has elected a new chairman and eventual prime minister from a vast protest-hit region, in a major shift in leadership that could also ease persistent unrest in one of Africa's fastest-growing economies.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Many of Iran's opposition supporters expected last Thursday to be a moment of climactic triumph, with calls for a vast street protest on the 31st anniversary of the country's Islamic Revolution.

We were swept along by chanting crowds to the vast protest area of Khartoum now under the control of Sudan's young revolutionaries.

The catalyst for those protests, which resembled a small echo of the vast protests that toppled autocratic rulers in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya this year, appeared to be the government's rejection of a request by some opposition lawmakers to question the prime minister about the use of public funds.

Even as mourners, including hundreds of officers who came here from across the country, took tentative steps forward, they acknowledged the cathartic backdrop against which Wednesday's services took place: in a country rived by a debate over race and policing, upended by vast protests and nationwide soul searching.

The attacks in recent weeks have escalated around Dara'a, in the south, and in Hama, a tense city in central Syria where vast protests gathered earlier this year before security forces retook the city in August.

It was a victory of sorts for President Lee Myung-bak, whose decision to end a ban on American beef imports prevailed over vast protests and the loss of three cabinet ministers.

If so, it is the first death sentence to be issued in cases involving the hundreds charged in the vast protests that followed the declaration of a landslide victory for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the June 12 elections.

WASHINGTON — The vast protests gripping Cairo put President Obama in a position both awkward and familiar, recalling the winter of 2011, when he grappled with what to do about another embattled Egyptian president, a restive military and angry young Egyptians quick to see a meddling American hand in their political drama.