Sentence examples for act of street from inspiring English sources

What does one say to persuade reluctant bystanders to join with you in resisting some act of street violence?

According to court filings, the authorities had a different theory, saying Wilson, in his zeal to defend his aunt, committed a premeditated act of street justice.

It is understood that Knight's group, the Government of the Dead, was planning to behead an effigy of Prince Andrew with a theatrical guillotine in an act of street theatre on Soho Square in London.

In an act of street theater intended to recall the civil rights movement of the 1960's, 1,200 union supporters streamed slowly across the Brooklyn Bridge late yesterday, accompanying Roger Toussaint, the president of Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union, on a defiant march to his Lower Manhattan jail cell.

Her tale concerned her son, David, who was her nephew until she adopted him after his father was shot to death on David's fourth birthday in an act of street violence.

They said it no longer needed to rely solely on seizing parks, demonstrating in front of the homes of billionaires or performing other acts of street theater.

The law is aimed at young supporters of the armed Basque separatist group E.T.A. who carry out acts of street violence in the northern Basque region almost every weekend.

Protesters threw flour over Bob Hope at a Miss World competition, marched in upon a London radio station which broadcast anti-gay comments, organised sit-ins, locked London councillors overnight in a church hall, and performed impromptu acts of street theatre outside magistrates' courts.

It was at this moment that two acts of street criminality came to threaten the democratic post-conflict assembly in Northern Ireland: the killings now had political consequence.

There she watches the act of another street entertainer, Il Matto ("The Fool"), a talented high wire artist and clown (Richard Basehart).

Anyone who wants to read the high-wire act of Wall Street finance as a cautionary tale, The Money Noose is highly recommended.