Sentence examples for assembled on the steps from inspiring English sources

On 1 May 1981, a rally assembled on the steps of Liverpool's Anglican cathedral to listen to speeches by trade unionists and the then Bishop of Liverpool, David Sheppard.

In early May, House and Senate leaders of both parties assembled on the steps of the Capitol to pledge their support for the act and celebrate what they described as its imminent approval.

"Going to Albany to make a midnight deal so that none of us get a say in it just isn't right," Mr. Fidler told more than 100 drivers assembled on the steps of City Hall.

The next morning, the student applicants assembled on the steps of the Library to hear if they had passed their exams, and then the first Cornellians marched up East Hill to the mostly unfinished and unbuilt campus for their first classes.

There was a moment of excitement when Dr. King and other speakers assembled on the steps, but a succession of long, rhetorical, and, to a certain extent (when press helicopters buzzed too low or when the microphone went dead), inaudible speeches put a damper on that.

A coalition of disability rights groups assembled on the steps of the Georgia state capitol in Atlanta to plead for a stay of execution for Hill, 53, who is scheduled to be killed with a single injection of pentobarbital at Georgia's Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson at 7pm ET tonight.

A few minutes before the rally hour of 11 a.m., those who had been rounded up for the event began to assemble on the steps.

By Bijan Stephen On a recent, bitterly cold Saturday, the 3 Million Majority Marching Band was assembling on the steps of the main branch of the New York Public Library, under the gaze of Patience, the library's southernmost marble lion.

A protester yelled, "Free the horses!" On a recent, bitterly cold Saturday, the 3 Million Majority Marching Band was assembling on the steps of the main branch of the New York Public Library, under the gaze of Patience, the library's southernmost marble lion.

At noon on Jan . 1 a procession of prominent leaders -- including a former United States president, two United States senators and two former New York mayors -- will assemble on the steps of City Hall to mark the inauguration of Michael R. Bloomberg as the city's 108th mayor.

In New York, hundreds of activists are scheduled to assemble on the steps of the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine and begin a massive candlelight march to nearby Riverside Church, where MLK delivered his famous, "Beyond Vietnam" speech in 1967.