Sentence examples for before the demonstrations from inspiring English sources

The government, they said, wanted to act quickly before the demonstrations during Ramadan gave the uprising new momentum.

Before the demonstrations and referendum, the UK government appeared to believe that a concerted campaign could sway Gibraltarian opinion in favour of the deal.

James Miles, a Beijing-based reporter for The Economist magazine, had obtained approval from authorities for a reporting trip to Lhasa before the demonstrations.

In the last pro-democracy protests on this scale, in 1988, it took several rounds of massacres before the demonstrations finally subsided, leaving the regime as strong as ever.

Before the demonstrations degenerated into a street battle between police and protesters, Hoffman and Yippie cofounder Jerry Rubin unveiled Pigasus, a boar hog that would serve as the Yippies' presidential candidate in 1968.

A devoted student tries to untangle the stroke-induced ravings of his teacher in the months before the demonstrations at Tiananmen Square in a novel that gently underlines the hardships endured in contemporary China.

As happened once before, with the demonstrations that toppled the former president, Hosni Mubarak, the results ran far beyond the organizers' expectations.

By Sunday night before the demonstration, the student demonstrators divided into several major factions & the student peace movement faced a crisis that had little to do with its attitude toward the war in Vietnam.

Tells about the makeup job applied to the model before the demonstration.

"It's 2016," Shanda Neal, a 28-year-old activist said before the demonstration.

Eight days before the demonstration, Bradford About Consent set up a Facebook events page.