Sentence examples for calm protest from inspiring English sources

Community leaders helped organize a calm protest in downtown Portland, Oregon, at the Justice Center on Monday night, where supporters chanted "No Justice, No Peace," according to KATU.

The [X]Press also has a write-up of the relatively quiet and calm protest in Sacramento (although it still brought out "hundreds" of people).

Elif Cerrahoglu, a 20-year-old university student, described the scene: "Everything was peaceful, people had gathered in a very calm protest.

The black woman in the photograph stands in calm protest, her long dress fluttering in the breeze as two policemen clad in the heavy black padding and helmets of riot gear rush to remove her from a roadway in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Asked this afternoon about General Musharraf's comments, which seemed part of his government's effort to calm protests in major cities across Pakistan, Mr. Bush seemed annoyed.

But several also scorned the plan's failure to include sanctions for bishops who have transferred priests from parish to parish, and their criticisms suggested that the plan would not calm protests by victims' groups, which have been growing.

If such a science stimulus package is passed, that could calm protests from some of the U.K. research powerhouses that didn't do as well as hoped in the latest annual funding allocations.

After weeks of relative calm, protests took over Bangkok once again this weekend, with tens of thousand of people marching through the city calling for the downfall of the government.

"Mr President" has also tried to knock back the Israeli Prime Minister's request that he calm protests in the West Bank by saying that "Israel wants chaos but we will not be dragged into it" – thereby making it seem like he's both standing up to Israel and capable of quelling Palestinian anger.

By contrast, France agreed last week to cut its fuel tax by 15percentt, a move that largely calmed protests that had gathered force there.

Yingluck, who has been leading a caretaker government, called the parliamentary election last December in hope of solidifying her power and calming protests.