Sentence examples for charged a crowd of from inspiring English sources

Club-wielding hooligans charged a crowd of lawyers gathered at Karachi's high courts.

The massacre occurred when government cavalry charged a crowd of around 60,000 gathered in St Peter's Field in Manchester to demand the reform of parliamentary representation.

At Port Elizabeth, and also at Grahamstown, police with batons charged a crowd of Africans, estimated in each instance at about 200, who had congregated outside the court where "defiers" were being tried.

On a hot summer's day on 16 August 1819, members of the 15th Hussars light cavalry charged a crowd of more than 60,000 protesters gathered at St Peter's Field in Manchester.

Witnesses said a man had fallen when shots were fired by security forces charging a crowd of 1,000 protesters.

From the convention rostrum, Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff of Connecticut, denounced 'Gestapo tactics in the streets of Chicago.'" Earlier in the week, Mr. Silverman captured the lack of restraint by the Chicago police as they charged into a crowd of demonstrators.

The Peterloo Massacre (or Battle of Peterloo) occurred at St Peter's Field, Manchester, England, on 16 August 1819, when cavalry charged into a crowd of 60,000 80,000 that had gathered to demand the reform of parliamentary representation.

Two, other people have mentioned it, but still: a V-shaped wedge of mounted police charging into a crowd of teenagers – whose only objective at the time was to leave Parliament Square.

They are less harmful than a metal baton at close range, far less dangerous then firing baton rounds and more discriminating than horses charging into a crowd of people – all tactics that the police can lawfully use now.

Fresh, clean-uniformed policemen from another town were in charge, and a crowd of dirty and disarrayed citizens crowded around them, mostly asking after lost relatives.

He spends much of the day pretending to have an important telephone conversation with Barack Obama. 1 May: Cameron dresses up in a suit made of £50 notes and charges through a crowd of potential voters at a Bromley shopping centre, while George Osborne runs around behind him with a basket of puppies.