Sentence examples for contained protest from inspiring English sources

In these cases, what began as a relatively small and contained protest against a university administration - a protest by the young and impatient against the old and unbending - burgeoned into a mass movement against the government.

It is counting on backup help from Tampa officials who plan to ban certain potential weapons citywide, and additional ones in a designated "clean zone" around the convention and in a more contained protest area expected to draw thousands of demonstrators.

Photographers leave home expecting at the very least to be stopped for carrying a camera, and perhaps even detained if the camera contains protest photos.

Despite threats, hundreds of arrests and a heavy police presence, the Zimbabwean government has been unable to contain protest action.

Because of what the historian Clayborne Carson describes as the tension between the desire of government to contain protests within prescribed limits and the desire of protesters to exceed those limits, some scholars say organizers have often accepted restrictions on their freedom to march in return for permission for large numbers to gather.

As the security forces have moved to contain protests, the contest over freedom in Bahrain has moved to the judiciary.

Photo: Violence broke out in Budapest when the police tried to contain protests calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany.

It has been adept at isolating and containing protests by angry farmers or the urban underclass, using a mixture of intimidation and pay-offs.

"They think this is a way to contain protests, but what happened is the workers have come away empowered," Mr. Bahgat said.

Jehanne Henry, a senior researcher on Sudan for Human Rights Watch, said Sudanese forces have in the past used live bullets when attempting to contain protests, and criticised what she said was a "knee-jerk" reaction to the demonstrations this week.

The movement has been particularly effective in Tea Party strongholds like Virginia, Florida and Texas, but the police have been called in to contain protests in states including Maryland and California, where opponents are fighting laws passed in recent years to encourage development around public transportation hubs and dense areas in an effort to save money and preserve rural communities.