Sentence examples for control demonstrations from inspiring English sources

It is a phrase which shapes how forces seek to control demonstrations.

Federal troops and striking oil workers clashed as the government of President Alfredo Palacio tried to control demonstrations that have cut production by the state-owned Petroecuador by about three-quarters.

The department has attempted to control demonstrations against the war in Iraq by using interlocking metal barriers to create pens around groups of demonstrators, making it difficult to get in or out.

Victor Homola (NYT) KOSOVO: REPORT ON G.I.'s American peacekeeping soldiers may have mistreated and threatened local civilians and made "inappropriate physical contact" with women while trying to control demonstrations, United States forces said in a report.

Mr Kim, who last year used aggressive tactics to control demonstrations against imports of American beef, ordered the raid.The president sent his prime minister, Han Seung-soo, to face a press conference, where he bowed in remorse for the deaths.

"We have evidence that after the Tunisia and Egypt conflicts, people in the regime were planning how to control demonstrations in Libya," the prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, told Reuters.

U.S. occupation forces were pressed to use the Japanese administrative machine, especially the Korean police force, for the efficient administration and to control demonstration and riots incited by Korean nationalists and communists.

In the early 1980s ZOMO played a key role in enforcing martial law and controlling demonstrations.

The official said concerns included a new law controlling demonstrations, "the lack of space for dissent, mass trials and death sentences".

"The government of Bahrain denies and condemns the use of lethal force or unlawful means in controlling demonstrations in the Kingdom of Bahrain," she said in a statement.

The government rigidly controls demonstrations, but the collective submission of a complaint remains a means for ordinary people to exert pressure.