Sentence examples for crackdown on demonstrators from inspiring English sources

But the youths broke off the meetings after a violent April crackdown on demonstrators.

This was followed by months of unrest and a harsh crackdown on demonstrators, journalists and political activists.

The lawmakers, along with seven others, submitted their resignations last month from the Parliament over the government's deadly crackdown on demonstrators.

Washington also criticized the crackdown on demonstrators, and President Obama scored with protesters on Friday when he praised their "courage and dignity" and called for fair elections.

The Chinese government is particularly sensitive this year, because it is the twentieth anniversary of the crackdown on demonstrators at Tiananmen Square.

There were only scattered reports of violence outside of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's harsh crackdown on demonstrators in Libya, with the worst of it in Yemen.

He tried to do the same thing this time: political concessions, bags of cash and new cars to wavering allies; violent crackdowns on demonstrators.

In Tunisia, where the earliest revolts energized the regional upheaval in January, the Washington Media Group, a public relations and communications firm, ended its $420,000 image-building contract with Tunis on Jan . 6 soon after reports emerged of violent government crackdowns on demonstrators.

The uprising began with peaceful protests but has relied increasingly on armed insurgency amid violent crackdowns on demonstrators by the security forces and the government shelling of cities and towns.

The protests were part of a broader buildup of anger over crackdowns on demonstrators by Brazilian security forces that have included the use of rubber bullets, tear gas and pepper spray.

The US has issued a sharp rebuke to Bahrain after a day of crackdowns on demonstrators, in which hospitals were blockaded by riot police, scores of people were wounded and the Shia diaspora condemned the kingdom's rulers.