Sentence examples for crowd opposition from inspiring English sources

The police then opened fire directly into the crowd, opposition Web sites said, citing witnesses.

Here in the capital, an afternoon rally was poorly attended, with no more than 15,000 people, many of them high school students, gathered in the central Square of the Republic -- too small a crowd, opposition leaders conceded, to start a fire, much less a rebellion.

What's more, neither party has geared up to focus on pet issues of the Perot crowd: opposition to immigration, unfettered trade and foreign wars.

A shot of his confused face, looking on as his predecessor bursts through a crowd of opposition parliamentarians during a rare moment of physical confrontation in Canada's Parliament.

Robinson's glancing header deep into stoppage time from Michael Bridges' cross left himself stunned, let alone his colleagues, the crowd and opposition.

As for the directly political domains of parliament and political parties, Field Marshal Sisi does not have the need, as did Nasser, to formulate a single party to crowd out opposition, including in parliamentary elections, and to burnish his image.

While Finn needs to practise if the ball is not coming out quite right, it is not going to help his confidence to make him do it in front of the crowd and opposition.

But he acknowledged that the crowds at opposition rallies have been dwindling lately.

Massive crowds of opposition supporters have taken to the streets, blockading public buildings; regions supporting Mr Yanukovich have talked of breaking away; and the authorities have been forced to take emergency measures to avert a collapse in the banking system.

AN ENORMOUS cheer went up from the crowds of opposition supporters outside Ukraine's Supreme Court on Friday December 3rd, when its judges declared invalid the second round of the country's presidential election, held almost a fortnight earlier.

His speech at Tehran University brought vast crowds of opposition supporters into the streets of the capital, where they chanted antigovernment slogans and clashed with police officers in the largest demonstration in weeks.