Sentence examples for demonstration that led from inspiring English sources

Then, in a demonstration that led to stunned applause, he paused after each sentence and the words were translated into Mandarin Chinese characters, accompanied by a simulation of his own voice in that language, which Dr. Rashid has never spoken.

And it was that unauthorized demonstration that led the frightened authorities to outlaw the spiritual group, which had attracted millions of Chinese with its promises of physical and spiritual salvation through meditative exercises.

As vice chancellor of the University of Ghana in the early 1960s, he fell out with the dictator Kwame Nkrumah over the question of academic freedom, and while teaching at New York University later that decade, he took part in an antiwar demonstration that led to his arrest.

The Paul Greengrass film, in which he played Ivan Cooper, the Protestant MP involved in organising the civil rights demonstration that led to 14 unarmed Catholic men being shot in the Bogside, was 'a voyage of discovery': as a Protestant growing up in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, Nesbitt had been taught virtually nothing about Bloody Sunday.

The deal fed antigovernment demonstrations that led to his ouster in a coup in 2006.

THE demonstrations that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall came out of nowhere, says Günther Dauwen, and had consequences nobody could foresee.

Experts on the terrorist network have been eager to hear its reaction to the nonreligious demonstrations that led to the ouster of presidents in Tunisia and Egypt.

Thirty years ago, during the demonstrations that led to the Shah's downfall, one of the dominant images was scenes of uniformed soldiers firing live ammunition at protesters.

During the month of demonstrations that led to Mr. Ben Ali's fall on Friday, France simply called for "calm" and an end to violence.

Mr. Chávez has alienated a broad spectrum of his people; the demonstrations that led to his brief overthrow began with a general strike by the country's unions.

He played a role in demonstrations that led to the upheaval of a 23-year dictatorship in 1991, then traded politics ("too dangerous") for business.