Sentence examples for demonstration was small from inspiring English sources

The demonstration was small -- perhaps 50 people -- but clearly planned by influential members of Fatah to take advantage of the television cameras massed outside the parliament's doors.

But the demonstration was smaller and more subdued than most recent protests here, and marchers largely stayed clear of the Israeli checkpoint at the edge of town that been the scene of near-constant street battles in the past three weeks.

Most demonstrations are small and local.

Here in Montreal, demonstrations were small.

Many demonstrations are small and peaceful, with fired workers denouncing low severance pay.

"Even if the demonstrations are small in Dara'a, for us it is an achievement because the person who participates is a possible martyr," Mr. Fares said.

He pointed out that demonstrations were smaller and less violent than those at London's G20 summit in April, adding: "I fundamentally disagree with them that the free market is the source of all ills".

The demonstrations were smaller than those held in past weeks, but they were significant because they came after security forces took control this month of the country's two most restive cities, Hama in central Syria and Deir al-Zour in the east, in a military operation that activists say left hundreds dead.

While the demonstrations were smaller, they were arguably more dramatic.

But in the end, only about 30,000 people turned out many more than at previous protests, but far short of the hundreds of thousands who demonstrated against two previous presidents, during the Philippines' earlier "people power" revolutions.The demonstration was relatively small in part because the president's most respected critics have rejected calls for another popular uprising.

The demonstration was unusually small, too, for an international event -- 7,000 participants according to organizers, 2,000 according to the police.