Sentence examples for demonstrations trying to from inspiring English sources

"We are fighting back by doing more and more demonstrations, trying to inform the maximum number of people so they know what is going on and so that they know how the Makhzen is trying to manipulate people," said Mr. Drissi, using the Moroccan term for the ruling elite.

But my life changed forever that day, and I immersed myself in ACT UP, chairing its media committee and publicizing AIDS demonstrations, trying to bring the message of government negligence to the public.

Last September, when monks and ordinary Burmese took to the streets of Rangoon to call for change, the regime, preparing to crush the peaceful demonstrations, tried to cut off phone and Internet access to the outside world.

Anti-government protesters, in defiance of a ban on public demonstrations, tried to take to the streets to denounce what they called President Laurent Gbagbo's failure to carry out the peace plan.

Jefferson County Teachers Association President Brent McKim took issue with Bevin's remarks, noting the protest amounted to just Friday and more than 30 school districts participating in the demonstrations tried to give parents advanced notice about closures.

Independence Square, where most political demonstrations (try to) gather.

After some people in the demonstration tried to obstruct traffic, the police said, four were charged with disorderly conduct.

New this year, the organisers of the demonstration tried to attract international attention by inviting infamous right-wing figures, such as the American alt-right leader Richard Spencer – who declined the invite after the Polish government threatened to ban him from entering the country.

Throughout the decade, until Polish Communism finally collapsed, Mr. Kuron could be seen at protest marches and demonstrations, often trying to keep the peace and always speaking politely to the police in his characteristic raspy voice.

In theory the demonstrations are trying to force an investigation into the affairs of Sharif after it was revealed earlier this year that his children owned offshore holding companies registered in the British Virgin Islands.

Less a labor action than a defiant shaking of fists at large economic forces, it resembled the demonstrations by farmers trying to keep banks from repossessing their land.