Sentence examples for demonstrations were being from inspiring English sources

Increasingly, around the world, public demonstrations were being staged... for television'.

Smaller demonstrations were being held in other parts of the city, blocking major roads and causing traffic chaos.

I recently spent time in Turkey, Qatar, Kuwait and Jordan during a period in which the French opposition to war was heating up at the United Nations and huge antiwar demonstrations were being held around the world.

Todd S. Purdum (NYT) THE CONVENTIONS PHILADELPHIA'S RED SCARE More than a month after the Republican convention ended, Philadelphia residents learned yesterday of the police department's rationale for a raid that resulted in 75 arrests at a warehouse where demonstrations were being planned.

However, the gang rape and subsequent death of a young woman on a moving bus in New Delhi led the embassies of the United States and Britain to issue advisories to their citizens to avoid certain neighborhoods in New Delhi where demonstrations were being held.

An advisory issued by the United States on Dec. 22 told American citizens to avoid the areas near India Gate and Rashtrapati Bhavan on Raisina Hill, where large demonstrations were being held to protest the government's inaction on crimes against women.

Demonstrations were were given fresh impetus by the fatal shootings last week of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota.

China's response to the week's demonstrations is being watched carefully by the outside world.

Demonstrations are being held across the UK in protest against benefit cuts for disabled people.

The demonstrations are being held on the 51st anniversary of the Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact.

Still, these officials acknowledge that they have little concrete intelligence indicating that such large or unruly demonstrations are being planned.