Sentence examples for during the first protests from inspiring English sources
The first thing you see as you approach Jalal's base in the Tajoura neighborhood is a bullet-scarred bus — now almost a holy relic — that was used as a shield by rebels during the first protests in Tripoli in early 2011.
Rosemerry Guarita lost her dentures during the first protests by people with disabilities in Bolivia in 2012; she was biting a police officer who was trying to hurt her.
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, who is a political ally of the Jakarta governor, Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama, and angered hard-liners by being out of the city during the first protest, unexpectedly went to the national monument to join Friday prayers with the sprawling crowd.
The first protests I saw happened in November, during Morsi's constitutional referendum.
But during the initial protests last year, the activist said, Mr. Hijab seemed to have some sympathy for the opposition; he had agreed to keep the military and the police away from the first protests.
Similar protests happened "during the first phase of industrialization in Europe and during the initial decades of British colonization in India," he said.
I remember one moment during that first protest in Caracas's Plaza Brión, when a group of us were hiding by a fence in a small alley while government water cannons and rubber bullets pounded our comrades across the square.
And the protestors themselves aren't safe: Two civilians were killed during the first day of protests Wednesday, after police fired live ammunition on protesters who were reportedly attempting to storm police headquarters.
And its interesting to remember that the entire Egyptian phone service and internet was off for several crucial days during the first week of protests and still people gathered in greater and greater numbers.
Last summer he was detained after attending a memorial for Neda Agha Soltan, who was shot dead during the first post-election protests, and was banned from leaving the country last month to attend the Berlin film festival.
