Sentence examples for gathered to stop from inspiring English sources

Huge and threatening crowds gathered to stop the imaginary putsch.

On 17 December troops fired on crowds that had gathered to stop pastor Laszlo Tokes being evicted from his home.

On a previous occasion, when Ayotzinapa students gathered to stop traffic to fundraise on the Autopista del Sol, a highway that runs past Chilpancingo to Acapulco, in December, 2011, police murdered two students and wounded five.

When workmen first threatened it in 1956, after Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin's crimes, war veteran Bobojon Nishanboyev was among the many villagers who gathered to stop them.

Police hit hundreds of unarmed protestors who gathered to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock in North Dakota with water cannons Sunday night.

The goal was to disperse the oil at depth, thereby preventing large slicks from forming directly at the surface above the wellhead where many ships were gathered to stop the leak, and to prevent the oil from impacting the shoreline.

They gathered to debate how to stop the imminent introduction of compulsory classes that critics say is an attempt to brainwash the city's children by the Chinese government in Beijing.

Normally when we hear the word intervention, we would think of friends and family gathered together to stop someone from abusing alcohol or drugs.

She made it inside, where people gathered to help her, working to stop her bleeding, she said, eventually getting her into a car to the hospital.

"We all gathered to ask the government to stop the bombings and attacks by Pakistani forces," said Malik Darwish Lalpoorwal, a tribal elder from Lalpoor district in Nangarhar Province, one of the three provinces where the Pakistanis have shot over the border.

A group of conservative lawyers, all having presumably wonderful health insurance, gathered to find a way to stop millions of mostly lower-income people from accessing affordable health care.