Sentence examples for have hurled rocks from inspiring English sources

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Police have fired teargas, water cannon and even guns at protesters, who have hurled rocks back.

Protesters have hurled rocks and molotov cocktails and attempted to damage and break through the fence using wire cutters and, in some cases, explosives.

Ultra-Orthodox men and boys from the most stringent sects have hurled rocks and eggs at the police and journalists, shouting "Nazis" at the security forces and assailing female reporters with epithets like "shikse," a derogatory Yiddish term for a non-Jewish woman or girl, and "whore".

Though many of the protesters have been peaceful, others have hurled rocks, bottles and Molotov cocktails at police.

Protesters have hurled rocks at police and burned tires, while police have responded with gunfire, water cannons, and tear gas.

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But it also said the protesters were partly to blame because they had hurled rocks and gasoline bombs at the armed police cars.

One prominent youth leader, Roberto Patiño, who runs a nonprofit group encouraging peaceful political solutions, acknowledged that a few protesters had thrown Molotov cocktails at the Guardsmen, or had hurled rocks.

Four tanks cleared a highway overpass from which Mubarak supporters had hurled rocks and firebombs onto the protesters.

Local authorities said migrants had hurled rocks at the police and attempted to block the road to slow down truck traffic near the entrance to the port.

The impact that created the huge crater called the Hellas basin, for example, would have hurled vast amounts of vaporized rock into the sky — leading to decades or centuries of hot rain and flash floods, said Brian Toon of the University of Colorado.

He had approached the officers in Harrow, north London, to help identify a young man who had hurled a rock at a police van.

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