Sentence examples for last demonstrations from inspiring English sources

This was one of the grandest and, alas, last demonstrations of community heart and power in New York City.

Both sides have insisted that they want to avoid violence, recalling the civil war that erupted after the last demonstrations of this size, in 1991.

He then asked the 18 officers present to volunteer for one last demonstration.

This Saturday's march will be the last demonstration of strength before Ruth Kelly makes her decision.

At the last demonstration, on 31 July, 100 of the 1,000 protesters were detained, many badly beaten.

"The last demonstration against the government [on 12 April] only attracted significant numbers in São Paulo," she said.

The melee was one last demonstration of how ferociously talented these dancers are — how committed, in a hell-for-leather way.

At the hearing McCain said: "I have been a member of this committee for many years and I have never seen anything as disgraceful and outrageous and despicable as the last demonstration that just took place".

The passage of the law, and warnings of possible violence, had been expected to dampen the ardour of protesters for what was billed as the "last demonstration" in a series of half a dozen large rallies that began in December.

The singing of the "International" as a political protest or as a last demonstration was frequently mentioned in them; but despite my profound respect for the German martyrs, such passages had always struck me as a little melodramatic and implausible.

Neither can foreign ministers pursue policies in isolation from their prime minister and Robin Cook's defiance of Blair over the international criminal court's statute was probably the last demonstration of such independence.