Sentence examples for memory of demonstrations from inspiring English sources

The memory of demonstrations in São Paulo against a proposed rise in bus fares, which morphed into the biggest nationwide protests in 20 years and brought millions of Brazilians onto the streets in 100 cities last June, remains fresh.

In my latest book I explore how conflict escalates, in a small poem based on memory of the perimeter demonstrations.

I have a very clear memory of one of those large demonstrations in Hyde Park.

Neither the students nor the Communist party seem to have known in advance what positions they were going to take as demonstrations in memory of the reformist Hu Yaobang escalated into a full-scale confrontation between citizens and the government.

The communist regime was forced in 1980 to accept the erection of this graceful structure combining anchors and crosses, dedicated to the memory of workers killed in political demonstrations ten years before.

Ms. Burn of Oxford stressed that universities in Britain are more interested in academically directed personal statements than they are in reflections on personal memories or demonstrations of character.

As thousands of people took part in a Victory Day demonstration in memory of the Soviet victory and against the Kiev government, an unidentified group of armed, masked men in black fatigues attacked a local police station, occupied the first two floors and forced police officers to barricade themselves on the third floor.

Memories of the mass demonstrations that shook Tehran and other cities in 2009 after rigged presidential elections have not faded.

Some dangled keys and carried candles in memory of the 1988 anti-communist "candle demonstration".

In 1929 The New York Times referred to the May Day parade in Mexico City as "the annual demonstration glorifying the memory of those who were killed in Chicago in 1887".

His death sparked weeks of demonstrations.