Sentence examples for off the demonstration from inspiring English sources

Mr. Sharaf was one of two names protest leaders said they put forward, and they planned to call off the demonstration next Friday to thank the military.

After a conciliatory phone call from Mr. Schundler that afternoon, Lieutenant Bounocore called off the demonstration and agreed to meet with the mayor this week.

Authorities had asked the opposition to call off the demonstration over political reforms, but at least 5,000 people gathered in a square near parliament.

Authorities had asked opposition lawmakers to call off the demonstration over political reforms, but at least 5,000 people gathered in a square near parliament that has been the site of several anti-government protests since last year.

Reverend Mark Tyler, the senior pastor of Mother Bethel Church who coordinated the event, kicked off the demonstration by calling to mind the first large-scale demonstration of free African Americans 200 years ago at that very same venue, when African American men gathered to denounce the American Colonization Society's plan to resettle free blacks in West Africa.

Frightened of civil war, Mr Ouattara called off the demonstrations and stopped demanding a fresh election.

He was charged with contempt of court, for failing to call off the demonstrations, as a judge recently appointed by Mr Mugabe had ordered him to do.

The families planned to be part of a protest on Feb. 17, and Mr. Terbil said that the authorities detained him on Feb. 15, hoping to head off the demonstrations.

"Now the people out on the streets want more," Ms. Rousseff said, announcing the proposals after meeting with leaders from the Free Fare Movement, a group that set off the demonstrations with a series of smaller protests against bus-fare increases.

At one point the S.C.L.C.'s "Atlanta crowd" had tried to call off the demonstrations while Mr. Shuttlesworth was in the hospital recovering from injuries inflicted by one of the fire hoses of his equally determined nemesis, the arch-segregationist police commissioner Eugene Bull Connoror.

Last year's Bahrain Grand Prix was called off because of the demonstrations and crackdown.