Sentence examples for on a large crowd from inspiring English sources

On 16 August 2012, South African police opened fire on a large crowd of men who had walked out on strike from a platinum mine at Marikana, about 80 miles north of Johannesburg.

Massacre of Amritsar, also called Jallianwalla Bagh Massacre, Jallianwalla also spelled Jallianwala, incident on April 13 , 1919 in which British troops fired on a large crowd of unarmed Indians in Amritsar in the Punjab region (now in Punjab state) of India, killing several hundred people and wounding many hundreds more.

"Therefore I think the right response to the Amritsar massacre [in which British troops fired on a large crowd of unarmed Indians, killing several hundred and wounding many hundreds more on 13 April 1919] is not for David Cameron to apologise [in fact, the prime minister declined to do so during a visit to the Punjabi city in 2013], but for it to be taught in British classrooms.

South Africa has confirmed 34 miners were shot dead after police opened fire on a large crowd of strikers on Thursday.

Just shy of 24 hours later, at about 3 30 AM on Sunday, a shooter opened fire on a large crowd of people partying outside of a strip mall in Grand Rapids, Michigan, killing one and injuring eight.

Photographs circulated on microblogs of a large crowd of workers from Pangang Group Chengdu Steel and Vanadium being kept away from a slip road to the expressway by a phalanx of police.

He is then thrown and can be seen lying on the floor in front of a large crowd.

Four bystanders were wounded — two men and two women, part of a large crowd gathered on May 30, 2011, for the final day of Urban Beach Week, a raucous, yearly hip-hop and rap event in South Beach.

A final protester, wearing a backpack and waving to a large crowd on onlookers below, crawled down from a rickety crow's nest just hours after campus workers erected a scaffolding around one of the grove's two remaining trees.

"Because we've been so successful, that's why my opponents have been trying to make this election about me lately," Mr. Obama said, to a large crowd on Wednesday evening in Bloomington.

In 1930, a few years after Kafka published "A Hunger Artist," Shipwreck Kelly, the famous flagpole-sitter, ate nothing solid for forty-nine datopatopercherch in Atlantic City, cheered on by a large crowd, and the emaciated Gandhi endured (though barely) three twenty-one-day hunger strikes.