They called that off, along with making a bunch of widely publicised - amongst the NGO community - not really threats, but warnings that there would be a lot less tolerance for people putting on demonstrations that were unsanctioned, or trying to make some kind of public statement.
Whatever it ends up being called, we already have a decent idea of some of the changes in store, thanks to an early hands-on demonstration that also dropped this week.
The vast majority of cases have come during the three-month crackdown on demonstrations that has taken more than 80 lives since the beginning of October.
Over the last month many occupations have been evicted from their encampments, as cities cracked down on demonstrations that had lasted for several weeks.
In Bangladesh, clashes between Islamist groups and the police left more than 100 people wounded after the protesters tried to march through the capital, Dhaka, in defiance of a ban on demonstrations that has been in force since Friday afternoon.
The UN says that at least 1,100 people have died in Syria as the government has cracked down on demonstrations that began in March.
Activists called not for an end to protests, but for an emphasis on demonstrations that are calm and controlled.
If you go around telling people, 'We're going to ferret out information on demonstrations,' that deters people.
Isocyanates are considered a potent respiratory sensitizer in humans, based largely on circumstantial evidence rather than on clear demonstration that respiratory exposure alone (without associated skin exposure) leads to isocyanate asthma.
When the Indonesian government bid Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis adieu after his recent visit, it decided to say goodbye in the most metal way imaginable: putting on a military demonstration that was savage as hell.
Transferring prognostic results into clinical practice should be based on estimates of the predictive performance of models and on a demonstration that patient outcomes can be improved by the use of prediction rules.
