Sentence examples for past demonstrations from inspiring English sources
So far, however, Jordanian public protests have been relatively small compared with past demonstrations against Israel.
The slim presence is in sharp contrast to past demonstrations, where protesters have complained of over-policing.
Even protests in front of Japanese diplomatic missions in China were small and relatively muted compared with past demonstrations.
Central Park is the only area that can accommodate a crowd of that size, as past demonstrations have shown.
At one point, the police stretched an orange net across West Street in downtown Manhattan, a tactic they have employed during past demonstrations, sometimes followed by mass arrests.
Sporadic protests erupted again Thursday, though their numbers were not as large as in past demonstrations, and they seemed confined to Kurdish areas.
The result of what was effectively a straw poll, not even an opinion poll, was predictable based on past demonstration turn outs including a human chain across the country the year before last.
But unlike in past Greenpeace demonstrations, protesters who were asked to leave on Saturday did so without a fuss, like Casson Trenor, an organizer, who had to exit after a restaurant worker spotted the fake menus, Mr. Trenor said.
The view from the mainland While the blanket censorship makes it difficult to assess public sentiment towards the protest (state media has taken a hardline on the protests and censors blocked or scrubbed clean social media, mainland citizens have responded to past Hong Kong demonstrations with a mixture of puzzlement, envy and disdain.
To the Embassy!" And, over the past days, demonstrations have sprouted up at the bottom of the anonymous office-tower block on an urban highway that houses, on an upper floor with no identifying national flag visible from the street, the Israeli Embassy.
Every June 16, on the anniversary of the Soweto uprising, a protest in 1976 against the education system under apartheid, her parents sneaked her past street demonstrations to get her to school, even going so far as hiding her in the trunk of their car, she said.
