Sentence examples for placard calling from inspiring English sources

The only visible protest sign was a small white placard calling for the United States military to stop bombing Vieques.

What struck some observers at the time, though, was the more hopeful sign of a protester in the middle of a raucous demonstration inside the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus holding aloft placard calling for Muslim-Christian unity.

By James Thurber The New Yorker, April 22 , 1933P. 11 In a window in Liggett's Drug Store in Grand Central appeared placard calling attention to sale of books, ten cents each "For limited time only".

In Qatar, one photograph showed protestors holding a placard calling for the expulsion of the American ambassador, while next to them a man carried one in support of the release of the Qatari prisoner, Ali Saleh al-Marri, from an American prison.

Some protesters wore tape covering their mouths and carried placards calling the measures a "gagging law".

Mr. Abbott had appeared at rallies alongside vulgar and sexist placards calling Ms. Gillard a liar, and worse.

Mr. Abbott has appeared at rallies alongside vulgar and sexist placards calling Prime Minister Julia Gillard a liar (and worse).

Rahman also had placards calling for the annihilation and beheading of those who insulted Islam, the court was told.

A small group of protesters outside the village held placards calling for Britain's colonial crimes to be investigated.

On April 11th perhaps 50,000 Quebeckers, some brandishing mops and carrying placards calling Mr Charest a maudit menteur (damned liar), marched on the legislature in Quebec City.

Before the 2010 midterm elections, it was common to see placards calling for President Obama to be sent back to his "socialist village in Kenya" at Tea Party rallies.