Sentence examples for protest gatherings from inspiring English sources

Last summer silent protest gatherings were banned.

The police estimated 50,000, still one of the largest protest gatherings in years.

The violence was a sharp escalation of Ukraine's two-month political crisis, which has brought round-the-clock protest gatherings, but had been largely peaceful.

But the activists say they are getting around some of those restraints by shifting to different platforms (including a Skype-like network called YY Voice) and using code words to discuss protest gatherings.

For more than a week, these vast nocturnal protest gatherings – from parents with babies to students, workers, artists and pensioners – have spread across France, rising in number, and are beginning to panic the government.

Since February, the government's ingrained fears of challenges to one-party rule have been magnified by online calls for "Jasmine Revolution" protest gatherings inspired by the political flux across the Middle East and North Africa.

Security forces had surrounded the camp for days after gunmen attacked a checkpoint and then, officials said, retreated to safety amid the protest gathering.

The largest protest gathering in Slovakia since the Prague Spring occurred on March 25 , 1988 during this so-called "Candle Demonstration" in Bratislava, thousands of Slovaks quietly held burning candles to show their support for religious freedom and human rights.

The city hall staged a massive protest gathering at the time, led by Ian Paisley and James Molyneaux, which was designed to highlight unionist disgust at the British and Irish governments' meddling in Northern Irish affairs.

The Indonesian military and police opened fire on a peaceful protest gathering in the West Papuan capital of Jayapura in October 2011, killing at least six people and injuring dozens.

A protest gathering in central Moscow passed off peacefully and with lower-than-expected numbers, a sign that political passions are perhaps cooling as Russia approaches its 10-day new year holiday.