Sentence examples for protest grounds from inspiring English sources

Sheila Dikshit, the chief minister of Delhi, arrived at the Jantar Mantar protest grounds in the early afternoon, and was booed, heckled and jostled by the crowd, even as the diminutive 74-year-old was surrounded by a police escort.

The library had been my protest grounds, my way of breaking from my working-class background in Hoboken, where education was secondary, to force my way into a world that treasured the Sewanee Review (the head librarian introduced me to it) and other literary journals.

Mong Kok's protest grounds are the grungy counterpoint to the more exuberant and artistic atmosphere at the city's main protest site in Admiralty.

Soapbox speakers abound, but during the weekends the main protest grounds in the Admiralty District resemble an exceedingly well-organized music festival.

Tuesday's actions weren't aimed at retaking the main Mong Kok protest grounds on Nathan Road, but rather at shrinking the buffer of blocked off streets surrounding it.

3 15 p.m. Fighting over flags: The first scuffles of the day break out when a small group of men attempt to march through the protest grounds carrying a Chinese flag.

Hazare was expected to go to the protest ground on Thursday.

Late Saturday afternoon, thousands of people, most of them men, filled Jantar Mantar, an observatory and popular protest ground in New Delhi, where they waved placards and shouted slogans.

As the protest ground on, Hendrik Hertzberg at The New Yorker suggested that the movement needed to quit fooling around with camp-outs and get down to business in more practical ways.

Air traffic controllers and civil aviation staff members joined the protest, grounding all flights to and from Athens and leaving hundreds of travelers stranded at the capital's international airport.

King spoke of the injustices suffered by black bus passengers like Rosa Parks, and reminded the crowd of its Christian faith that justified protests grounded in nonviolence.