Sentence examples for protested side from inspiring English sources

Surrounded by soldiers, women in hijab protested side by side with their male classmates, chanting anti-Suharto slogans, denouncing "corruption, collusion and nepotism", and calling for a full-fledged democracy.

That led to an odd confrontation between the union members and Occupy campers — two groups that had protested side by side on Sunday in the "March on Wall Street South" — a reference to Charlotte's status as a banking city.

In Paris, at the Trocadéro, opposite the Eiffel Tower, human rights organizations like Amnesty International and press freedom groups like Reporters Without Borders protested side by side with representatives of a banned underground Chinese democracy party, Taiwan nationalists and proponents of independence for the Uighurs, a Muslim minority in western China.

Just a year ago, Christians and Muslims in Egypt prayed and protested side by side for the rights of all Egyptians.

By nightfall, demonstrators filled Tahrir Square in a protest that matched the size and ideological diversity of the early days of the revolt, with Islamists and liberals once again protesting side by side.

Egyptians who not long ago were protesting side by side, even members of the same family, now rely on different sources of information, offer widely divergent accounts of what caused Monday's carnage and argue that they are the true defenders of the revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

Televised images of regional leaders from across the country protesting side by side have revived the idea of a Third Front, an assortment of state parties that would function as an alternative to the two national parties, the Congress and B.J.P., which lead the United Progressive Alliance and the National Democratic Alliance, respectively.

Opposition leaders must also rein in violent elements on the protesting side.

We've seen it happen on the Tahrir Square in Cairo during the 2011 revolution in Egypt, with devout Muslims and Coptic Christians protesting side by side.

The arrmy chief, General Prayuth Chan-Ocha, has said he is keen to get both protesting sides to the negotiating table, and has appointed an advisory committee to maintain peace, comprising the heads of the navy, air force and police.

Transgender women played a leading part in the Gezi Park protests, fighting side by side at the barricades with anarchist soccer fans.