Sentence examples for protested violently from inspiring English sources

Supporters of the opposition leader protested violently in Lusaka, claiming the results were rigged.

As thousands protested violently outside the Congress here, Gen. Augusto Pinochet, Chile's former dictator, assumed a much-disputed Senate seat today that protects him from prosecution for crimes committed during his 17 years in power.

Notwithstanding the well-wishers along the Strand, few have shown much enthusiasm for it; and, amid the rowing over her record, many hated it.On April 13th a few thousand former miners and anarchists protested violently against Mrs Thatcher's memory in Trafalgar Square, recalling the bitter industrial strife that characterised her early years in power.

Salafists have stopped music concerts, disrupted art shows, ransacked the US embassy (ostensibly in anger at a film which portrayed the Prophet Muhammad in a negative light) and have protested violently at universities.

Our priority should be to explain the principles of legitimate resistance and of Islamic ethics in conflict situations, not to encourage people to protest violently against the accusation that they believe in a violent religion.

Violence breeds violence, and by protesting violently, throwing rocks, firebombs and even shooting, these Palestinians no longer become protesters, they become aggressors.

Supporters on both sides have threatened to protest violently against a loss.

The others plan to raise chickens and plant forest systems using Sinchi's model, although many coca growers are protesting violently against any change.

Though a small section of the crowd began protesting violently near the end of the demonstration, the day was mainly peaceful; "The predominant event of the day was that of a great and peaceful army of dissent moving through the city," The Times reported.

Once I did ask him whether a solution to a clue was quite fair to today's Guardian solvers, as it depended on knowing that the activities of bands of Welshmen dressed as women, protesting violently against the effects of high road tolls in South Wales between 1842 and 1844, are called collectively the Rebecca Riots.

"A minority of Muslims fell into the trap of protesting violently," Mr Assenousi lamented.