Sentence examples for protests commenced from inspiring English sources
During the afternoon, the National Guard deployed eight armoured vehicles and the Bahrain Defence Force deployed tanks and at least 50 armoured personnel carriers armed with machine guns around the capital, Manama, the first time military armoured vehicles had been seen in the streets since the protests commenced.
But the 60-plus people milling around canvas tents on the grass weren't singing "Kumbaya" as they piled into a muddy gazebo for the final meeting before the following day's protest would commence.
— группа Pussy Riot (@pussy_riot) 1 Sep 12 Here is an English translation of the complete Novaya Gazeta interview: Q. Archpriest Dmitri Smirnov says that "Pussy Riot's stunt was like the attack volley of the Aurora, like a signal to attack the Church — and after their protest the attack commenced".
No one was there Sunday evening as the women's group commenced its protest a few hundred yards away.
In a sense, the pat-down is a test of a new kind of emergency broadcast system, a hybrid contraption of old and new media, call and response, a place where protests are lodged, articulated and commenced.
The local leadership in some West Bank towns commenced non-violent protests against Israeli occupation by engaging in tax resistance and other boycotts.
There, now numbering around 2,500, they commenced to blow whistles and hooters, sing out slogans and protest anthems, and throw fireworks, flares, and other objects onto the field.
The German commanders protested that their forces were incapable of an offensive but the warnings were ignored and Operation Lüttich, commenced on 7 August around Mortain.
So the weirdness commenced.
