Sentence examples for protests convened from inspiring English sources

Activists said other large protests convened in Abu Kamal, a town on the Iraqi border, and the region around Dara'a, near the Jordanian border.

Since Feb. 11, when Mr. Mubarak was forced from office after protests convened in Tahrir Square, Field Marshal Tantawi has served as the head of the ruling military council, which has exercised absolute and largely unaccountable power.

Steven Douglas eventually became the Democratic nominee two months later in a reconvened convention in Baltimore, but Southern "fire eaters" in protest convened their own impromptu convention, and nominated Kentucky Senator John Breckenridge as the true Southern candidate.

A second protest, hastily convened on May 12 when Mr. Mubarak extended the emergency law, also drew about 100 demonstrators.

The announcement by Mr. Makhlouf comes a day before weekly protests that have convened after Friday Prayer.

After a protest, the AFL Commission convened and overturned the result, awarding Fremantle the victory.

Yankees Manager Joe Girardi protested, and the umpires convened, but the ground rules dictate that a ball hit off that particular catwalk is in play.

And in May, during an angry, seven-hour televised panel discussion that he convened to protest his appearance on the Forbes list of the world's richest leaders (the magazine estimated his net worth at nine hundred million dollars), Castro said, "We must continue to pulverize the lies that are told against us....This is the ideological battle, everything is the Battle of Ideas".

1 53 p.m. PST/Baltimore SocialistWorker.org reports that 500 students and supporters convened to protest the "schools-to-prison pipeline" in the city.

Protesters have repeatedly convened there since. .

Barber started to convene protests at the state capitol, in Raleigh, known as Moral Mondays, which often drew hundreds of people, and were most immediately a response to the Republican legislative agenda.