Sentence examples for reach the protest from inspiring English sources

Just to reach the protest sites, the crowds defied multiple government efforts to keep them away.

"I was very concerned," said Brendan Knowlton, 26, a computer programmer who was arrested as he was trying to reach the protest that day on First Avenue.

But tens of thousands more never made it, thronging Second and Third Avenues in what some described as a vain and baffling attempt to reach the protest that people had bundled up, ridden buses or skipped brunch to attend.

The previous day, the president of the opposition Sandinista Renovation Movement, Ana Margarita Vijil, was held for over six hours by the National Police after attempting to reach the protest.

This tactic has been used before to make it more difficult for people to reach the protests in central Kiev.

The young accountant, who had been arrested before he even reached the protest, was sentenced to two years in prison.

By the time I reached the protest zone just after 8 pm, smoke was filling the air.

About 50 protesters managed to reach the square where the protest was due to take place but they were surrounded by hundreds of police and some were arrested, Reuters reported.

Whether the protests reach the violence of the meeting last year in Davos remains to be seen.

Even as the announcement was made, the security police fired tear gas, rubber bullets and birdshot at antigovernment protesters trying to reach the former epicenter of the protests in the capital, Manama, and in villages scattered throughout the Persian Gulf island nation, rights activists said.

Broadcasts like this, however, do not reach the controlled airwaves of the protest site.