Sentence examples for rival protests from inspiring English sources

Reuters reported security forces firing into the air to keep rival protests from clashing.

TOURISTS in Dresden this weekend risk landing in the middle of rival protests.

Citizens in rival protests while army does exercises in a street in Suez.

Mumbai saw rival protests by a big Muslim organisation, the Raza Academy, then a big Hindu one, the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena.

A second Venezuelan military officer condemned President Hugo Chávez today as supporters and opponents of the president staged rival protests for a second day.

LONDON — The police arrested more than 160 people in East London on Saturday during rival protests by hundreds of anti-Islamist activists and thousands of counterdemonstrators near one of Britain's largest Muslim communities.

There were also occasional rival protest movements.

Although this was organised with public money, it was outnumbered by a rival protest demanding justice in the Rosenberg case.

Seeking to hobble the protests, the authorities cancelled buses the Brotherhood had hired to ferry their people to the capital, stopped traffic miles from the rally, and broadcast that the police would let "counter-demonstrators", official lingo for beltajiya (government thugs), stage a rival protest.

A novel aspect of the election campaign was the Labour candidate insisting that TfL, though good in many ways, could be a leaner and more entrepreneurial business machine, while his Conservative rival protested that any funding cut in the form of the fares freeze would wreck its finances - this following years of Tory complaints that TfL is inefficient, "bloated" and so on.

A January 12 Pegida march in Munich attended by 1,500 sparked a rival protest that drew a crowd of 20,000 people.