Sentence examples for scale of the demonstration from inspiring English sources

Police, who had underestimated the scale of the demonstration, struggled to hold the line against the protesters at Millbank.

He said while they had anticipated the scale of the demonstration, they had not expected any trouble.

An overhead view of the protest, posted on a Turkish-language Facebook page for supporters of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, gave a sense of the scale of the demonstration.

The scale of the demonstration became apparent hours earlier, when tens of thousands gathered near Trafalgar Square at midday for a march intended to take them along the Embankment, past Westminster to Millbank, where they were told to gather for speeches.

But, whatever the scale of the demonstrations, the subsequent clamp-down was ferocious.

However, a heavy security presence is said to have restricted the scale of the demonstrations which were called in response to a court's decision to uphold life prison sentences against several leading opposition activists.

Writing on Twitter, Hossam Bahgat, an activist with the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, defended the anti-Morsi protesters from charges of ignoring the democratic will of the people by pointing to the vast scale of the demonstrations.

The scale of the demonstrations, coming just one year after crowds in Tahrir Square cheered Mr. Morsi's inauguration, appeared to exceed even the massive street protests in the heady final days of the uprising that overthrew President Hosni Mubarak in 2011.

The Americas Editor for the BBC World Service, Eric Camara, describes the scale of the demonstrations.

Earlier, Brazilian striker Fred, who began his career in Belo Horizonte, admitted that while he was concerned by the scale of the demonstrations being planned, he supported the cause.

Protests against the US president's visit are expected to be huge, at least on the scale of the demonstrations against the Iraq War and George Bush in the mid-2000s – perhaps bigger.