Sentence examples for scattering demonstrators from inspiring English sources

Police responded with tear gas, scattering demonstrators.

Several hours after the march stepped off at noon, chaos erupted outside the Garden at Seventh Avenue and 33rd Street when a papier mâché dragon float was set on fire, scattering demonstrators.

After scattering demonstrators with a comprehensive show of force, Bahrain's government banned all public gatherings, imposed a curfew from 4pm 4am in some areas of Manama and sent its security forces to two of the city's hospitals.

Officers wielding batons responded with bursts of tear gas, scattering demonstrators and tourists as police helicopters circled overhead and flares exploded.

Videos posted online by activists appeared to support the accounts of witnesses who told The Associated Press that security forces had scattered demonstrators marching to Pearl Square by firing tear gas and driving vehicles at them.

The move to suppress the current protests is beginning to take shape, with the mass deployment of security forces, the scattering of demonstrators and the purging of the movement's leadership, analysts said.

After a short standoff, baton charges scattered the demonstrators.

An officer sitting atop an armored jeep fired tear-gas canisters that scattered the demonstrators.

Demonstrators scattered, but calm returned within an hour.

The deaths of two people had already been attributed to the protests — a policeman and a demonstrator who were hit by vehicles leaving the scene as demonstrators scattered under pressure from the police.

There were scattered gatherings of demonstrators today, despite intermittent heavy rain, and early this evening police arrested about 40 people who had been riding bicycles through downtown Washington chanting slogans like "No more blood for oil".