Sentence examples for square was cleared from inspiring English sources

Clashes with riot police followed before the square was cleared.

The square was cleared shortly after midnight, police said, although some of the suspects complained of their treatment.

Another, unnamed, ex-soldier tells Ms Lim that every soldier in his company had to hand in his ammunition after the square was cleared.

In the chaos that ensued after the square was cleared, the men appeared to have moved into the crowds, and that was when the assaults began.

Slowly the main square was cleared and anticipation grew.

Some protesters fought back with rocks, fireworks and Molotovs, forcing the battle into an early stalemate, but after a few hours of sporadic fighting, most of the square was cleared by the early evening, leaving behind a residue of an estimated 24 arrested protesters and five hospital-bound cops.

According to leaked "Tiananmen papers", Mr Li moved at a meeting on June 2 1989 that the square be cleared.

"Possibly thousands of people were killed when the squares were cleared; 40,000 are in prison; we've seen death penalties be handed out in batches of several hundreds; and many of us will have had first-hand testimony of people being tortured in the Egyptian justice system.

"Within half an hour the square was clear of any Qaddafi army at all.

"To see where this revolution happened, and all that it has meant to the world, is extraordinary for me," Mrs. Clinton said in a scrum of security guards, journalists and curious passers-by who ambled with her for 10 minutes through the square, which was cleared of the last protesters a week ago by the army.

Peshmerga fighters joined counterparts from the military wing of the PKK — the Kurdistan Workers Partyy, historic rivals of the Kurdish Democratic Party, which most peshmerga are affiliated to — to celebrate in a central square as the city was cleared of IS fighters.