Sentence examples for surrounding parliament from inspiring English sources

The vote followed a more significant milestone on Wednesday, when Parliament narrowly approved a package of spending cuts and tax increases, along with the sale of government assets, as protesters battled the police in the streets surrounding Parliament.

I once asked Dr Mohamed el-Beltagy (interviewed in this paper on Wednesday) why people were so wary of the Muslim Brotherhood: "What is it you're planning to do to us when you come to power?" He shrugged, spread out his hands: "As you see, what can we possibly do?" Well, they started by surrounding parliament with militias to beat protesters with belts and sticks.

There was a ring of police cars surrounding parliament house.

Protests in Lisbon were pretty chill during the day, but kicked off at night, when demonstrators started tearing down the barricades surrounding Parliament and hurling bottles and rocks at the police. .

They surrounded Parliament and trapped legislators inside, receiving moral support from the king's wife, Queen Sirikit.

In the week tens of thousands of protesters surrounded parliament, he told the website Alerta Digital: "The current situation is very similar to 1936, but without blood.

Opposition to the Socialist-backed minority government spilled into the streets this week as protesters tried to surround parliament in the capital Sofia and were driven back by riot police.

While the protesters, who gathered after working hours, once shouted slogans at empty government buildings, they are now surrounding the Parliament while it is in session and demanding government attention.

The recent violence on the streets of Athens - and the protestors have been out in force again today and are currently massing in the streets surrounding the parliament building - has reminded investors, especially on the other side of the Atlantic, that voting in a law is not the same as implementing it.

According to CBC, witness Scott Walsh reported seeing a man running with a double-barrelled shotgun jumped over the stone wall that surrounds Parliament Hill.

Steel barriers surrounded the Parliament building to protect it from tens of thousands of demonstrators.