Sentence examples for the protest ground from inspiring English sources
Hazare was expected to go to the protest ground on Thursday.
As the protest ground on, Hendrik Hertzberg at The New Yorker suggested that the movement needed to quit fooling around with camp-outs and get down to business in more practical ways.
Air traffic controllers and civil aviation staff members joined the protest, grounding all flights to and from Athens and leaving hundreds of travelers stranded at the capital's international airport.
3 15 p.m. Fighting over flags: The first scuffles of the day break out when a small group of men attempt to march through the protest grounds carrying a Chinese flag.
Police encroachments on the protest grounds appeared likely to continue in coming days, but it remained unclear how far local police would be willing to go in clearing the most dedicated holdouts at the occupation sites.
Soapbox speakers abound, but during the weekends the main protest grounds in the Admiralty District resemble an exceedingly well-organized music festival.
Sheila Dikshit, the chief minister of Delhi, arrived at the Jantar Mantar protest grounds in the early afternoon, and was booed, heckled and jostled by the crowd, even as the diminutive 74-year-old was surrounded by a police escort.
The protest was grounded in fears that if Saudis, their closest kin in the Gulf, could be reduced to that status of a maid, so could Qataris, pampered by a cradle-to-grave state.
Tuesday's actions weren't aimed at retaking the main Mong Kok protest grounds on Nathan Road, but rather at shrinking the buffer of blocked off streets surrounding it.
Mong Kok's protest grounds are the grungy counterpoint to the more exuberant and artistic atmosphere at the city's main protest site in Admiralty.
The library had been my protest grounds, my way of breaking from my working-class background in Hoboken, where education was secondary, to force my way into a world that treasured the Sewanee Review (the head librarian introduced me to it) and other literary journals.
