Sentence examples for threats of protests from inspiring English sources

Threats of protests were only one reason for their reluctance.

The organization weathered harsh criticism for its initial decision, made along with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, to stage the marathon before calling it off amid threats of protests.

Hence the demands that the funeral should be privatized by obtaining some form of commercial sponsorship, and hence the threats of protests and demonstrations on the day itself.

An organiser of the event, Margaret Butts, said she hoped the venue location would be kept a secret because of threats of protests by civil libertarian groups.

Sherry Spencer said these were "terrible threats" and said that Gersh and local human rights groups "appeared to seek financial benefit from threats of protests and reputation damage".

"For theaters to succumb to threats of protests and throw out their duty as a forum of expression is a cause for alarm," the group, which is based in Tokyo, said in a statement.

Mr. Rushdie was then to appear by video, but when even that appearance was cancelled after threats of protest from Muslim groups, Mr. Rushdie expressed his frustration in a long television interview with India's NDTV.

But analysts say that the continuing political attacks and threats of protest this time are raising the specter of a potentially explosive showdown fueled by ethnic tensions laid bare again in the vote and longstanding animosity between Mr. Najib and Mr. Anwar.

The Board cancelled the performance in response to threats of protest by anti-Castro activists over Diamantes' performance in a concert in Havana, Cuba days earlier.

The Oxford Union has cancelled an address by the president of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, citing security concerns posed by the threat of protests by Tamil activists.

But now just the threat of protests meant not a single Alabaman politician showed up for this year's re-enactment of Jefferson Davis's swearing-in.