Just before the plane took off, the stewardess went through the usual demonstration of the use of the emergency masks, and when she had finished, she asked for questions from the passengers.
While devoid of the usual demonstration glitches and blue screens of death that sometimes accompany keynote addresses from Bill Gates, Sunday's Consumer Electronics Show kick-off was not without disappointments.
Instead of the usual demonstrations, it could instruct, say, 30,000 to turn up at Drumcree, with another 20,000 to march on some sensitive area of Belfast.
He complains about "the usual demonstrations by the usual people" outside the courtroom, and expresses frustration at what he saw his inability to control contemptible reports in the media.
4. Ludlow Food Festival: 7-9 September foodfestival.co.uk The oldest and most venerable food festival around has everyone, from army cooks to local big-name Michelin-starred chefs. 5. South Holland Food Festival, Lincolnshire: 11-12 August food-festival.net Set in the grounds of the Ayscough- fee Hall Museum, this features all the usual demonstrations plus children's cooking competitions.
The sources also emphasised that this was a contingency measure and that, at present, the parade organisers still intend to go ahead with their usual Twelfth demonstration, along their normal route.
When we headed out into central London today we expected those gathered to protest tuition rises and the cutting of university funding to fall back on the usual student demonstration routine of sitting around waiting for other people to do something violent.
Amid the usual noisy demonstrations from anti-globalisation protesters, the annual G8 summit met in Heiligendamm, northern Germany.
There were the usual extreme-sports demonstrations, too: skateboarders and bicyclists and roller-skaters.
A Herald correspondent who visited likely quarters of the city to see the usual rows and demonstrations, wandered far and long, but saw none.
Prayer and preaching, and not awkward moments of silence, are the usual activities of demonstrations like that which attracted French men and women and the people of many other nationalities.
