Sentence examples for vast protests from inspiring English sources

Brazil has witnessed vast protests against spending for the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.

The news from Spain, with vast protests and talk of secession, suggests that this moment may be approaching fast.

The government crushed the vast protests following the vote, dispatching armed militia and police officers and leaving an estimated 17 people dead and hundreds injured.

Sisi strove to paint the coup as the fulfilment of the popular will, following days of vast protests against Morsi's rule.

It was a victory of sorts for President Lee Myung-bak, whose decision to end a ban on American beef imports prevailed over vast protests and the loss of three cabinet ministers.

The attacks in recent weeks have escalated around Dara'a, in the south, and in Hama, a tense city in central Syria where vast protests gathered earlier this year before security forces retook the city in August.

In the third week of April 1982, Ground Zero organized a vast protest against nuclear war in which as many as a million people participated in about 800 cities and towns.

Ever since June 15 in Tehran I've been asking the most alluring and treacherous of historical questions: "What if?" What if the vast protesting crowd of perhaps three million people had turned from Azadi (Freedom) Square toward the presidential complex?

Even before the new government's first budget was approved, 12,000 Israelis took to the streets Saturday night in a show of anger reminiscent of the vast social protests that rocked the nation in the summer of 2011.

The two sides fought fierce street battles this week after Mr. Saleh refused for a third time to sign a deal to transfer power in the face of vast street protests.

The death toll has approached 100 since fighting began Monday after Yemen's president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, refused for a third time to sign a deal to transfer power in the face of vast street protests.