Sentences with 'demonstrators'
Example sentences and phrases with the word demonstrators and other words derived from it.
• « As in the first French Revolution, the army sided with the crowd of demonstrators, not the king. »
• « A revolutionary crowd gathered and, after panic-stricken soldiers shot and killed forty demonstrators, began to build barricades and prepare to fight back. »
• « After this event, power was divided. The Duma (Russia's representative assembly) appointed a provisional government that enacted important legal reforms but had no power to relieve the Russian army at the front or to provide food for the starving demonstrators. Moreover, the Duma itself represented the interests and beliefs of the educated middle classes, still only a small portion of the Russian population as a whole. »
• « This led to a full-scale invasion by the Soviet army that killed several thousand demonstrators in violent clashes (mainly in the capital, Budapest), followed by the arrest of more than half a million people. »