6 sentences with “demonstration”

In the United States, it was brothers Charles and Frank Duryea who could boast of the first proven demonstration of a gasoline-powered vehicle in 1893.

In 1988, during a demonstration, he could no longer contain his anger, and he and others overturned a Chinese vehicle and hacked it to pieces with an axe.

In the Palaeolithic era, the provision of food was a symbol of cooperation; it was a demonstration of solidarity. However, this is only true of men when it comes to hunting.

A direct demonstration of the strength of the themma system of organisation (administrative division of the Byzantine Empire) was that Rome's perennial enemy, the Persians, fell against the Arab invasion of the 7th century, while the Byzantines did not.

My friend's demonstration in New York ruined a roast, but it proved incontrovertibly the existence of a war more secret than those of the CIA: the ultrasound fights between hunter bats and hunted moths, which have all the subtlety of contemporary aerial combat.

Despite the limited practical consequences of some aspects of the space race, it was symbolically important for both sides - it was a highly visible demonstration of scientific superiority, and the first superpower to achieve a particular breakthrough in the space race had thus "won" an important symbolic victory in the eyes of the world. Moreover, since the space race was based on the mastery of rocket technology, the military implications were obvious.