How To Use May day In A Sentence
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Not only is it blighted by foul conditions but it also bears no relation to the original concept of a May Day celebration.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a warm May day, so we were sitting at a bistro table outside, having biscotti and chai.
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At least five people were injured during a May Day march in Sri Lanka when police fired tear gas.
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Our future plans included attending Saturday's May Day march and leafleting an estate.
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At the first May Day demonstration in Vienna in 1890, 200,000 marchers emerged into the public arena.
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The annual May Day demonstrations got off to a violent start overnight when police clashed with protestors in Berlin and the northern city of Hamburg.
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But barely a week later during May Day celebrations, he said the government would seize land from white farmers who treated their workers badly.
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Puritans in England and the New World called for banning the maypole and May Day festivals.
A Renegade History of the United States
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To do justice to the many conflicting and various unuttered messages that were being sent here, you'd rightly have to look at this the way we used to look at the lineups and hierarchies and seating positions on May Day in Red Square.
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The other chapter, a survey of "Festivals of Revolution," locates "the celebratory May Day, a festive seizure of working-class initiative that encompassed demands for shorter hours, improvement in conditions, and socialist agitation and organization" against the backdrop of the traditional spring calendar of class confrontation.
Happy May Day
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He said: ‘Stan was a great person to be around and a wonderful organiser of our Christmas bazaars and May Day fairs.’
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At her last speech, on May Day, her husband had to hold her up as she spoke to the descamisados.
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Giuliano was gunned down in a shoot-out with carabinieri trying to arrest him for his involvement in the massacre of communists celebrating May Day at Portella della Ginestra in 1947.
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The incident occurred almost exactly two years after a father and his daughter were killed in another west country speedboat accident on the May Day weekend.
Times, Sunday Times
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We have to build a united front of all the diverse social movements and march together on May Day.
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Before enclosures, festivals were vigorously convivial; they were ‘off-licence’ times, drunken, licentious and rude, from midsummer ales to apple-tree wassailing, to May Day's liaisons.
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Great way to start off a May Day holiday! image - committee to unsell the war
Archive 2006-04-01
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Glavin and Leier had their conversation about revitalizing the union movement on May Day, a day to commemorate international working class solidarity.
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Blockley villagers will be holding their traditional May Day celebrations on Monday.
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The President's absence from the May Day parade has fuelled speculation that he is seriously ill.
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May Day has become a venerable institution.
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We strolled along the banks of the beautiful river, gathering flowers and glancing at our "secesh" neighbors on the opposite bank, only a few yards distant; or we lounged in the shade of our tents, enjoying the charms of a lovely May day, while the terrible din of battle on the right, where Hooker's forces were contending, shook the ground beneath us, and we knew that ere the sun set, thousands of our brave comrades must be sacrificed.
Three Years in the Sixth Corps A Concise Narrative of Events in the Army of the Potomac, from 1861 to the Close of the Rebellion, April, 1865
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For the third year running, anti-capitalist youth have teamed up with local unions for May Day demonstrations in downtown Minneapolis.
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In 2001 the Edinburgh May Day Committee was formed to resurrect the annual celebration of working people, and the Edinburgh People's Festival was refounded.
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It was held that one should not dig, bathe, swim or engage in anything in any activity on May Day, which might seem to have magical powers!
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The village atmosphere is kept alive by an annual May Day event and tree and bulb planting schemes.
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At the first May Day demonstration in Vienna in 1890, 200,000 marchers emerged into the public arena.
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This year we get barely a fortnight after Easter before we're all being turfed out of work again for the May Day holiday.
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On May Day hundreds of thousands used to be bussed in to parade through East Berlin.
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May Day 1995 will kick off COSATU's Tenth Anniversary Celebra - tions.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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How did you celebrate May Day this year?
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May Day dawned warm and sunny, and the two veterans nodded at each other over morning coffee.
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Many New Year and May Day ceremonies have virtually died out now.
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Not only is it blighted by foul conditions but it also bears no relation to the original concept of a May Day celebration.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once May Day is over, direct activists are to turn their attentions to a huge arms exhibition at the end of the summer.
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The red flag fluttered over Sheffield town hall on May Day, a reminder of the city's radical past dating back to the Chartists.
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He had overall responsibility for the policing of the May Day riots.
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May Day in Berlin has been marred by "anticapitalist" violence for more than two decades now.
Mayday for Capitalism
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I can't speak for other Londoners, but May Day Riots are rapidly joining the London Marathon as events that I never witness as such, yet whose aftermath always somehow impinges, usually when I'm off in search of debauch.
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In the intervening years, May Day has become ensconced in international workers' movements.
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The next morning there was a last-minute change of plan to avoid arriving back in London while it was awash with May Day demonstrators.
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I can't speak for other Londoners, but May Day Riots are rapidly joining the London Marathon as events that I never witness as such, yet whose aftermath always somehow impinges, usually when I'm off in search of debauch.
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On May Day hundreds of thousands used to be bussed in to parade through East Berlin.
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After a short interregnum, May Day was once again the centre of worldwide protest after the First World War.
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May Day rallies took place around Australia on the May 1-2 weekend.
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The picture was obviously taken for a special occasion - perhaps a trade event or a May Day, when horses were traditionally turned out with ribbons, plumes and polished brasses, as this pair is.
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I believe you all found the May Day holiday delightful and pleasant.
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He said: ‘Stan was a great person to be around and a wonderful organiser of our Christmas bazaars and May Day fairs.’
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I implore the May Day protesters to worry about real problems, rather than just labelling everything as an evil of capitalism.
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On May Day we picked a May Queen and carried her around the school on a throne decorated with yellow mayflowers.
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In fact, as Kwan readies himself for the fight, dubbed May Day Mayhem, he is flat broke.
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The village atmosphere is kept alive by an annual May Day event and tree and bulb planting schemes.
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'hallucinated' Magdalens, conducting grand picnics in that 'charming' climate, and making life a May day, is not the world's mighty Deliverer; and his miracle-mongering demagogue, claiming to be the Son of David in lying genealogies, and the Son of God in blasphemous audacity, is not the world's Teacher of all Truth and Righteousness.
Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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They attended a May Day celebration which turned into a riot.
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Have I properly established how paradisiacal that May day was?
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There will be a May Day event featuring a display of falconry and a performance by morris dancers.
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Not only is it blighted by foul conditions but it also bears no relation to the original concept of a May Day celebration.
Times, Sunday Times
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RAILWAY MAP OF ENGLAND (A PROPHECY) entitled "The May Day of Steam," the writer notes the passing of the old May Day and foreshadows Labour's appropriation of that festival; and a speech is put into the mouth of a working man prophesying the ultimate unmitigated good of invention, though its first operation created great inequality and caused misery to the hand-worker.
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
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There are images of May Day rallies and anti-fascist protests, anti-apartheid protests and peace rallies.
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We shall begin with the fire-festivals of spring, which usually fall on the first Sunday of Lent (Quadragesima or Invocavit), Easter Eve, and May Day.
Chapter 62. The Fire-Festivals of Europe. § 1. The Fire-festivals in general
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In the movie's duller stretches, the viewer may daydream of pulling up in an unmarked van and spiriting the actor away to a better film.
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A small steam tug, the Pinafore, carries me and my household belongings over to the islands, and a pretty sight is the little vessel when she starts out from the old brown wharves and steams away down the beautiful Piscataqua River, with her hurricane deck awave with green leaves and flowers, for all the world like a May Day procession.
An Island Garden
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Festivities at Christmas, Easter, and May Day, at the end of ploughing and the completion of harvest, relieved the monotony of the daily round of labor.