How To Use Sit-in In A Sentence
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Several thousand students staged sit-ins and protest marches.
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He was also dubbed a sulker for staging a sit-in following a defeat at Birmingham two and a half years ago, while he quit Chelsea in 2006 with the club accusing him of threatening to score an own goal if he was not allowed to leave, something he vehemently denied.
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Battling granny Dot Kelly, from Farnworth, today said that British Coal tried to ‘starve her out’ of her sit-in 1,800 ft. below ground at closure threatened Parkside pit.
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Several thousand supporters of a Pakistani party led by former cricket star Imran Khan were staging a sit-in Sunday on the NATO supply route near the northwestern city of Peshawar.
Pakistanis, Angered by US Drone Strikes, Block NATO Supply Route
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It said that the demonstrations, sit-ins and hunger strikes have the result of disrupting social stability.
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Demonstrations and dharnas (sit-in protests) were held in all state capitals.
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I arrived at the Exam Schools this morning to find that all lectures had been cancelled because of a derisible sit-in protest.
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It's very apparent that there will be no security during the coming elections," said Mahmoud Fathy, a candidate from the Salafi Fadila Party, which supports the protesters but opposed the idea of a long-term sit-in.
The Seattle Times
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And leading secularist Mohamed ElBaradei, the former UN nuclear watchdog chief turned dissident and presidential candidate, condemned what he called a "savage" attempt to disperse the sit-in.
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Traditional radical actions like sit-ins, mass protest, even riots are belittled as ‘spectacles with radium half-lives’.
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TUNIS - At the entrance to the warren-like casbah here, the 1,000-plus young Tunisians staging a sit-in are worried.
Tunisia, site of the first Arab revolt, seeks a way forward
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This was a time of rallies, demonstrations, sit-ins, walkouts, and protests of every kind, and the music reflected the spirit of the time.
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In effect, their sit-in was a Hanford Out thing - clearly something which, if he was to retain authority, he had to resist.
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University students continue to organise stoppages, marches, hunger strikes, occupations and sit-ins in the major cities.
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The campaigners held a sit-in outside the Supreme Court.
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A man is threatening to stage a sit-in at a hospital until he is given an operation to end nine months of agony.
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Television cameras covered the marches, boycotts, sit-ins and when demonstrators were confronted by Police.
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Number 1 was the uprising that toppled Ben Ali and forced him to flee and number 2 was the sit-in that toppled the first caretaker government a month later.
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There were demonstrations, sit-ins and clashes with the troops who occupied the campus.
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Several top managers began joking that they should hold a sit-in in Mr. Schwartz's 42nd-floor office until he agreed to unseat Mr. Cayne as CEO.
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A few weeks later nurses held a number of protest gatherings and sit-ins.
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The blockade follows demonstrations and a week-long sit-in and hunger strike at the regional office.
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The riders' response was one of anger at their treatment - and there were roadside sit-ins and go-slows before Paris was reached by a relieved peloton.
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The country has enough problems on its hands right now and we cannot allow strikes and sit-ins at this point.
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It was only when tempers broke loose and they were bodily removed that the sit-in ended.
PASSION AND ILLUSION
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The strikers organised a sit-in demonstration and mass rally on July 9, the final day of the strike.
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The endless demos, petitions, teach-ins, sit-ins, and conferences meld together into one prototypical news story, complete with oversized photos.
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Inside the facility, activists staged a sit-in to protest against the expulsion of members of an environmental group they say had been accredited but denied entry.
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Then there was a gigantic accounting gimmick -- a shift from pay-as-you-go bookkeeping to something known as "accrual" accounting in the government's pension-guarantee and deposit-insurance funds.
Decoding Bush
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Students staged a sit-in in the university offices as part of their protest campaign.
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Police and protesters clashed for control of downtown Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday, after security forces tried to stop activists from staging a long-term sit-in in the symbolic site.
The Seattle Times
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Many of the movement's standard methods of protest, like boycotts and sit-ins, were aimed at private businesses, not the state.
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The PCO owners of Kashmir staged a number of protest marches and dharnas [sit-ins] here but got nothing except a some coverage in the Kashmir print and electronic media.
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After all, some of them had to have skipped class to attend the sit-in.
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What links Carnaby Street boutiques with the Hornsey student sit-in of May '68?
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The sit-in was therefore rife with just the sorts of contradictions which communists identified with proletarian womanhood, and women became obvious and crucial actors in its realization.
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The sit-in began as a show of solidarity with similar movements that have emerged at dozens of American colleges.
Times, Sunday Times
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Students staged a sit-in in the university offices as part of their protest campaign.
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Rallies, protests, sit-ins, and marches have today been held in the town centre.
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Her abrupt removal from the campus sparked student sit-ins and early morning pickets in front of the school.
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After the lunch counter at the largest department store in Atlanta was desegregated, sit-in organizers were dismayed that the first black people to eat there honored the occasion by dressing in their finest clothes, including fur coats.
A Renegade History of the United States
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While a student at Hornsey he took part in sit-ins and demonstrations before becoming disillusioned with student politics.
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Several thousand students staged sit-ins and protest marches.
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In communities across the province, people will visit constituency offices to stage sit-ins or protest outside.
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The teachers threatened to stage a sit-in outside the provincial governor's house if the problem was not resolved.
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Southern police responded to sit-ins and civil rights marches with fire hoses, tear gas, beatings, and arrests.
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We expect university campuses to be occupied, and thousands of schoolchildren have pledged to stage sit-ins or demand debates.
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There have been marches, protests, and sit-ins that have been put down by the police with force.
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It was the culmination of years of boycotts and demonstrations, of freedom rides and sit-ins, of protest and struggle, of sacrifice and suffering.
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Three of them are women and one of them a long-haired boy in a windcheater, and they've gone right into the centre of the pitch amongst the players, and they are now enacting the first sit-in of this tour.
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Students staged a sit-in in the university offices as part of their protest campaign.
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Witnesses said the violence began when riot police dismantled a small tent camp set up to commemorate protesters killed in the uprising and attacked around 200 peaceful demonstrators who had camped out in the square overnight in an attempt to restart a long-term sit-in there.
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CAIRO - Thousands of police clashed with protesters for control of downtown Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday after security forces tried to stop activists from staging a long-term sit-in there.
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Will they use Facebook to organize a 20,000-person rally for a carbon tax, or call a sit-in on one of our dwindling glaciers?
Craig and Marc Kielburger: Government Transparency 2.0
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About 3,000 striking workers launched a sit-in hunger protest on July 2, outside the Health Ministry.
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Witnesses said the clashes began when riot police dismantled a small tent camp set up to commemorate the hundreds of protesters killed in the uprising and attacked around 200 peaceful demonstrators who had camped in the square overnight in an attempt to restart a long-term sit-in there.
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She wanted to preserve the brazen fighting spirit the students had exhibited in their sit-in protests.
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Southern police responded to sit-ins and civil rights marches with fire hoses, tear gas, beatings, and arrests.
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Separately, Xinhua reported that three American antiabortionist activists staged a sit-in and shouted slogans outside China's National Museum, near Tiananmen, Wednesday afternoon.
Torch Arrives in Beijing
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Thousands of police clashed with protesters for control of downtown Cairo's Tahrir Square on Saturday after security forces tried to stop activists from staging a long-term sit-in there, killing one person and injuring more than 600 people.
CBC | Top Stories News
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Students staged a sit-in in the university offices as part of their protest campaign.
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Their protest language was manifested in the forms of marches, sit-ins, freedom rides, and boycotts.
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Using an account of the courageous coffee bar sit-in in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960, he argued that such activism was based on the strength of intimate friendships and shared experience, and directed by hierarchical power, could never have arisen from the "weak ties" and "horizontal" associations that characterise the campaigning of online "friends" and "followers".
Twitter and Facebook cannot change the real world, says Malcolm Gladwell
