He found a major ally in the Metro Industrial Areas Foundation, a network of churches and community groups that brought hundreds of people to City Hall to hold a demonstration supporting the bill.

But in some places, only a handful of students attended, and in others, demonstrations supporting the Bush Administration drew an equal or greater number of protestors.

Such was the origin of the saint-like statuettes of Pinochet and the posters of "The Immortal" so widely seen at demonstrations supporting him after his arrest in London.

Ordinary Malaysians should be free to conduct orderly demonstrations supporting (or opposing) him, not chased through the streets and arrested.

A pro-democracy demonstration supporting Megawati Sukarnoputri in Indonesia is broken up by riot police.

He has also lent his support to the police, for example, in helping break up a peaceful demonstration supporting the Kléber Peace Accords on 25 March 2004.

Large daily demonstrations supporting Viktor Yushchenko followed.

The wife of a prominent imprisoned dissident applied to the Chinese Government today for permission to conduct a demonstration supporting her husband's demands for better treatment.

Mr President, last week Poland saw a great many peaceful demonstrations supporting freedom of opinion, the rights of minorities and tolerance.