disperse a crowd

He adds that earlier police used shields to disperse a crowd of about 150 people.

At the French embassy, guards fired into the air to disperse a crowd.

At one point they used a water cannon to disperse a crowd heading for the mosque.

Before the night was over, other officers repeatedly called for backup to disperse a crowd and, residents said, used pepper spray to do so.

The army said soldiers had used nonlethal weapons to disperse a crowd throwing stones and bricks.

These chemicals disperse a crowd that could be protesting or rioting, or to clear a building.

Dispersing a crowd is one thing.

On 8 June, government troops fired into the air to disperse a crowd of protesters, igniting a violent clash between the groups.

Some reports said one of those people had been killed when the police fired to disperse a crowd, but police officials blamed "unknown miscreants."

Elsewhere in Nicosia there were several arrests and in one incident police fired tear gas to disperse a crowd.

Last week two soldiers were reported killed in a gunfight while trying to disperse a crowd near the Nagorno-Karabakh border.

- Security forces used tear gas and truncheons to disperse a crowd of protesters in the capital today who were demanding that the government step down.

At nightfall, the police fired tear gas to disperse a crowd of 1,000 people chanting anti-Perez slogans, but by late evening the streets seemed quiet.

Two people were arrested when the police used clubs to disperse a crowd of students who were throwing rocks in a downtown square, the witnesses said.

Witnesses said the troops resorted to firing after a baton charge and tear gas shelling failed to disperse a crowd of hundreds of people.

In 1956, he dispatched the National Guard to disperse a crowd attempting to prevent integration at Clinton High School.

Arnold Bennett was hardly exaggerating when he said that in the English-speaking countries the word "poetry" would disperse a crowd quicker than a fire-hose.

A policeman gave evidence saying that he had heard quarrelling in the house and had to disperse a crowd from outside, about half an hour before the attack.

The police used tear gas and batons to disperse a crowd of about 1,000 people, some carrying signs that read: "NATO is for murderers.

Five people were killed when troops and police intervened to arrest the rebels and to disperse a crowd of some 5,000 which had gathered around the radio station.

Mirer, a junior quarterback, and DuBose, a junior linebacker, were arrested as the police dispersed a crowd at the party.

Syrian authorities forcibly dispersed a crowd composed of 200 demonstrators in front of the Syrian Interior Ministry.

High pressure water hoses and police dogs were used by police to disperse a crowd of more than 1,000 African-American protesters in Birmingham, Alabama.

Troops fired into the air on Friday to disperse a crowd trying to attack government offices in the town where the "Arab Spring" uprising began ...

In the port of Dürres on March 29 police again unsuccessfully attempted to disperse a crowd which had gathered in the hope of emigrating.