| The blockade follows demonstrations and a week-long sit-in and hunger strike at the regional office. |
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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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| The strikers organised a sit-in demonstration and mass rally on July 9, the final day of the strike. |
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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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| Disappointed by this action, Nghien decided to hold a sit-in protest in her own house. |
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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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| During spring break, more than a dozen of them, accompanied by a teacher, staged a sit-in to protest the closure. |
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| The organizers of the protest, who did not have a permit for the sit-in, refused to leave and police began to arrest them in mass. |
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| The main claim of workers during the sit-in that has undergone a complete success is the payment of three months salary arrears. |
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| Outside Rabaa, however, the presence of so many children at the sit-in has caused an uproar. |
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| In fact, as the sit-in has pressed on, the number of children there has seemed to rise. |
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| Clashes with security forces on the outskirts of the sit-in have twice sparked massacres, leaving some 150 Morsi supporters dead. |
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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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| That had exacerbated their already uncertain situation and the long waits for their files to be processed, and had led to their sit-in. |
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| The security forces also arrested a large number of people who came to participate in sit-in. |
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| Protesters occupied a Quicktrip gas station convenience store and staged a sit-in, some sitting outside. |
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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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| Just as we were ready to enter Allen's office to sit-in we learned that he had decided to vote against any more funding for the occupation. |
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| And when the families of the executed announced a sit-in in front of Tehran University, authorities blocked their way. |
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| He is staging a kind of sit-in to protest silently the callousness with which vulnerable refugees are treated the world over. |
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| Pressured by the growing crowds, Security Police decided to release Thich Quang Do after several hours of increasing tension, during which 40 UBCV monks staged a sit-in protest and began a hunger strike inside the station. |
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| It's as if, lacking faith in a difficult present, we're trying to enter and stage a sit-in at our own collective past. |
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| Within a week of the first sit-in at a segregated lunch counter, Walzer headed south to write about the movement for Dissent. |
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| Occasionally, demonstrators would stage a sit-in. |
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| A year later, in April 1996, an indefinite sit-in or dharna was organized to demand that the State Government pass executive orders to provide a limited right to information on local development expenditure. |
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| Opposition members of the Diet staged a sit-in to delay ratification and there was unprecedented popular opposition, with a series of huge strikes and violent demonstrations by workers and students. |
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| Since one year, the IHD organize a sit-in at Diyarbakir to aks for an inquiry about the 17,000 summary and extra-judiciary executions that took place during the 25 past years. |
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| The head of the primary education teachers association was arrested for holding a sit-in at the Prime Minister's office demanding full-time civil servant status instead of the current part-time or temporary status. |
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| Security sources say the children provide a serious logistical challenge to their efforts at dispersing the sit-in. |
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| I want him to reply within two weeks or else I will stage a sit-in demonstration in front of the Election Commission's office, he warned. |
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| On Monday, the Giza Criminal Court postponed the Al-Nahda Square sit-in trial to 1 August. |
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| They tore down some tents of the sit-in and set fire to the others. |
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| After all, some of them had to have skipped class to attend the sit-in. |
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| He said the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief minister has been at the sit-in in Islamabad for the last 40 days completely ignoring the people of his province. |
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| Tonight, the South Korean fencer Lam Shin staged a seventy-minute sit-in after losing, in a controversial judgment, the semi-final of the women's epee contest. |
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| Typically a lunch counter would close when a sit-in began, but after the first few incidents, police began to arrest protestors, and the subsequent trials drew large crowds. |
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| In addition, there are the disgruntled widows of deceased members of the AFL who carried out a sit-in protest in front of the Executive Mansion on 6 January 2006, to highlight their plight. |
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| The member of the college's Communist League was a firebrand who would launch a sit-in or protest march at a moment's notice. |
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| Manifs et sit-in en face du QG du gouvernorat, le gouverneur finit par ceder et presenter sa demission. |
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| A nationwide police sit-in enters its third day as warrant officers in several governorates demonstrate in front of security directorates against a new protest law. |
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| He further said that 40 PTI supporters were arrested yesterday night whereas two boys under the age of 16 were shackled and inhumanely for attending the sit-in. |
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| Upset over what they considered insensitive coverage of minority issues, a group of mostly African American students staged a sit-in, grabbing national headlines. |
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