public demonstration

collocation in English

meaningsofpublicanddemonstration

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public
adjective
uk
/ˈpʌb.lɪk/us
/ˈpʌb.lɪk/
relating to or involving people in general, rather than being limited to a particular group ...
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demonstration
noun
uk
/ˌdem.ənˈstreɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌdem.ənˈstreɪ.ʃən/
the act of showing someone how to do something, or how ...
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(Definition ofpublicanddemonstrationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Initially it was nothing more than apublicdemonstrationor strike.
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Even under the democratic regime, corruption by high-ranking bureaucrats and politicians remained the top of public concern, while political participation through mass rallying andpublicdemonstrationcontinued.
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There have recently been a number of cases in whichpublicdemonstrationhas led to unfortunate results.
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They are for the public record and forpublicdemonstration.
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Such a spontaneouspublicdemonstrationof support would not require the six or seven-day rule.
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Would the people in the gallery please refrain from anypublicdemonstration.
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There is already close contact at technical level, and consideration is also being given to proceeding to a jointly financedpublicdemonstrationof developed examples.
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Here is one of the few subjects on which there has not beenpublicdemonstrationin the last few years.
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He then indicated that consideration was being given to a jointly financedpublicdemonstrationof developed examples.
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The officer took the sample from apublicdemonstrationwhich he attended and at which this particular firework caused a near-accident.
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This is shown by the fact that a tremendous amount ofpublicdemonstrationis going on at the present time.
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Even now, when there is any activity involving apublicdemonstration, these banners are brought out.
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Say that a newspaper gets information that the police intend to use water cannon or gas in handling a seriouspublicdemonstration.
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We do not have in our law a formulation of the right of public protest or the right ofpublicdemonstration.
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Apparent insolvency is a concept well understood in the courts and is an objective andpublicdemonstrationof the debtor's financial difficulties.
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Almost daily that boy was subjected to apublicdemonstrationof brutality.
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The draconian cuts to this year's revenue and capital budgets aroused enormous public anger and led to the largestpublicdemonstrationthe town had ever seen.
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They asked my influence and assistance in making a greatpublicdemonstrationin respect of the position in which they find themselves at the present moment.
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The police knew him, and knew where he was to be found, and could have arrested him at a time when passions were not excited, at apublicdemonstration.
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Modern democracy in this country, if it is successfully functioning, depends more on the unfettered right of public meeting andpublicdemonstrationthan upon any other matter.
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