noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
stage a strike/demonstration/sit-in etc
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Activists staged a protest outside the parliament.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
stage
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We blocked off the main streets of the city centre and staged a sit-in at the Parque Libertad.
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It was unclear how far the students are willing to go, but some suggested staging a sit-in along police cordons.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Workers at the factory organized a sit-in to draw attention to their grievances.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Demonstrators taking part in a sit-in in front of the law courts were beaten up by police.
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Eventually they realized that they looked as if they had come to participate in sit-ins.
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Hugh was at the Milton sit-in , where the workers won a fight to stop compulsory redundancies but lost the war.
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I was there because of sit-ins and marches and riots.
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In Pittsburgh, there were a few sit-ins, invasions of churches, minor civil disobedience.
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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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There was the odd student sit-in and the National Union of Students was beginning to find a voice.