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Definition of Counterdemonstration
1. Noun. A demonstration held in opposition to another demonstration. "Supporters of the president organized a counterdemonstration in his support"
Definition of Counterdemonstration
1. Noun. A demonstration in opposition to another demonstration ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Counterdemonstration
Literary usage of Counterdemonstration
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Treaty of Peace with Germany by Germany (1918- ), Germany (1918- ) Treaties, etc. 1918-, Allied and Associated Powers (1914-1920), United States Congress Senate, Germany, etc. 1918 Treaties, June 28 Treaty with Germany, 1919 (1919)
"The Polish students at the invitation of the president of the universitv got up
a counterdemonstration. Revolver shots were fired. ..."
2. The History of the United States of America by Richard Hildreth (1880)
"Some of the more violent of the Boston Democrats, as a counterdemonstration,
paraded the streets with an effigy of Jay, which they persisted in burning. ..."
3. The New York Times Current History (1919)
"While the operations referred to above were in progress the 18th Turkish Army
Corps on the Tigris undertook a counterdemonstration against our troops on ..."
4. Community-based Interventions For Smokers: The Commit Field Experience by Beti Thompson, David M. Burns, William R. Lynn, Donald Shopland (2004)
"By the 3rd year, it was community members who, learning of the smokers' rights
meeting described below, organized the counterdemonstration and contacted the ..."
5. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1916)
"Caucasus by means of a counterdemonstration at some other point. The operations
at the Dardanelles were undertaken with a double object—on the one hand, ..."
6. A Year of Revolution: From a Journal Kept in Paris in 1848 by Constantine Henry Phipps Normanby (1857)
"... partly with the professed intention of making a counterdemonstration to that
of yesterday, and of demanding the adjournment of the elections, ..."
7. Regional Peacekeepers: The Paradox of Russian Peacekeeping by John Mackinlay, Peter Cross (2003)
"As a consequence anti-communist demonstrators began the siege of parliament in
late March 1992, followed by a counterdemonstration organized by the ..."
8. Tomorrow's Women by Helen M. Wilkinson, Melanie Howard (1997)
"... an army of ‘femocrats' gaining ground in government and the quangos, the first
major counterdemonstration by women against a men's movement march, ..."
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