Example collocations logo

Crowd in sentence

1325 examples of Crowd in a sentence

Yet the Harvard study shows that he is responsible for the deaths of 5,000 times as many black South Africans as the white South African police who fired on the crowd at Sharpeville.
A counterweight to the “peace crowd” may be new migrants from Eastern Europe, for whom cuts in social services would break no promises, and for whom job availability and wage levels are more important.
Of course, the tourists who crowd Cuba’s beaches are not aware of this iron curtain.
In forcing US interest rates higher, such a tax cut would crowd out many other types of domestic investment, which can only serve to slow development of the Internet economy and slow productivity.
And she has brought a fresh anti-capitalist tone to the Front’s rhetoric – always a crowd pleaser in France.
You must be able to draw a listening and cheering crowd to qualify for the elite.
Members of this crowd tend to believe that they have absorbed the great lessons of history.
A counter-demonstration mobilized by pro-China forces drew a smaller crowd.
Likewise, during expansions, higher government spending is more likely to crowd out private spending.
Following this summer’s attacks on Karachi’s international airport, a naval base, and a crowd gathered on the India-Pakistan border to witness a popular display of force by each side’s guards, the Peshawar massacre makes it four.
Here is a word of warning to the hard money crowd: holding an exchange rate at all costs, raising interest rates to defend the situation, playing tough -- is stupid.
From formal debates and informal schmoozing with fellow members of the Davos crowd, one gets a sense of who the American establishment favors to win the next presidential election (Hillary Clinton), predictions for the upcoming referendum in Ireland on the European “simplified” treaty (it will be very close), and French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s international image (not good).
By contrast, the attempt to crowd multilateral resources into Europe was made explicit by eurozone finance ministers’ call in November for IMF resources to be boosted – preferably through debt-generating bilateral loans,– so that it could “cooperate more closely” with the European Financial Stability Facility.
In a society where human worth is measured by individual success, symbolized by celebrity and money, it is easy to feel humiliated by a relative lack of it, of being just another face in the crowd.
Populists find support among those resentful faces in the crowd, people who feel that elites have betrayed them, by taking away their sense of pride in their class, their culture, or their race.
But the phrasing in “Growth in a Time of Debt” also misled European Commissioner Olli Rehn and many others to argue that “when [government] debt reaches 80-90% of GDP, it starts to crowd out activity.”
Today in Poland, indeed, old party hacks are increasingly replaced by a younger crowd who have a taste for both democratic give-and-take and the market economy.
In Eastern Europe where there is a desperate wish to be part of the European Union and the first world, the politics are now easy - Europe has done it, join the crowd, peg the Euro with your currency board.
As in most cases, Byzantine ideological debates such as these lead nowhere, but they do crowd out meaningful policy discussions.
Sharp increases in government employment are usually fiscally unsustainable and even counterproductive, as they can crowd out the private sector.
Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak sent top combatants into a seafaring crowd of aggressive protesters and thought that they would win.
By allowing some individual entities to stand out from the crowd, anti-fragility improves the fate of a population under a challenging situation.
The main impediment in China is local governments, which compete with SMEs for bank loans and inevitably crowd them out from the formal banking sector.
When governments in Africa boldly and intentionally crowd women into decision-making bodies, and entrust them with power, they are directly challenging these outdated assumptions.
But this line of reasoning has a dangerous weakness: It assumes that a legal cartel – one proposed model for regulating supply – would crowd out illegal suppliers by providing ivory to the market at a lower cost.
Why don’t rational and informed investors take more steps to bet heavily on fundamentals and against the enthusiasms of the uninformed crowd?
In that case, the smart money would smooth out the enthusiasms – positive and negative – of the uninformed crowd.
From a crowd favourite, an idol of women and intellectuals, Yeltsin turned into a feeble old man who aroused pity.
The crowd responded with chants of “Croats, go to Croatia” and “This is Serbia.”
The well of the House – supposedly sacrosanct – becomes a stage for opposition MPs to crowd and jostle, waving placards and chanting slogans until the speaker, after several futile attempts to restore order, adjourns in despair.
BackNext