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Placards in sentence

27 examples of Placards in a sentence

But in the desert, there are no gatekeepers and no placards explaining the art, just natural curiosity.
He threatened to shoot me once when I played in the garden as a kid, and many weekends, shaven-headed National Front activists arrived at his house and emerged with scores of placards screaming that they wanted us to go back home.
The children's use of even mild profanity would never be permitted now in a "family film," and the wonderful scene at the end would certainly send the Thought Police running for their placards and boycotts.
Consider the contrast with Libya, where one of the outcomes of US intervention was tens of thousands of Libyans marching in the streets with placards declaring their support of the US and their outrage and sorrow at the murder of the US ambassador.
Armed with banners and placards and a permit to demonstrate, street protesters, having learned that their homes were to be razed for redevelopment, agitated for and eventually secured substantially more compensation than the local government initially offered.
Other Chinese fans brandished placards with the number “300,000” written on it, a reference to the number of Chinese murdered by the Japanese army in 1937.
Outside the hospital in Chicago in October, protesters held placards with messages such as “Educate, Don’t Operate” and “Our ‘extreme’ position: first do no harm.”
People turn on their televisions and watch in disbelief as their elected representatives shout slogans, wave placards, scream abuse, and provoke adjournments – indeed, do almost anything but what they were elected to do.
Protest placards could be seen all over the country: “No!Prime Minister, it is not all right.”
Perhaps the government believed that mass protests – with placards denouncing the EU as a fig leaf for revived German domination of Europe – would strengthen its hand.
No sooner had a newly-elected member taken his oath than a number of MPs from the Bahujan Samaj Party, which rules India’s largest state, Uttar Pradesh, stormed into the well of the House, shouting slogans and waving placards in protest against the government’s land-acquisition policies.
While things have not yet gone so far in the national legislature, the code of conduct that is imparted to all newly-elected MPs – including injunctions against speaking out of turn, shouting slogans, waving placards, and marching into the well of the House – is routinely honored in the breach.
The code of conduct that is imparted to all newly-elected MPs – including injunctions against speaking out of turn, shouting slogans, waving placards, and marching into the well of the house – has been completely ignored.
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.
But if stopping global warming were this easy, I – and everybody I know – would be painting placards for the next round of direct action.
Posters and placards of soldiers and tanks – not to mention reminders of the military prowess of three generations of the Kim dynasty (although only Kim Il-sung, the current leader’s grandfather, had military experience) – adorn streets, schools, and apartment buildings.
The floats bore all the crowns he had won, and he arranged for placards to announce the names of everyone he had defeated.
Many of these areas traditionally lean Republican, and one would find no shortage of signs and placards expressing that allegiance.
But, meanwhile, the hewers could not stand with folded arms, and placards announced that the Company would put up new workings to auction.
In the evening they returned together to the pit to take note of the placards.
Abominable stories were circulating; it was said that written placards had been set up threatening to rip open the bellies of the bourgeois.
" In one morning the ten thousand colliers passed before these placards.
They went back towards the Voreux slowly, and he added, after a few paces:"Have you seen the new placards?"
He laughed at everything; the placards promised pardon and that was enough.
He took them all, without remark, keeping to the promise of the placards.
He had petitioned the bishop for an edict which expressly forbade the Bohemian women to come and dance and beat their tambourines on the place of the Parvis; and for about the same length of time, he had been ransacking the mouldy placards of the officialty, in order to collect the cases of sorcerers and witches condemned to fire or the rope, for complicity in crimes with rams, sows, or goats.
They had read the placards, they wished to see what the placards had announced, and to make their choice beforehand.