A dozen local residents staged protests in opposition.

If local residents stage a protest outside the jail, as they have done in months past, she vowed, she will be there.

This spring, urban residents staged repeated protests against Japan.

In some cases residents staged protests at open meetings in opposition to extending union contracts.

In 1964, residents of Harlem staged two school boycotts to call attention to the problem.

Local residents staged a large protest the next day, and were machine-gunned by Nationalist troops.

Last Thursday, when the new sanctuary was announced, several hundred angry residents staged a protest at the ministry, the local press reported.

The rebels and local residents had also staged demonstrations before the meeting to press their demands.

Students and Kurdish residents of the suburb had staged sit-ins to protest events in the north, human rights activists said.

Local residents who heard about the incident staged a demonstration at the hospital that quickly turned violent.