Finally, some Egyptian soldiers fought their way through the crowd with batons, Logan said.
Prisoners had makeshift weapons, including broomsticks and batons made of plastic bottles and other materials.
At intervals along the barricaded roads stood phalanxes of police and more militia in riot gear, including batons and shields.
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Dropped batons at the Atlanta Olympics (1996) and Sydney (2000), and the Edmonton World Champs (2001), and disqualification in Beijing.
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It is the courageous nonviolence embodied by Martin Luther King in the face of batons, water canons, dogs, and bullets.
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Officers used batons and tear gas to try to dislodge several hundred people who gathered there as the main demonstration ended.
Police have used batons and pepper spray to break up the demonstrations which are led by Mr Nasheed's Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP).
Each violinist had an infra-red reflector attached to the tip of his bow, and the conductors had them attached to their batons.
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Police were forced to use batons and tear gas to disperse crowds.
He asked for trial dates to be postponed so that experts could be available to give evidence about the use of police batons.
But in Rawalpindi Pakistani security forces fired tear gas and wielded batons to disperse opposition supporters for defying a ban on public gatherings, police sources told CNN.
Police in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka have used batons to disperse protesters during a six-hour strike against a gas exploration deal with the US energy giant ConocoPhillips.
Police used batons to try to push the students apart.
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Mashed, shaped into batons and boiled, or even French fried, celery root can provide a winning accompaniment to a fresh green vegetable or salad and anything roasted or grilled.
Thousands of Liverpool fans failed to get into the ground, despite having tickets, and riot police used tear gas and batons outside the Olympic Stadium to quell disturbances as supporters were turned away.
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At Altcourse prison, a tidy jail in Merseyside run by G4S, the biggest of Britain's contractors, wardens patrol without batons and address prisoners as Mr, a civility that is spreading to the public sector.
Abdus Sattar, an official of the Bangladesh industrial police, said that workers had tried to block a major road leading north from Dhaka but had retreated after police units wielding batons moved to restore order.
While she said that while police officers had in some cases expressed "surprise" that her office had the power to "relieve them of batons, uniforms or vehicles for evidence, " she said she had not experienced significant resistance in her investigations.
Batons, Medal prospects, Jess Ennis prospects.
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The Indian gallery features a Rembrandt Peale portrait (c. 1813) of future U.S. President William Henry Harrison, who defeated Tecumseh at Thames, as well as a buckskin jacket worn by Hillis Hadjo, leader of the Red Sticks (Batons Rouge), who were defeated by another future U.S. president, Andrew Jackson, at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814.
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