Sentences with phrase «erupted in chants»

As the Council began to vote on the mayor's proposals to rezone the city to require developers to set aside a proportion of all new apartments for below - market tenants, opponents of the plan packed into the balcony seats erupted in chants.

Protesters in the ornate Senate hearing room, who disrupted the proceedings more than a dozen times during the day, erupted in chants of «Sessions is a racist!»

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While tenant advocates reportedly erupted in cheers and chanting following the vote at the Great Hall at Cooper Union in Manhattan, landlords were less pleased.

The largest anti-government protests since the Green Movement erupted in 2009 began last month in the city of Mashhad and spread throughout the country, with demonstrators chanting «death to the dictator,» «death to Hezbollah,» and «death to the Islamic Republic.»