parade
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Sir Chris Bryant said his decision to ban the Drumcree parade 'was in the best interests of peace'
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
That parade did not happen and, after a series of legal challenges and talks between residents and Orangemen, the secretary of state banned the procession on Friday.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
"You can really feel the warmth in Taiwanese society," said Feng Jing-heng, 70, who was in the crowd watching the military parade and dance performances.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
For a number of years in the 1990s, the Drumcree parade dispute was one of the biggest stories in Northern Ireland - and then, for 28 years, it fell out of the public eye.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
But the enemy agents weren't at the parade.
From Nazi Saboteurs by Samantha Seiple
The Orange Order, the most prominent of the loyal orders associated with Protestants in Northern Ireland, holds thousands of parades every year and the vast majority pass off without incident.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
The exemption is designed to apply to cars used primarily in shows, parades, charitable functions and historical exhibitions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
The ban is also imposed on very small weekly parades from the church in protest, which stop at a police line at a distance from Garvaghy Road.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Alicante has music for lunch, music for dancing, music for parades.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
This was a guerrilla force, and they were soldiers who had won their stripes in the fire of batde, who cared more about fighting and tactics than dress uniforms and parades.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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The players were clearly delighted with their bronze medals, collected on a podium in Miami then proudly paraded for the travelling fans.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Minutes earlier, the players paraded around Azteca Stadium — traditionally an impenetrable fortress — to applaud El Tri fans with tears in their eyes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
Mallard ducks and Canada geese have long made the reflecting pool home and paraded their young’uns through it in the spring and summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
On the balcony of his house in Indonesia, Muhammad Yusuf swayed to blaring music and waved a replica of the World Cup trophy as hundreds paraded past, many decked out in Argentina's colours.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
Carved figures paraded around its edge, screaming or singing, holding weapons or ancient instruments, calling for the storm in the center—roiling clouds and lightning.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
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It was a body set up to resolve parading disputes, not to restart them.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Drumcree was one of Northern Ireland's most serious parading disputes in the mid-1990s.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
But that’s a lot of big ifs stuffed into a trenchcoat, parading around social media as an inevitability.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
The dancers, costumed in their Saturday evening black-and-white vintage best, added to the parading splendor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
She is parading and blushing at the same time.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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