Reasons for some street closures

Usage examples of parades.

Finally to provide legal defense for all unemployed arrested for joining parades, hunger marches, or attending union meetings.

There were parades of the unemployed, demanding bread and work, looting shops.

Cuba lend themselves readily to all sorts of demonstrations and parades, and little significance should be attached to them.

Guardsmen beat miners, arrested them by the hundreds, rode down with their horses parades of women in the streets of Trinidad, the central town in the area.

The gay movement then became a visible presence in the nation, with parades, demonstrations, campaigns for the elimination of state statutes discriminating against homosexuals.

For these Haitians, Florida is the next logical destiny, but there will be no parades for them here, either.

War is not all uniforms and parades and strutting around waving swords.

Sharpe suspected he would hate the peacetime army, with its church parades and pointless drills, its petty jealousies and endless polish, and in the South Essex he saw the peacetime army he did not want.

Other festivals, other parades, other chances for things to be perfect.