Hailers

Occupy Wall Street protesters have been swelled with union activists: there are loud hailers, printed placards and a crowd that's somewhat older than the usual OWS lot. ❋ Unknown (2011)

People used to say rude things about him over loud hailers during street demonstrations so he banned those as well. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hurricane conditions are expected to hit New York in the early hours of Sunday, with the eye of the storm brushing over the city at about 10am EDT.Police patrolled Zone A with loud hailers on Saturday evening, and volunteers knocked on doors in public housing areas with offers of transport, but many residents were refusing to leave. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Police imposed a shutdown of the village yesterday morning, ordering residents to lock their doors and stay inside while armed officers in body armour and helmets patrolled the streets using loud-hailers to try to reassure them. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If not my card would be cancelled, my bank account immobilised, the Banque de France notified, and helicopters would be dispatched to hover outside my apartment window so that men in uniforms could shout at me over their loud hailers and/or airbourne snipers could get me in their sights. ❋ Unknown (2008)

A new viral video on YouTube features a cyclist riding through New York City, high-fiving oblivious taxicab-hailers as he passes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Is it my imagination, or do New York cab drivers pick me and my St. John over other hailers during rush hour? ❋ Unknown (2008)

It blows like a fog through the streets of Beirut these days, creeping down the laneways where policemen – who may or may not work for the forces of law and order – shout their instructions through loud-hailers. ' ❋ Unknown (2007)

It blows like a fog through the streets of Beirut these days, creeping down the laneways where policemen – who may or may not work for the forces of law and order – shout their instructions through loud-hailers. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As their banners and placards get smudged and battered by the rain, and their loud-hailers often distort the shouts and cries they call out, it's not immediately clear - except to regular passers-by, who have had time to study it - why they are there, and it all looks rather messy. ❋ Joanna Bogle (2007)

A block away, in downtown Johannesburg, a trader, who had obviously read the market well, was selling the loud hailers. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They burned down churches as the Church of England was against what they wanted; they vandalised Oxford Street, apparently breaking all the windows in this famous street; they chained themselves to Buckingham Palace as the Royal Family were seen to be against women having the right to vote; they hired out boats, sailed up the Thames and shouted abuse through loud hailers at Parliament as it sat; others refused to pay their tax. ❋ Elizabeth McClung (2006)

"Posters and pamphlets have been distributed to all the wards in the province and there have been loud hailers going around in municipalities," said Mosery. ❋ Unknown (2005)

(Section 134) The use of loud hailers is banned. (section 137) ❋ James (2005)

Stainton said plans were also made to use public address systems and loud hailers to direct people to other gates. ❋ Unknown (2001)

I assessed the other hailers, two corners taken by guys in suits, and I knew I had to buckle down and run into traffic to win this fight against Wall Street's finest. ❋ Partygirl (2000)