Staged example sentences

Strikes took place all over the country and universities closed down when student bodies staged walkouts, complaining about the lack of civil liberties.The enormous popularity of this shortened version of the game led to the first World Cup being successfully staged in 197 Then in 1977, even as cricket celebrated 100 years of Test matches, the game was changed forever, not by a player or cricket administrator, but by a businessman.Popular demonstrations staged by the Bolsheviks in July 1917 were sternly repressed.Kerry Packer, an Australian television tycoon who saw the moneymaking potential of cricket as a televised sport, signed up fifty-one of the world s leading cricketers against the wishes of the national cricket boards and for about two years staged unofficial Tests and One-Day internationals under the name of World Series Cricket.