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Soheil1 Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

Flash

Hi
"About 50 antigovernment demonstrators were arrested Friday evening in Baku after staging a flash rally in the city center,"

What's a 'flash rally'?

Thanks in advance!
  

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Here in the United States, we are having trouble with flash mobs. For example, 100 persons suddenly appear (like a flash) in a store. They steal much merchandise.

— Anonymous

  • Here in the United States, we are having trouble with flash mobs.
  • For example, 100 persons suddenly appear (like a flash) in a store.
  • They steal much merchandise.
  • By the time the police arrive, the bad people are already gone.
  • Thus, I assume that a flash rally/demonstration is one that the police did not expect.
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Here in the United States, we are having trouble with flash mobs.  For example, 100 persons suddenly appear (like a flash) in a store. They steal much merchandise.  By the time the police arrive, the bad people are already gone.

Thus, I assume that a flash rally/demonstration is one that the police did not expect.  In many countries, if you want to have a political rally, you have to get
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