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  • noun Plural form of loudhailer.

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Examples

  • Until Tuesday evening there had been no reports of major new clashes after the army was deployed in the most restive towns, schools and universities were shut indefinitely and police with loudhailers ordered people in at least one town not to gather in the streets.

    Twenty-three die in clashes between Tunisia jobs protesters and police 2011

  • He said commanders in the field would use loudhailers with a range of 1 km half a mile to issue orders in Arabic, and would try to converse with protest leaders by phone.

    Israel vows "tolerance" for Palestinian protests Reuters 2011

  • He said commanders in the field would use loudhailers with a range of 1 km half a mile to issue orders in Arabic, and would try to converse with protest leaders by phone.

    Israel vows "tolerance" for Palestinian protests Reuters 2011

  • In self-defense, according to US government and media: According to witnesses and photographs from the scene of the worst incident, an Israeli missile incinerated a car and a small truck full of families leaving their Lebanese border village of Marwaheen near Tyre after the Israeli army used loudhailers to tell residents they had just hours to go.

    Monday, July 31, 2006 As'ad 2006

  • The 20th century, replete with revolutions and coups, the invasions of the Presidential palace, the public hanging of Presidents, the army tanks on city roads, blockades of burning tyres, the blurry echoing voices from loudhailers and electric speakers at public rallies, smoke, teargas in the air, peeling walls vandalized with the stoic imprint of Che's face - each image has been entered into the public memory of the indigenous Quechua underclass.

    justinker Diary Entry justinker 2006

  • It seemed ages, this time, before the floodlights poured onto the terrace and pool, until the swarm of navy-blue uniforms erupted from the bushes with sirens and loudhailers and shouts and meaningful guns.

    Second Wind Francis, Dick 1999

  • Sactwu organisers used loudhailers to issue instructions to workers.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Emergency services with loudhailers patrolled the threatened areas throughout the night in case the river again burst its banks.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • "We will have fleets of minibuses with loudhailers taking local leaders of different parties to neutral venues where they will be given a chance to speak to residents and where voter education can take place."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Other suggested improvements are more signs and loudhailers to direct ticket holders to correct entry gates, a greater number of ushers and addtional lighting in public areas outside the stadium.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

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