1.   As crowds swelled, police fired tear gas and clubbed and kicked demonstrators attempting to disrupt the meeting, witnesses said.

2.   A reporter was threatened with arrest for merely approaching a member of the group and accused of disrupting the meeting by sitting in a parking lot off the property.

3.   Demonstrators are using the Internet to organize protests, publicize their causes and explain why they want to disrupt the meeting.

4.   For the first time, a city official is pressing battery charges against members of an AIDS dissident group that for years has screamed obscenities and disrupted public meetings.

5.   In fairness, HP did warn shareholders that it would not seat latecomers, so as not to disrupt the meeting.

6.   In the end, organizers failed to shut down or substantially disrupt the meeting of world economic leaders.

7.   In Washington, U.S. officials defended Israel and blamed Hezbollah for using violence to disrupt the meeting in Naqoura.

8.   In Washington, U.S. officials defended Israel and blamed Hezbollah for using violence to disrupt the meeting in Naqura.

9.   Jackson, a possible presidential candidate, has vowed to disrupt the meeting if a vote against affirmative action transpires.

10.   Joy said that Oliver disrupted the meeting after the ranchers had asked that all Forest Service personnel leave.