Budapest is hardly the only European capital to be convulsed by protest at the moment.
The country has been convulsed by huge street protests five times since 2006 – most notoriously the 2008 anti-Thaksin yellowshirt demonstrations, which culminated in the closure of Bangkok's airports, and the 2010 pro-Thaksin redshirt protests that were violently suppressed by the army – with no resolution in sight.
More recently, France was convulsed by a series of murders over nine days last March including three French soldiers of north African descent killed in two separate shootings, and a rabbi, his two young sons and a third child in an attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse.
Her three marriages were convulsed by money troubles and her psychological instability.
Government forces sought to reimpose an iron grip on Tehran and other cities yesterday, a day after Iran was convulsed by violence which left at least eight dead and the Islamic regime facing a crisis of authority.
For eight days, France has been convulsed by targeted blockades of streets and motorways causing huge traffic jams, but not from the usual suspects: lorry drivers, farmers or students.
See articleParis was convulsed by several days of rioting in the suburbs after two North Africans died, allegedly while fleeing police.
Consider the 1790's, when a raw republic was convulsed by foreign turmoil and the president's cabinet was polarized around two secretaries.
The whole island is convulsed by the superhuman efforts required for the zafra -- the Ten Million Ton sugar cane harvest, which Castro hopes will free Cuba from dependence on the Soviets.
But now that Libya is convulsed by revolution, Gaddafi seems to have used up all his nine lives.
