Sentence examples for citizen protest from inspiring English sources

The ruling had been expected, but Korea is a young democracy, and Koreans have rarely seen such dramatic change occur through the courts, much less through citizen protest.

On television news programs tonight, citizen protest groups camping outside Aum sites in cities across Japan said they still believed that the group was dangerous and vowed to continue their protests.

"I haven't felt this way about an issue since Vietnam," said Eileen Malay, a member of the citizen protest group in the city of Cortland, the county seat about 11 miles west of the two proposed sites.

Victor Homola (NYT) THE AMERICAS BRAZIL: ANTI-VIOLENCE DEMONSTRATIONS Several million people in cities across the country marched in the largest citizen protest against violence in this nation of 175 million, wearing white and organizing silent vigils in an effort to pressure the government to take a tougher stance against both criminal gangs and police brutality.

Mohl and Rose analyze the subsequent urban freeway revolts, when citizen protest groups battled highway builders in San Francisco, Baltimore, Memphis, New Orleans, Washington, DC, and other cities.

The revolutions sweeping the Middle East provide dramatic evidence of the role that technology plays in mobilizing citizen protest and upending seemingly invulnerable authoritarian regimes.

Only U.S. citizen protests can stop a wider war in Central America.

Abu-Assad, who like Suleiman, is an Israeli citizen, protested, resulting in a change to "Palestinian Territories".

The same was true of the village's Communist Party secretary, Xue Chang, who had held office since 1970 before being replaced amid Wukan citizen protests in September.

Mao's days are a distant memory now, and citizen protests, muckraking journalism and open discussion of social problems are accepted parts of Chinese life.

Citizen protests have flared over nearly every state asset up for offer, including ones that have long bled cash — even if shedding them would help Greece's finances.