Sentence examples for civic protest from inspiring English sources

They don't know what to do with civic protest.

Israeli society, as it has shown through civic protest, deserves much better.

This act of civic protest shook the nation, but it did little to prompt action from the state.

And "The Peace Tower" is old-school civic protest, almost quaint -- a genuine, albeit predictable response to what's going on in the world that makes no claims to being anything other than what it is.

Since the near-total destruction of 1945, Germany has pulled off the Wirtschaftswunder, or economic miracle, of the 1950s, weathered protest and terrorism in the 1960s and 1970s while giving birth to what is now Europe's most potent Green party, and in the 1980s witnessed fresh civic protest — this time in East Germany — that felled the Berlin Wall.

In the late 1960s, events including a California oil spill, a chemical fire on the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland and civic protest about napalm and Agent Orange, used in the Vietnam War, underscored her warnings that efforts to control nature threatened man's survival.

But desalination is also drawing fierce criticism and civic protests.

Many were veterans of the Maidan civic protests.

How does mobilization of masses for civic protests differ from helping people take constructive part in policymaking processes?

Although there are tens of thousands of civic protests every year in China, most are small-scale, ineffectual and officially smothered.

Aleppo had been a focal point of the initial civic protests, and was now an epicentre of a rebel push, the scars of which were everywhere.