Sentence examples for crackdown on protestors from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, the crackdown on protestors may undermine Turkey's chances of joining the E.U.

Indeed, the sell-off in Turkey's financial markets began a week or so before the police crackdown on protestors in Taksim Square on May 31.

Since then, Washington has said nothing about the government crackdown on protestors who have turned out by the thousands to denounce the electoral fraud.

Hu is a former university lecturer who became a democracy activist following the military crackdown on protestors in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

Moreover, the flawed 2008 presidential elections, and subsequent crackdown on protestors (during which ten people died and 450 were injured) mean the government has lots more to do to restore its credibility.

Europeans called a vote on a resolution condemning Syria for its bloody crackdown on protestors that elicited vetoes from Russia and China.

In early November, just before the Arab League voted to suspend Syria from membership for its bloody crackdown on democracy protestors, the Arab group at Unesco filled one of the two seats it is allotted on these two committees with a Syrian representative.

The American government has condemned the crackdown on street protestors, urging the Ugandan government to respect civil liberties.

Searching for the Chinese phrase "Tiananmen Square massacre" produces a dissident's delight of links to videos and foreign websites about the 1989 crackdown on democracy protestors.

Last year China's economic growth fell to 7.4% – the lowest level since 1990, when the country was facing international sanctions in the wake of the military crackdown on Tiananmen protestors.

Photo sharing site Flickr, run by Yahoo!, is also suddenly unavailable in China so there will be no pictures of the army crackdown on peaceful protestors in Chinese streets two decades ago.