Sentence examples for economic protest from inspiring English sources

We should not forget, either, that the Arab Spring, such as it was, first erupted in Tunisia precisely as an economic protest.

The blockades are being led by small but well organized leftist groups that have replaced unions as the most important vehicles for economic protest by the unemployed.

At any moment, prosperous or troubled, about ten to fifteen per cent of the population of this country — really, of almost any modern country — will be susceptible to some kind of extreme populist nationalism, populist nationalism being different from other kinds of populism inasmuch as its economic protest is secondary to militarist self-assertion.

With the full spring-break influx of protesters only beginning here, the Starbucks scene amounted to a modest homage by vanguard demonstrators proud of the global economic protest in Seattle last year when Starbucks windows were smashed by vandals in bandanna masks.

At any moment, prosperous or troubled, about ten to fifteen per cent of the population of this country—really, of almost any modern country will be susceptible to some kind of extreme populist nationalism, populist nationalism being different from other kinds of populism inasmuch as its economic protest is secondary to militarist self-assertion.

Dr. Post said today that many members felt the need to register a stronger economic protest because the documents "highlight how hundreds of thousands of dollars have been used to support priests on administrative leave because of allegations, used to cover up these actions, used to try to suppress the documents".

Turabi was re-arrested after the Arab spring uprisings sparked economic protests in Sudan in early 2011.

-- From a Village Voice profile of heroic young New Yorkers at this week's economic protests in Washington.

Kyrgyzstan's government is acutely sensitive to economic protests, which have fueled political unrest in the country in the past.

The editorial said the one bright spot was the social and economic protests in Israel over the summer.

Alexei Malashenko, a Caucasus and Central Asia expert at the Carnegie Centre in Moscow, called the Yerevan demonstrations "ordinary economic protests," but said Armenia's economic situation would likely remain bad.