Sentence examples for escalating protests from inspiring English sources

This reversal of policy follows weeks of steadily escalating protests, capped by this week's violent clashes between protesters and riot police before the Althingi, Iceland's historic parliament.

It was a rare concession to public opinion, coming after months of escalating protests.

The protest, which began at 3 p.m., followed recent remarks by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg that he planned to scale back and amend the practice, amid escalating protests.

The political opposition rejected the call, dismissing the proposed dialogue as an attempt to quell escalating protests against Mr. Saleh's 32 years in office.

The violence on Saturday came as a shock, even after a week of escalating protests by soccer fans, whose allegiance can take on nationalist undertones.

But that objective obviously pales in comparison with the political damage being done to Mr. Erdogan by the escalating protests and the police crackdown.

Are students not escalating protest because they don't know how bad it will be?

Irate workers began taking to the streets in a day of escalating protest rallies causing traffic mayhem as boulevards off the parliament building in central Syntagma square were closed off.

Despite the escalating protest, the city establishment dug in its heals, refusing to compromise and demanding that the strikers return to work or risk losing their jobs.

Civil rights activist Al Sharpton has already claimed that he will escalate protests if next year's winners are all white.

The 300 workers seeking to unionize are taking the opportunity to escalate protests just as the convention hits town.