Sentence examples for force of the protests from inspiring English sources

But the crackdown seemed to have slowed the force of the protests, and even some of the government's opponents acknowledged that crowds may have been smaller than on past Fridays.

Young people and college students have been the driving force of the protests this time.

A few hundred picket-line crossers diminished the force of the protest slightly, but the presence of fans outside the stadium before kick-off was enough to dissuade Dinamite from attending.

In an article titled "Colin Kaepernick Will Not Be Silenced," GQ's editors said "he has grown wise to the power of his silence" and that Kaepernick was hoping to reclaim the driving force of the protest movement from President Trump, who the editors said had distorted it into something entirely different.

Incoming Bank of England governor Mark Carney is set to feel the force of the protest when he steps into his new job on 1 July.

Whatever the trigger, the power of the protests to force lasting change has yet to be fully tested.

"It fits in with the pattern of increasing reliance on kettling and the excessive use of force at the protests such as those at the G20".

The approval of a hardline cabinet to underpin Ahmadinejad's second term is the latest sign of the conservative faction consolidating its position after two turbulent months in which the Iranian regime was shaken by the force of opposition protests at the incumbent's re-election.

"It could wipe out a lot of people if a brick is thrown through its window".The government was clearly taken by surprise by the force and effectiveness of the protests.

Now, stung by the force and persistence of the protests, the government appears to be starting a far more ambitious effort to discredit its opponents and re-educate Iran's mostly young and restive population.

Esraa Abdel-Fattah had co-founded the April 6 Youth Movement, which became a driving force of the 2011 street protests.