Sentence examples for has been convulsed from inspiring English sources

Since Mr Thaksin's ousting, Thailand has been convulsed by political fighting.

Northern Ireland has been convulsed by violence for the past two weeks.

This capital has been convulsed by government employees sowing disorder in order to repeal an election.

Even as the private world has eclipsed public markets, finance has been convulsed by a computer-enhanced frenzy of creativity.

In the past week, Greece has been convulsed with riots as residents reacted with fury to its harsh austerity package.

SINCE the governor of Illinois imposed a moratorium on executions in his state in January, America has been convulsed by a debate about the death penalty.

The mayor's leave comes as Baltimore has been convulsing under a surge of violence that officials, including Pugh, have struggled to address.

Mr. Mubarak's release from prison to a much milder form of incarceration injects a potentially volatile new element into the political crisis that has been convulsing the country in the six weeks since the military ousted the man who replaced Mr. Mubarak, the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected president.

Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories have been convulsed by a wave of escalating violence.

Cities (and suburbs) have been convulsed by protests, riots or terrorism; fears of radical Islam have mounted.

Sporadic looting continued in black townships to the south that have been convulsed in recent days by violence and arson.