A product of the same anti-establishment feeling that has spawned protest parties across the West, UKIP is the first non-toxic party to outflank the Tories on the right.
Since then, Idle No More exploded like an Egyptian protest in Tahrir square and has spawned mass protests, rail and highway blockades, and flash mob dances in malls.
A California judge denied a request by an actress today to remove an anti-Islam film from YouTube that has spawned violent protests across the Muslim world.
Shell's determination to drill there has spawned waves of protests and funding drives by environmentalists who want to protect whales, walruses and polar bears in a vulnerable region that scientists say is changing rapidly due to global warming.
While the portrait generated some criticism, notably from representatives of Tim Hortons, it has spawned more jokes than protests, including from the prime minister's office.
The outside world has proved powerless to halt the killing in Syria, where repression of initially peaceful protests has spawned an armed insurrection by army deserters and others.
The outside world has proved powerless to halt the carnage in Syria, where repression of initially peaceful protests has spawned an armed insurrection by army deserters and others.
Thanks to Occupy Wall Street, and the protests it has spawned, fairness has rarely been such big news.
But the collective memory is short, says Luis Secco, an economist at Estudio Broda, a think-tank: "The discontent among those who, for the second year running, see no improvement in their situation is very great".That frustration has spawned a wave of seemingly spontaneous protests, often taking the form of road-blocks in the depressed interior.
European countries, still embroiled in the eurozone crisis that has spawned continent-wide austerity measures and sparked rancorous protests, fared worst in the poll, with 72percentt saying they felt it was a bad climate for job-hunting.
