Sentence examples for height of unrest from inspiring English sources

Coming at the height of unrest in Syria, it was the latest in billions of dollars of defense contracts secured by Russian suppliers in a country where Russia maintains a naval base.

A Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1984, at the height of unrest in South Africa's racially segregated townships, Archbishop Tutu said in a statement that he would step down from many of his public duties in order to sip tea with his wife in the afternoons, watch cricket and "travel to visit my children and grandchildren rather than to conferences and conventions and university campuses".

Blakelock, 40, died trying to protect firefighters tackling a blaze at the height of the unrest on the Broadwater Farm estate in north London on 6 October 1985.

Rule by emergency decree was imposed on June 11 , 1986during the height of civil unrest in the country's segregated black townships.

At the height of the unrest Mr Gul made a few noises reminding the government that democracy was not just about the ballot box.

At the height of the unrest, rioters threw snooker balls, lighted flares and fireworks at the police, and tried to topple statues in Westminster Square, across from the Commons.

At the height of the unrest, a seething crowd toppled and smashed a statue of Lenin, the most prominent monument to the Communist leader in Kiev.

Mr. Moussavi does not have a political organization to rally, and during the height of the unrest he attracted a large following more because of whom he opposed — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — than because of what he stood for, political analysts said.

At the height of the unrest on Sunday night, a seething crowd toppled and smashed a statue of Lenin, the most prominent monument to the Communist leader in Kiev.

That was why he confronted Rudi Dutschke, leader of Germany's students, on a trailer in Freiburg at the height of the unrest of 1968 (pictured above): not hiding away like Raymond Aron at the Sorbonne, but vigorously debating, professor with student, as he did all his life.One sharp spat was with Milton Friedman.

"Far from being instigators of violence, Kenya's athletes have been among its victims," Rono writes, adding, "At the height of the unrest, a group of international athletes met in Eldoret and issued a joint statement declaring their desire for peace and disclaiming any involvement whatsoever in the violence".