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"We'd been trying to ignite protests before, but now we had our spark," Mr. Ziadeh said.

A senior government official said that former Attorney General Janet Reno had signed off on the decision before she left office nearly two weeks ago, but delayed the announcement for fear it would ignite protests at the Bush inauguration.

At a time when homemade videos have helped ignite protests and revolutions around the world, it is only fitting that they are a potent weapon in New York's biggest street fight: the battle over bike lanes that the Bloomberg administration is carving out all over the city.

Interviews with students and teachers at Peking University, as with experts on China here and abroad, draw a layered portrait of today's students: disinclined to protest, but also lacking the economic grievances that helped ignite protests in 1989; proud of China's achievements and flocking to the Communist Party, but seldom driven by ideology.

Two of those sentenced were co-founders of the April 6th Movement, a mobilizing force of young activists who helped ignite protests in 2011.

While police killings of people of color continue to ignite protests in the United States, the sheer number of human beings gunned down by cops in Brazil is staggering.

The trailer ignited protests around the world.

The case of 30-year-old Veloso, who has two children, ignited protests around the world.

The case of 30-year-old Veloso, who has two children, has ignited protests around the world.

The rule, similar to policies in other places, has kept couples with different needs from eating together and ignited protests.

The invasion ignited protests around the world, including those at Kent State University in Ohio, where national guardsmen killed four students.