Sentence examples for instigated protests from inspiring English sources

They instigated protests outside Scientology buildings and "DDoS actions" against their websites, taking them down: "Imagine sitting at a website and manually pressing refresh a few hundred thousand times," Troy says, explaining DDoS attacks.

Executives have also accused politically affiliated national unions of instigating protests against it.

If the local government decides to violate the property rights of business owners, then it might instigate protests and appeals from private investors.

Some in the Iranian government are trying to avoid that debate by accusing the United States and others outside of Iran of instigating protests over the elections.

The KMT's successes were hollow; the CPC had tactically withdrawn from the cities, and instead attacked KMT authorities by instigating protests amongst students and intellectuals in the cities (the KMT responded to these events with heavy-handed repression).

Putin has accused the U.S. State Department of instigating protests in Moscow against his re-election for a third term in March and has taken an anti-American posture that plays well with his core support base of industrial workers and state employees.

It's this minority, not the allegedly spiky-haired masses, who are of note and who could instigate protest.

The protests peaked on 14 November when L'Onda (The Wave), the Italian student group that instigated the protests and now gives its name to the movement against the new laws, "invaded the city of Rome with colors and singing," as Ravaglia, who took part in the march, puts it.

A more cynical view is that the government tolerated or even instigated the protests to give it a pretext.

For intellectuals, drawn from the politicized élites, and for the bloggers and Facebook activists who instigated the protests, the challenge is to translate their revolutionary spirit into a genuine political force and to communicate their ideas to a wider population that remains generally conservative.

However, the chief minister accused the opposition party of instigating the protests.