It was not clear whether the size and intensity of the demonstrations — which seemed to shock even the protesters — would or could be sustained.
Since then, the protests have spread to nearly two dozen countries and forced the State Department to evacuate all but emergency staff members from its embassies in Sudan and Tripoli, Libya, on Saturday, though the intensity of the demonstrations appeared to be subsiding.
Will the country's politicians, themselves surprised by the intensity of the demonstrations roiling Nepal, be able to keep control of popular outrage or to corral the ambitions of the Maoist rebel leaders who have given their blessings to the pro-democracy movement?
Follow them live & on social media http://t.co/Hg5yUrRQV8 — RioGringa (@Riogringa) 20 Jun 13 The size and intensity of the demonstrations has created an instant demand in the global media for English-speaking academics and journalists who can explain the root causes of the protests to the rest of the world.
Emma Campbell was shocked by the intensity of the "pro-life" demonstrations outside Marie Stopes when it first opened in Belfast in 2012.
The protests shook an array of cities over the weekend, with somewhat less intensity than in previous days, and organizers promised a new round of demonstrations in the days ahead.
But the new element in the past couple of years of demonstrations, which have shocked and disturbed their leaders, is the intensity of feeling generated in their own countries.
The debate was just the latest demonstration of the intensity of the election-year fight shaping up over the nation's rising debt and its causes and solutions.
An immediate application stems from the demonstration that the intensity of Raman peaks can be used to measure, at least at the semiquantitative level, the concentration of inhibitor/antibiotic compounds entering bacterial cells.
This year's protests have not reached the intensity of last year's, when some of the demonstrations turned violent.
