Sentence examples for met with arrests from inspiring English sources

In a pastoral message issued for Easter, the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference reported that the conflict had reached a critical point at which strikes, boycotts, and demonstrations had been met with arrests, detentions, beatings, and torture.

Criticism was met with arrests.

Those demands were more or less met with arrests and rubber bullets.

Students at Saigon University boycotted classes and rioted, which was met with arrests, imprisonment, and the closure of the campus.

With this increase, more teenage misbehavior is being met with arrest records and court dates as opposed to detention and trips to the principal's office. .

Any activity or demonstration outside of that grassy little spot is met with arrest, which happens often enough without a lot of media or other attention.  .

Enemas, sexual abuse, quasi-necrophilia, sodomy, bestiality (again), incest (again) – all make an appearance, and by the end of the opening two pages, which must rank among the most startling affirmations of omniscience in 20th-century literature, the reader has met with an arresting injunction: "After using this book please wash your hands.

In a country where the push for gay rights has materialized only recently — and in fits and starts often met with violence and arrests — their attempt to marry was a bold, if muted, political statement as much as it was an expression of love.

A bold public campaign led by Pakistan's lawyers and Mr. Sharif, opposed by the Zardari government and met with hundreds of arrests, led to the reinstatement of Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry as chief justice in March, and the lifting of the ban on the Sharif brothers was widely expected to follow.

Even today, within Assad's own Alawite sect, signs of dissent are met only with arrests and intimidation.

Its unexpected success in 2005 was met with additional restrictions and arrests, and the Brotherhood opted to boycott the 2008 local elections.