Sentence examples for outbreak of protests from inspiring English sources

ISRAELIS want to rejoice over the outbreak of protests in Egypt's city squares.

Late in the evening Mubārak appeared on state television, addressing the country for the first time since the outbreak of protests.

His troops recently declared success in chasing jihadists from the southern town of Zinjibar, which they had occupied since June (see map).Well before the outbreak of protests eight months ago, Yemen was spiralling into chaos.

Shortly after the outbreak of protests around the region, King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia increased spending on housing, social welfare and education by $10 billion, and gave government workers a 15 percent cost-of-living allowance.

Their efforts to preserve that special status in perpetuity, even after the promised election of a new civilian government, set off the outbreak of protests against military rule last month and the generals' subsequent crackdown.

The lower house of Parliament is Egypt's primarily legislative body, and Field Marshall Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, the top military officer who is now acting as de facto chief executive, has scheduled its first session for Jan . 23 two days before the anniversary of the outbreak of protests that ousted Mr. Mubarak.

Dechen Tsering Berkeley, Calif., March 23 , 2008• To the Editor: This month we have witnessed an outbreak of protest and violence in Tibet and a terrifying crackdown.

Patrick Craven, spokesman for the Congress of South African Trade Unions, said: "When a very similar incident occurred in India recently, there was a massive outbreak of protest and mass demonstrations in the streets; it was a big story around the world.

Here, he says, lies a danger, common to the US and Europe: that if the mainstream left does not convincingly address the tangle of economic issues that underlies this year's great outbreak of protest and unrest, the initiative could easily be seized by the right.

"When a very similar incident occurred in India recently, there was a massive outbreak of protest and mass demonstrations in the streets," Cosatu spokesman Patrick Craven said, AFP news agency reports.

Outbreaks of protest self-immolations followed for decades, from Czechoslovakia to Korea, France to Kurdistan, Iran to Switzerland.