Sentence examples for popular upheaval from inspiring English sources

Despite romantic delusions of popular upheaval against a disliked leader, a sounder method of keeping leaders accountable already exists: voting.

The Balai Citoyen movement, initiated by Burkina Faso's youth, was an important element in last year's 30 October popular upheaval which toppled Compaoré.

But despite the bloodshed, which promised to unleash another day of unrest as the dead are buried Saturday, the scale of the protests, so far, seemed to fall short of the popular upheaval of revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia.

For the US, the popular upheaval lays bare the fallacy of an approach that relies on Arab leaders who mimic the west's deeds and parrot its words, and that only succeeds in discrediting the regimes without helping Washington.

The emergence of the Catholic barrister Daniel O'Connell as the founding father and popular champion of Catholic democracy, along with the dramatic manner in which he was elected to a parliamentary seat for County Clare (1828), forced the grudging concession of the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829 by a government fearful of popular upheaval.

If the government had heeded calls for reform earlier, he said, it might have avoided today's popular upheaval.

As popular upheavals across the Middle East grant Islamist parties more influence, both Mr. Abbas and the king are being pressed to soften their policies toward Hamas.

The European revolutions of 1848, a series of popular upheavals that were the most widespread revolutionary wave in European history, affected more than 50 countries but soon collapsed under the repression of military forces loyal to royalties and aristocracies.

In "Belarus Sets Date for Presidential Election That Opposition Calls Its 'Last Chance' " (news article, Dec. 17), you say that the recent elections in Azerbaijan were "suspect," as opposed to "popular upheavals" in Georgia and Ukraine.

For Israel, those costs would certainly include heavy retaliatory rocket and missile strikes by Hezbollah and Hamas against Israeli civilians, a wave of popular anti-Israeli upheaval in Egypt, and the prolonged inflammation of Iran's nuclear nationalism.

Yemen, a U.S. ally, has been in upheaval since a popular uprising ousted veteran president Ali Abdullah Saleh in February.