Sentence examples for precipitating protests from inspiring English sources

In late May 2010 he reached an agreement with U.S. officials to move the location of the base but keep it on Okinawa, precipitating protests from Okinawans and others and defections from his ruling coalition.

Four years later, a subsequent Dutch government awarded sevice medals to veterans of the Srebrenica operation, precipitating protests in the Netherlands and Bosnia.

The end of Suharto's 32-year presidency in 1998 was precipitated by protests that followed IMF-mandated rises.

A Nazi Party member from 1933 to 1942, Karajan was exonerated by an Allied tribunal after World War II, but his American debut in 1955 precipitated public protests.

That action precipitated loud protests from other countries in the Asia-Pacific region, and he provoked further controversy over his views on the sovereignty of islands in the Pacific that were disputed between China and Japan, as well as for his stance favouring revision of the pacifism clause in the Japanese constitution.

Half a decade after a bloody civil war between Maoist insurgents and the ruling monarchy – and only months removed from a November 2013 presidential election precipitated by protests – Nepal's government is more concerned with the rising problems of hunger and geo-politics.

In return, though, Athens has had to impose bitter budget cuts and umpteen tax hikes -- measures that precipitated popular protests and political turbulence as incomes fell by at least 25%, hundreds of thousands of small businesses went bankrupt and unemployment shot up to 28%, putting Greece at the center of global debate over the merits of austerity.

Elections in that year brought new leadership under Colorado conservatives, but inflation and a production slump continued to grip the country, precipitating increasingly stronger protests followed by a government crackdown on students and unions.

The protests precipitated a national emergency, but they also overturned a pattern of defeat.

In February, Medicins Sans Frontires were expelled from Rakhine state, on heavily contested grounds, a move that was precipitated by mass protests against the medical aid charity by Rakhines.

The protests precipitated a rift in Hong Kong society, and galvanized youth - a previously apolitical section of society - into political activism or heightened awareness of their civil rights and responsibilities.