Sentence examples for protests escalating from inspiring English sources
Police stepped in to stop protests escalating as hundreds of people gathered at Stone Mountain in Georgia this weekend to celebrate the Confederate flag, as calls continue across the country for the flag to be banned.
With support for the protests escalating — a new poll by Datafolha found that 77 percent of São Paulo residents approved of them this week, compared with 55 percent the week before — Mayor Haddad and Geraldo Alckmin, the governor from an opposition party, bowed on Wednesday night, announcing that they would cancel the bus and subway fare increases after all.
Trade unions have warned of more job boycotts as earnings continue to be eroded by inflation — which at is the world's highest at more than 1,200 percent — while analysts say strikes for higher wages could set off wider work boycotts and spontaneous street protests, escalating political tensions.
"The risk of protests escalating will increase if upcoming demonstrations result in new violent actions against dissidents and particularly if the government is unable to control the intimidation tactics employed by the collective groups," said Diego Canpos-Moyanalystnatyst at IHS Country Risk.
With the protests escalating again, I am pretty tired of seeing the city's young and disenfranchised fight each other amid an extreme housing shortage created by 30 to 40 years of NIMBYism (or "Not-In-My-Backyard-ism") from the old wealth of the city and down from the peninsula suburbs.
Demonstrations have become a fixture preceding the group's semi-annual meetings, with many of the protests escalating into violence.
26 April: Protests escalate.
As the protests escalated, the police started to harass him.
As the protests escalated during the weekend, some demonstrators redirected their anger toward media organizations.
As the protests escalated, Internet services were shut down on Wednesday and early Thursday.
On Monday, protests escalated amid reports of a scheduled start to construction.
