Sentence examples for protests reaching from inspiring English sources

Forty years ago, the climate was much different, with war protests reaching such a pitch that students took over buildings for days on end and violent clashes with the police led to more than 500 arrests and scores of injuries.

But with protests reaching a fever pitch, the United Nations Drug Control Program last week called for international monitoring to determine the safety of spraying and the extent of inadvertent spraying of legal crops.

In a development that would foreshadow the larger Occupy Wall Street movement that emerged nationally several months later, huge protests, reaching as many as 30,000 participants, developed during the Wisconsin Legislature's consideration of the bill, and included a several-week sit-in of the State Capitol building.

Since the wave of Arab street protests reached Bahrain in February, dozens of people - mostly protesters - have been killed in the ensuing violence and hundreds injured.

The protests reached London, in the form of a demonstration by the GMB union, last December.

Whether the protests reach the violence of the meeting last year in Davos remains to be seen.

The fresh round of violence came as the death toll from Friday's protests reached 44, according to the Syrian National Organization for Human Rights.

The protests reached a new level of violence on January 28, when thousands of demonstrators clashed with police following Friday prayers.

The protests reached a crescendo in June after a Taliban ambush killed 13 Pakistani soldiers, 7 of whom were beheaded.

Two months after the cornerstone was dedicated, as protests reached a crescendo, the association sponsored another competition.

It was devised to find a way to ease Mr. Saleh out of office after Yemen's antigovernment protests reached a crippling pitch.