Sentence examples for repress social protests from inspiring English sources

The party claims it is being targeted for political reasons; it fears the government is planning to repress social protests.

But around half say they do not favour violent repression".We are not going to use a trigger-happy police force to repress social protest," Mr Kirchner insisted last week.

Technologies associated with virtual sociability will continue to facilitate the organisation and spread of social protests that transcend borders and trigger other protests with ever-greater speed [22].

They could organize social protests but not social movements.

"Genuine nonpolitical social protest?" he concluded.

What is the current state of social protest?

One must, however, be cautious about praising the impact of social media on social protest.

The Poznań protests, although the largest, were not unique in Poland, where social protest resumed its fury that autumn.

The riots started as a social protest against the police, but ended up as a spontaneous, collective robbery – a highly disarticulated form of social protest with a message to society that was very contradictory and difficult to decrypt.

The profession's survival resembles the history of early social protest and reform movements in western history.

During the 1960 and 70's, Mexico's government used violence as a form of repressing social movements, seen in the massacre of Tlatelolco where the government murdered 300 to 400 protesting students and civilians.