Sentence examples for spread of protest from inspiring English sources

Instagram has reportedly been blocked across large areas of China, including in Beijing and Shenzhen, to stop the spread of protest images and Facebook has also been limited.

In Algeria, Jordan, Morocco, and Oman, rulers offered a variety of concessions, ranging from the dismissal of unpopular officials to constitutional changes, in order to head off the spread of protest movements in their countries.

So the regime faces a dilemma: it can close down the universities to curtail the spread of protest, or it can allow the protests to continue, and face the consequences.

Cai (2008) states that the central government sometimes acquiesced to the suppression of protesters by local governments since it could avoid the spread of protests and the appearance of social organizations.

Fearing the spread of protests, the government ordered tanks and troops into the streets of Lima today.

The government's escalating violence has encouraged the spread of protests throughout the country, most significantly in Russia-leaning eastern Ukraine, which has long been Yanukovych's most solid base of support.

But the spread of protests to more than a dozen cities across Spain, plus a torrent of media attention, has also led to soul-searching among demonstrators who anticipated neither such success, nor making Sol their new home.

A1 Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, responding to the spread of protests over the recent presidential election, said the voting was riddled with fraud and that the United States could not accept the victory of Victor F. Yanukovich as legitimate.

As the burden of the crisis was loaded on to the majority, the spread of protests, strikes and electoral upheavals demonstrated that pressure for real change had only just begun.

Acknowledging the spread of protests in recent years against the brand of unfettered capitalism that he supports, Mr. Greenspan said allowing competition, products, money and ideas to flow between countries had proved a powerful force for economic advancement, but that the process yielded losers as well as winners.

Erdogan may find himself pulled by two forces, one counselling caution and the other advising firm action to prevent a further spread of protests.