Sentence examples for spur protests from inspiring English sources

30 November: Police launch brutal raid on student protesters; TV images spur protests which grow during December.

But the new initiatives could well spur protests among those who have kept up their payments and are not in trouble.

The Salafi Nour party helped spur protests outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, sparking a wave of anti-American rallies in many Muslim-majority countries.

To spur protests in Shanghai, Mr. Ke and several friends built an eight-foot Styrofoam version of the Statue of Liberty.

But if the field trial is approved, as is likely, it could spur protests such as those that accompanied a field trial of GM wheat at Rothamsted Research in 2012, when hundreds of campaigners gathered at the site and threatened to destroy that crop.

Moreover, aggressive Saudi Arabia hovers uncomfortably next door, fearful that any concessions to Bahrain's Shiite majority would spur protests by the Kingdom's Shia minority.

The rising cost of fuel and food has spurred protests and arrests in Khartoum.

So the plant, which is nearing completion, has spurred protests in this split-personality neighborhood.

In some recent cases, jailhouse deaths have spurred protests and alarmed the authorities, who are eager to maintain social stability.

When a Queens judge last year acquitted the three detectives involved, the decision spurred protests that led to hundreds of arrests.

Himachal Pradesh, a northern Indian state, issued permits to kill monkeys that destroyed crops, but the practice spurred protests and is not being considered in Delhi.