Sentence examples for unrest set from inspiring English sources

Civil unrest set back production in Nigeria.

The seven killings all occurred against a backdrop of political unrest set off by the coup that ousted President Manuel Zelaya 13 months ago.

There is even talk of another wave of nationwide unrest, set off both by the new law and by resentment over living standards, which remain miserably low even when Russia is awash with oil money.Managers are twitchy.

A 1968 Nixon ad reveling in Democratic Party chaos, for instance, is a wordless montage of the Chicago convention, Vietnam and civil unrest, set to a daffily jaunty rendition of "Happy Days Are Here Again".

The 1980s were a difficult, unsettled age of bitter industrial disputes, mass unemployment, peace camps and civil unrest set in the anxious international context of a cold war threatening to become hot.

Such confessions, almost always extracted under duress, are part of an effort to recast the civil unrest set off by Iran's disputed presidential election as a conspiracy orchestrated by foreign nations, human rights groups say.

Order, of a sort, was restored.Social unrest seems set to spiral anyway.

So unless the protest causes are addressed effectively, which seems unlikely, civil unrest is set to continue and grow next year.

Still, whatever the longer-term prospects, the wave of unrest has set back the recovery that started late last year in the region's real estate markets after the slump brought on by the 2008-2009 global financial crisis.

Even in a country with a long history of instability, the current unrest has set off alarms, with humanitarian groups warning of a looming disaster of widespread malnutrition and disease because the economy has shut down, international aid workers have fled the countryside and violence outside the capital has prevented farmers from tending their crops.

But the unrest looks set to continue, and the army already stretched by the collapse of civilian security forces may not be able to do much about it.In the meantime, the military has begun to reach out to opposition forces, notably the young protestors who occupied Cairo's Tahrir Square for 18 days.