Sentence examples for was agitation from inspiring English sources

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was agitation

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The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion.

  • After a storm the sea is in agitation.

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There was agitation, questioning, speculation among the inmates.

One hundred and twenty miles to the southwest, at swollen Yankee Stadium, there was agitation.

Shaw is a sympathizer of a group of black leaders he calls "the Mau-Maus," activists whose style was agitation, and who did not spare Kirk.

Investment in the Bishop Auckland coalfield of western County Durham was heavily concentrated in Darlington, where there was agitation for improvement in the outward shipment of the increasing tonnages produced.

In 1859, when there was agitation for the creation of a separate colony of Queensland, an unofficial light blue flag was hoisted; it bore a red Cross of St . Georgeand, in the canton, a Union Jack.

About a minute later there was agitation as someone with a walker made her way to the rear, then an alarm as she breached a forbidden door.

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This is agitation.

If the back arches, again, that's agitation.

It can be agitation or protest, or some form of information gathering, or just to take them offline".

The present charge is "agitation activities, such as spreading of rumors and defaming of the government, aimed at subversion of the state and overthrowing the socialism system".

Since last year, there has been agitation to rename it Mount Tenzing, but it doesn't look as if anything will come of this.

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