Sentence examples for wave of evictions from inspiring English sources

Most contentiously, a wave of evictions in Tbilisi over the summer took place in violation of the procedures laid out by law.

Spanish protesters have also taken their discontent to the front doors of their politicians, staging demonstrations at the homes of government members against a wave of evictions prompted by the economic crisis.

France's new Socialist government is to hold emergency talks on the plight of the country's Roma after a wave of evictions of makeshift camps prompted accusations that François Hollande was following Nicolas Sarkozy's lead in persecuting the ethnic minority.

The Occupy movement has stalled in recent weeks after a wave of evictions swept away a raft of encampments, including the largest in Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New York.

For some, Nieto stood for victims of police brutality and for a Latino community that felt imperilled by gentrification, by the wave of evictions and the people who regarded them as menaces and intruders in their own neighbourhood.

Rather predictably, it has triggered a wave of evictions.

Far worse is about to strike as the yet harsher universal credit is rolled out, with more waves of evictions anticipated.

Speculation is both an economic bane and a political one: soaring land prices in urban areas have made homes unaffordable for many in China's emerging middle class, and low-income residents in big cities have been hit with waves of evictions by both private and government speculators that have bought up their properties.

"There have been waves of evictions in the past, but this latest one that began after Rio was chosen to host the mega events may be the biggest one yet in terms of numbers". The authorities insist that due process has been followed and no residents have been forcibly relocated.

In Spain, unemployment is about 25% - the highest rate in Europe - and the economic crisis is now resulting in waves of evictions and repossessions.

1. Rents are going to skyrocket and waves of evictions are likely.