The Israeli security forces were braced for wide-scale protests on Nakba Day – the most highly charged day in the Palestinian calendar – and had deployed around 10,000 troops and police along the country's borders and in the Palestinian territories.
The month-long world tour encountered wide-scale protests.
According to The Detroit News, on nine of those occasions a major war, wide-scale protests or an economic downturn has rocked the country and this corner of the Midwest.
He drops in on communities where there have been protests and he shakes up that local system, but at this point there's no real coherent policy that says, this is how we're going to do it on a wide scale, so the protests continue.
"There have been hunger strikes and riots on a wide scale and individual acts on a day-to-day basis by inmates protesting about their treatment.
Conservation on a wide scale takes more than good ideas.
"Wall-E" has not opened on a wide scale internationally.
He has already signalled he anticipates wide scale change.
But little is likely to change – large scale protests last year over royalty increases were mostly ignored.
And it's happening on such a wide scale.
The arrest led to huge scale protests across the city.
