Sentences with phrase «protests turned violent»

Protests rocked cities across Brazil in June 2013, and in Chile, recent student protests turned violent.

Tragically, some of the protests turned violent and took the lives of Americans, Libyans, Tunisians and Yemenis.

Zio, My post was a response to Stuart's earlier earlier attempt to explain why the protest turned violent, in the light of the fact that so little time had so far elapsed since Browne.

Not exact matches

The weekend's protests had turned violent, and one person had been killed.

A vicar in the Pakistani capital Islamabad has told Premier protests over the death of a Muslim man who killed a politician defending Christians could turn violent.

A Catholic church and convent in Benghazi, Libya, were plundered and burned just days after anti-Italian protests in Libya turned violent.

As for your seriously off base torture comparison, if we saw a drastic increase in violent crimes, and there was a public outcry for harsher punishments to try and serve as a deterrent, and the Bill was drafted, made open to the public, and the solid majority of the population didn't turn against it with protests, signatures, and contacting their representatives; maybe a torture law could make it (though it would never get past the Supreme Court as the Consttution is now, but we'll let that slide as a hypothetical).

Protests during the one - year anniversary of the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson turned violent after police say two groups of people exchanged fired late last night.

Francis» visit comes after a month of antigovernment protests in Brazil that often turned violent.

If only they were / are more violent in their protest (not violent per say, i meant 100 % active enough to quake the Arsenal board), things coulda taken a better turn by the day....

The disorder began on Saturday when a protest against the shooting of 29 - year old Mark Duggan turned violent and two police cars were set alight.

On why Buhari Must Heed EU's advice, the group stated that in the world over, violent suppression of non-violent protests by territorial governments have always boomeranged; leading the suppressed to abandon non-violent approaches and resort to self help or self defense approaches including Most of the ongoing devastating intra State violent conflicts in Africa and the Middle East primarily started as non-violent socio - political or ethno - cultural campaigns, but turned violent on account of the host States» repressive and dictatorial responses.

Men of the Ogun Command of the police and some officials of the Nigerian Civil Defense Corps were drafted to the scene to ensure the protests does not turn violent.

After a period of protests, seeking to ensure black people were represented in government and other areas of public life, the revolution against the British occupation and the exploitation of the country's natural resources turns violent.

In a chat with pressmen at the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, he decried the way and manner the youths were going about the demonstration was wrong as they had turned what was supposed to be a peaceful protest into violent killings and destruction of properties.

Protests in the nation's capital turned violent as Trump assumed the presidency.

Protests and Demonstrations - Protests and demonstrations, even those that are well intended, have the potential to turn violent with no warning.

Street demonstrations and protests are commonplace in Peru, frequently occurring suddenly and sometimes turning violent.

It has turned violent, too — I'm thinking of the Charlottesville protests in August last year.

A protest against a coal plant project two years ago in Sompeta in the eastern coastal state of Andhra Pradesh turned violent, with two farmers killed by police and several others wounded.

Six persons were killed and dozens injured as Dalit protests during a day - long nation - wide shutdown on Monday turned violent in India amid anger against a Supreme Court order that dilutes a law aimed at preventing atrocities against Dalits and Tribes.

Political protests and demonstrations are common in Iraq and often turn violent.