Since then, around two million or approximately 30 percent of Israelis have participated in protests against this policy.
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In a very real way, the 2011 trend for protests in the West if not all over the world is as much about money as anything else.
Unlike the confusion that reigned during the 2005 conclave, the smoke this time around has been clear: black during the first two rounds of burned ballots, and then a clear white on Wednesday night thanks to special smoke flares akin to those used in soccer matches or protests that were lit in the chapel ovens.
Moreover, Mr Putin cannot resist now, as ever forceful and confrontational gestures, such as his hostile speech at a security conference in Munich in 2007 or his attempt to blame Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state, for the winter protests in Moscow.
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Protests in Europe against Israel's invasion of Gaza in 2009 quickly turned violent but not in Sweden.
The protests in China were ruthlessly crushed, but they and the collapse of communism elsewhere triggered fierce debate among Chinese leaders about the direction of reform.
The two biggest protests in the last decade two of the biggest ever were by the Countryside Alliance in 2002 and the one on the eve of the Iraq war in 2003.
Near the village's main square which has served as the main meeting point for protests in recent days but which was quiet Sunday night a portrait of Mr. Xue has been hung as a memory.
Twice in 2011 during the protests against public-spending cuts in the spring and during the riots in August the Metropolitan Police were briefly overwhelmed by civil disorder.
When protests erupted in Inner Mongolia after the death in May this year of an ethnic-Mongol herder allegedly when he was run over by a coal-lorry driven by an ethnic-Han Chinese the response in Mongolia itself was muted.
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Communist party officials in the face of rising protests, and the village a collection of squat stone homes has been essentially governing itself.
Such land disputes account for 65% of "mass incidents" the government's euphemism for large protests in rural areas, according to Yu Jianrong, a professor and expert on rural issues at the state-run Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) Venezuela's government-friendly electoral council quickly certified the razor-thin presidential victory of Hugo Chavez' hand-picked successor Monday, apparently ignoring opposition demands for a recount as anti-government protests broke out in the bitterly polarized nation.
Thein Sein took office two years ago this month, and despite ushering in an era of reform, he has faced not only violence in Rakhine state, but an upsurge in fighting with ethnic Kachin rebels in the north and major protests at a northern copper mine where angry residents emboldened by promises of freedom of expression have come out to denounce land grabbing.
What would be needed were Americans in successive generations who were willing to do their part through protests and struggles, on the streets and in the courts, through a civil war and civil disobedience, and always at great risk to narrow that gap between the promise of our ideals and the reality of their time.
In previous years he had led the marchers but this time he called for an end to their protests, when civil disturbance culminated in an arson attack that killed three children.
They worry that if anti-American protests are not held in check, they could trigger a popular backlash especially in countries such as Egypt and Saudi Arabia, where Islamist sentiment is on the rise.
When 12 of the 27 countries there spoke up for a new approach to solving their maritime disputes, China sniffed co-ordination nay, conspiracy especially when Vietnam swiftly stepped up its protests about Chinese activities in disputed waters.
Among other factors, U.S. credibility is undermined by our timidity to test our own nuclear weapons on our own soil in fear of international objections and protests by Martin Sheen and other Hollywood 1960s retreads.
Protests will be especially vehement in Okinawa, an island prefecture that serves with others areas of Japan as a platform for U.S. military bases and operations in Asia.
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Mr Dolci tried to stir up the regional government in Palermo and the national government in Rome, embarrassing them with Gandhi-style hunger-strikes, sit-down protests, non-violent demonstrations theatrical happenings, eagerly reported in northern Europe.
Augusta National has dragged its heels before it didn't have an African-American member until 1990, and it endured protests about the absence of women in the previous decade.
In the event that U.S. diplomatic protests are actually issued and once again given short-shrift (3) the need for more effective American means of securing allied attention and cooperation will be self-evident.
Nor does it seem to have been a revolution, not least because the protests as Anne Applebaum suggested in the Washington Post may well have been a bit of stagecraft cooked up by the government. (In a country paranoid about Romanian revanchism, the protesters flew a Romanian flag over the Parliament building.) In the Iranian case, meanwhile, the people tweeting about the demonstrations were almost all in the West.
KLA. During last year's rebellion which eventually forced him out of office he used supporters from his home region to fend off the protests against his rule, which were strongest in southern Albania.
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