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- noun Plural form of
unrest .
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Examples
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According to Mexican newspaper La Jornada [es], the artist used the term “State terrorism” while referring to the civil unrests of San Salvador Atenco that occurred in 2006 in the State of México.
Global Voices in English » Mexico: Foreign Artists Commenting on Internal Matters 2009
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These refugees are often falsely identified as economic migrants, rather than a vulnerable population who fled their homelands due to political unrests and violence.
Global Voices in English » Egypt: Cairo Refugee Film Festival 2009
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Some of its projects are in countries such as Sudan, Libya and Syria, where there are unresolved unrests and issues of governance and ethnic divisions, leading to increased business risks.
ONGC Videsh to Invest in Oil Sands, Shale Gas Assets Rakesh Sharma 2012
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Rigging elections for a presidential candidate who has no public support can spark unrests, instability and eventually mark the end of the regime.
Wael Nawara: Amr Moussa May be Offering a Safe Exit for the Egyptian Regime Wael Nawara 2010
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Rigging elections for a presidential candidate who has no public support can spark unrests, instability and eventually mark the end of the regime.
Wael Nawara: Amr Moussa May be Offering a Safe Exit for the Egyptian Regime Wael Nawara 2010
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If this is true-it is disturbing and alarming because then the regime has flown them in by the planeloads as it had done before, during student unrests in the nineties.
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This is contrary to what many believed that the US president should stay away from the Olympics, as part of the clamor from human rights organizations around the world for him to ignore the Chinese government's invitation due to the prevailing unrests in Tibet, where scores of people were killed already as chaos builds up in that part of the world.
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"According to traditional oral stories passed over generations by the inhabitants of the area, the village would have been a victim of unrests that rocked the region in the 15th century, and especially several floods," said Ahmed Ettahiri, a Moroccan medieval archaeologist.
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The military has been assuring and reassuring that a coup will not take place to solve all these political unrests.
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But for as long as there is discontent inside the military, unrests can never be eliminated.
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