unrest
Example Sentences
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Some of the biggest recent movement has come with precious metals like gold thanks to their status as a safe-haven investment amid geopolitical unrest.
From Barron's
Protests and strikes in Iran over inflation and currency devaluation have spread from the capital, Tehran, to several other cities on a third day of unrest.
From BBC
The majority therefore says student unrest “cannot be the type of disruption that permits restricting or punishing a professor’s academic speech.”
Since Touadera was first elected in 2016 in the middle of a bloody civil war, the CAR has seen unrest ease despite ongoing feuds between armed groups and the government in some regions.
From Barron's
But even as authorities have largely tolerated these acts of social defiance to avoid public unrest there are limits to how much they will allow.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
