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How to use the word unrest in a Sentence?

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(It) is an opportunity for Raisi to try to draw a line under the past five months of domestic unrest and project a sense of normalcy at home and abroad.

Henry Rome

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is a vital piece of our nation’s infrastructure that bolsters our energy and national security, while the reserve has been a policy Band-Aid for rising gas prices and the global unrest caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the reserve is, above-all, meant to help the United States and our allies through difficult times, not to help China power its economy.

Joe Manchin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

India is sitting on a time bomb, there will be social unrest if it cannot create enough employment in a relatively short period of time.

Chandrasekhar Sripada

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Suppression of expression conceals the real problems confronting a society and diverts public attention from the critical issues. It is likely to result in neglect of the grievances which are the actual basis of the unrest, and this prevent their correction.

Thomas I. Emerson

added by Normando
1 year ago

That said, we're in a big country, so even if a minority decide to riot, that can still have a profound impact on the sense of having a country that is stable and secure, imagine, for example, if Donald Trump wins in 2024, I'm not sure I'd want to be in the middle of a major city right after that happens because … there could be a little bit of unrest.

Shadi Hamid

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

In these cases, the court balances the public's interest against the need for continued secrecy, this was a historic raid that has caused a great deal of public unrest. Millions of Americans are questioning the motivation of the Justice Department.

Jonathan Turley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The Dutch are driven mad by these policies because it's killing their businesses and the farmers are fighting back big time, this is what's going to happen all over Europe. I have no doubt that, come winter and millions of families can't heat their homes or pay their bills anymore, that there will be unrest all over Europe.

Benny Peiser

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Many people lost their lifetime savings because of this and [ if ] more incidences like this takes place, and [ if ] a bank run is met with a government crackdown, social unrest will be the only end result.

Frank Xie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I would really not exclude also the possibility of Russia to continue polarizing American society, so we might actually see new protests or different unrest prior to the 2022 elections.

Ivana Stradner

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I think the' airing of grievances' as depicted in' Jerry Seinfeld' is probably the last thing we need this year, with the compounded stresses from COVID-19, political strife and racial unrest from 2020, we need to focus on positivity, healing, and cooperation right now.

David Susman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If they decided to riot orif unrest happened, it would be a terrible situation, it is ripe. It is 100 degrees outside right now and you literally have 14,878 people here -- this is how serious the situation is.

The Texas Republican

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We used the National Guard in the civil unrest period to secure areas that needed to be secured from looting and burning, and it freed up the police to do other things, but to send in the National Guard and a troop carrier into a neighborhood in Philadelphia, to me, is not respectful to that neighborhood, number one. Number two, they are not capable or trained to do urban policing, or do policing of any kind.

Mayor Kenney

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Because of the political unrest, the gang violence and so on in Haiti, they were taking this small plane to Jacmel where they would meet up with the rest of their family, they were flying to Jacmel and then they were going to meet up with our missionaries then, who were going to take them to Petit-Goâve.

Darwin Hostetler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Mike Nearman took credit for Mike Nearman principles without taking responsibility for the consequences of Mike Nearman actions, mike Nearman did not choose to advance peaceful protest or engage in civil disobedience. Mike Nearman plan to let people into Oregon State Capitol ended with violence, property destruction and injured cops. This disregard for the rule of law leads us deeper into civil unrest and division. If we want to turn our state around we must hold ourselves to a higher standard as we work to lead and serve the greater good.

Christine Drazan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The US generally is not The US, but The US's what people see, we've also seen, in times of civil unrest, that we see people go out and say that they need to protect themselves.

Jack McDevitt

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We've also seen, in times of civil unrest, that we see people go out and say that they need to protect themselves.

Jack McDevitt

Found on CNN
2 years ago

How can Keith Rivers instill and stop unrest in the community when Keith Rivers has failed to show any transparency or any level of accountability for Keith Rivers to this community ? how can he effectively carry out the duties of the sheriff with impartiality ? The integrity is gone.

Keith Rivers

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'm hoping civil unrest happens, other than that, you can hire a private mosquito control company to come out to your whole community and have them spray. There's no way to opt out of this trial at this point.

Mara Daly

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Our teams are working around the clock to look for potential threats both on and off of Facebook and Instagram so we can protect peaceful protests and limit content that could lead to civil unrest or violence.

Monika Bickert

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Never in the history of the Department have our officers had to contend with a global health pandemic, civil unrest, and the scourge of rising fun violence simultaneously, despite these challenges, Department members worked tirelessly to meet the requirements of the consent decree.

David Brown

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

What is the risk? Social unrest. You can call it a lost decade. It may be a lost generation.

Kristalina Georgieva

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Make the phone calls, send the emails, show up, you know, there needs to be unrest in the streets for as long as there’s unrest in our lives.

Ayanna Pressley

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We've seen these tactics a number of times in Milwaukee and across the state where they call themselves preparing for unrest. The unrest happens when there has been an action and there is a reaction to it.

Activist Vaun Mayes

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I mean, they have 500 troops here. They have the police department and the sheriff's department, they have other agencies. But the assumption that we're going to be firebombed is the wrong assumption. we've seen these tactics a number of times in Milwaukee and across the state where they call themselves preparing for unrest. The unrest happens when there has been an action and there is a reaction to it.

Activist Vaun Mayes

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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