The protests ultimately swept to power a liberal, Western-style reformer, Viktor A. Yushchenko.

He agreed to it only because he had no other choice after violent protests swept across South Korea last June.

In the late 1960's, when antiwar protests swept the nation, he was a target of student radicals whom he denounced as "incoherent kooks" and "barbarians."

The protests swept on past them.

When six leaders of the union were arrested and sentenced to seven years' transportation, a massive protest swept across the country.

Even before protests swept our country, people queued for hours clutching jerrycans.

They were released before the end of their sentence when large-scale protests against what was alleged to be an inhumane and illegal incarceration swept the country.

Wisconsin recently withdrew a graduation test after protests swept the state.

As protests swept the Arab world, toppling two regimes, the Chinese government has strengthened its elaborate security apparatus with crackdowns on human rights lawyers and activists.

Besides, I'd already lost high school friends in the war, volunteers in the years before the anti-war protests swept the college campuses.