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Such groundswells of protest should happen more often, privacy advocates say.

Child Identity Theft Takes Advantage Of Kids' Unused Social Security Numbers 2011

The opposition civil war alliance in 1990s Tajikistan and its failure to turn that republic in either a representative democracy or a sharia-ruled Islamic state was the perfect avenue to conflate and thus deny post-Soviet Central Asia's two most vibrant, yet entirely ideologically divergent, human groundswells.

Derek Flood: From Totalitarianism to Turbines: The Unending Struggle for Power in Central Asia 2010

In the face of these groundswells, at the most extreme, battles and treaties and the deeds of 'great men' wither into transience.

The Great Battle Against Islam Thubron, Colin 2009

I believe we need to support groundswells of grassroots politicians.

Cindy Sheehan Bugged in Denver 2008

I am not hearing or seeing any populist groundswells of racism, no systematic, secret stirrings in the Spanish moss drenched bayou country.

Stephen Chao: Will Someone Please Put a Little More Energy into the N-Word? 2008

Same with Health care, no real ‘groundswells’ of change.

Social insurance? Naw. « BuzzMachine 2008

But with the economy in a swoon, consumers in a funk and prices in ascent, isolated grumblings are coalescing into groundswells.

Increased Taxes in Pennsylvania 2008

This incident has generated groundswells of demonstrations in the area.

CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2007 2007

This incident has generated groundswells of demonstrations in the area.

CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2007 2007

Even during the Second World War, when there was a supposed National Coalition Government, Churchill and more often his hapless predecessor Neville "Peace In Our Time" Chamberlain fell foul to unexpected groundswells of opposition.

Archive 2005-11-01 Alistair Myles 2005