The police state he created has been inadequate to the power of popular protest.
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Every initiative has been a botched, short-term gesture to placate his or her party or to buy off popular protest.
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The charges follow heavy-handed police measures trying to halt seven days of popular protest about rising electricity prices.
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But popular protest can work.
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The print became a focus of popular protest and turned its maker into an artistic celebrity whose campaign helped to reduce the penalty fromdeath to imprisonment.
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