Rallies shrank to one tenth their previous size.

The human and material forces arrayed against Tibet are overwhelming.

The crowd s sole demand was that Lahoud step down.

The triad of fundamental forces driving Egypt since the beginning of the Arab Spring the military, the mosque, and the masses in Tahrir Square, each with different types of power and interests was thus broken.

Putin s presidential placeholder, Dmitri Medvedev, proposed political reforms and started meeting with representatives of opposition parties, which also had a demobilizing effect.

This activated a virtuous circle by strengthening the social movements rallying around the right to food, the Supreme Court s decision enabled them to ratchet up pressure on state governments to build an effective food security apparatus.