Crop supply shortages can lead to spikes in food prices, food scarcity, civic unrest and even starvation in extreme cases.

Some of these protests have led to looting and civic unrest.

The Home Secretary insists that the rioters were "an unruly mob" instead of bothering to study the complicated causes of civic unrest - not least soaring unemployment.

Later housing pressures and civic unrest caused more whites to leave the area and the city.

Government instability and civic unrest were evident in other areas.

Intense fighting and civic unrest continued well into 2005, with the death toll rising to 200 in December 2004.

"Telling dangerous lies calculated to cause civic unrest."

Washington and Hamilton believed the Democratic-Republican Societies, which had been formed throughout the country, were the source of civic unrest.

He was deployed to Syria, possibly in relation to Trajan's Parthian campaign, and was wounded quelling civic unrest in Alexandria.

I was struck by the difference in terminology in your two Feb. 15 reports on Soviet civic unrest.