Sentence examples for bout of rioting from inspiring English sources

This has been standard procedure since a bout of rioting in the Liaoning town of Yangjiazhangzi two years ago, which prompted a review of the rules to ensure that any unrest was quickly dealt with.Large-scale urban unrest could draw in discontented people from many different backgrounds and undermine the normal functioning of government and vital parts of the economy.

The anonymous man's slightly cryptic question of how "certain elements might react" seemed pertinent, so I asked Jabu Maseko – a local 20-year-old recruitment consultant – whether she thought the verdict could cause another bout of rioting.

The slogan Black Lives Matter – adopted by a protest movement that has spread across the US since the fatal police shooting last August of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, which sparked two bouts of rioting last year – was emblazoned on a neon sign outside the church.

In Britain, where social mobility is lower and income differences are greater than in most other European countries — and where a bout of youth rioting last August added urgency to the issue — Prime Minister David Cameron recently introduced a controversial pilot program of parenting classes.

In 1969, resentment at this situation helped to fuel a convulsive bout of race riots.

The first protests of the Arab spring in Tunisia in December 2010 were quickly dismissed as another bout of bread riots.

Nick Pearce, of the Institute for Public Policy Research, speculates that previous bouts of widespread rioting, such as in 1981, demanded a response because they were fuelled by racial grievances.

Many of the heavily followed celebs, journalists, businesspeople and politicians are starting to censor out the minutiae of their lives – the relationships, drinking bouts, the close-combat accounts of rioting that used to make Twitter so exhilarating – in favour of more serious content.

Venezuela's military has taken control of security in the coastal city of Cumaná after the latest bout of looting and food riots that led to the arrest of 400 people, many of them minors.

In the past, bouts of anti-Tamil rioting had raged with the complicity of earlier governments.

But no signs of rioting yet.