Sentence examples for earlier riots from inspiring English sources

City officials had argued that much of the violence from earlier riots had been caused by "outside agitators".

(One year earlier, riots had broken out between white protesters and National Guard troops when a black student named James Meredith tried to enter the University of Mississippi).

Referring indirectly to Pakistan, India's prime minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee said the siege had been staged because opponents of the elections were "jealous" of their success.Gujarat has been a potential tinderbox since the earlier riots.

The cause, as in earlier riots that followed the burning of Korans in Afghanistan and the publication of anti-Islamic cartoons in Denmark, was a perceived blasphemy — in this case a video clip that denigrated the Prophet Muhammad.

The British were concerned about communist influence and labour strikes which were undermining Singapore's economic stability, and felt that the local government was ineffective in handling earlier riots.

Earlier riot police had stormed into the lobby, beating those inside.

In an earlier riot on the West Side, though, when white officers were beating black rioters, Battle "got even," he said, by "whipping white heads".

Rumours abounded of Tibetans killed by security forces in isolated incidents during the earlier rioting, but not during the final push to reassert control over the city.

As The Economist went to press, the authorities seemed to be back in charge but the situation was dangerously fluid.Three days earlier, riot police had broken up the first pockets of protest.

The earliest riots occurred at Mahim in 1850, in consequence of a dispute between two rival factions of Khojas.

I mean, Softboiled Eggies don't just play "[horrible] Everett True music" – a description that was coined by Manic Street Preachers' bassist Nicky Wire back in the early 90s to describe a far more abrasive sound, somewhere between early Guided By Voices and the early Riot Grrrls.