Sentence examples for fierce rioting from inspiring English sources

Ten years ago the deaths of 17-year-old Zyed and Bounna Traore, 15, while they were trying to escape from the police in a banlieue, unleashed three weeks of fierce rioting.

On the six o'clock news, we watched in disbelief and anger the fierce rioting in Derry and the extraordinary images of thousands of Catholic people fleeing their burning homes in Belfast.

Food subsidies have been abolished, even in the teeth of fierce riots.

There were similar scenes by Liverpool's St George's Hall and more than 200 people gathered in Brixton, south London – the scene of fierce riots in 1981.

Fierce riots broke out on Sunday night after the police entered a central ultra-Orthodox neighborhood to remove the body of a murder victim from a hostel.

The gathering of about 150 people in Brixton - the scene of fierce riots in 1981 - attracted a heavy police presence and led to small scale acts of vandalism and graffiti.

The first was the civil-rights movement, a revolution that exploded in fierce urban riots across the country.

In the 1920s, the rivalry had gotten so fierce that riots erupted on the streets of downtown Baltimore on the day before "The Game" when opposing parades clashed resulting in the sons of both the Mayor of Baltimore and the Governor of Maryland were arrested in 1928.

After fierce criticisms about policing, 10,000 officers were on standby for the funeral of Tottenham shooting victim Mark Duggan amid fears that the occasion would prompt further rioting.

Eastern Europe is rioting.

The flowers were rioting.