Sentence examples for general riot from inspiring English sources

The miners' lawyers alleged that two police officers had been allocated to each arrested man, then made near-identical statements that they had seen a miner commit an offence as part of a general riot, which crumbled under cross-examination.

Somervile's account of the 1740 Games describes a general riot in which "chairs, and forms, and battered bowls are hurled/With fell intent; like bombs the bottles fly".

Whatever the cause the result was a general riot, which also involved a number of spectators, after which Waterfall was sent to guard the goal as punishment.

Can Montserrat now make a living?In this section Chávez's battle to keep the oil flowing General riot Disaster area The dollarised revolution Bungle in the jungle Reprints Related items Caribbean folliesAug 28th 1997 The Montserrat muddleAug 28th 1997It attracts a few day trippers, has a tiny offshore financial sector and plans an internet gambling operation.

It was a general admission riot.

As the result of a general amnesty, Pussy Riot rockers Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina have been set free.

After the 2006 general election, antigovernment riots broke out and parts of Honiara were burned and looted; the new prime minister, Snyder Rini, resigned after eight days in office and was replaced by Manasseh Sogavare, who opposed the presence of RAMSI.

General unrest and riots such as that at Littleport may have been a factor in the government passing the Vagrancy Act of 1824.

General unrest and riots such as that at Littleport may have been a factor in the government passing the Vagrancy Act of 1824 and subsequently the Metropolitan Police Act of 1829.

"Would you consider a riot a general combat definition?" conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt asked O'Reilly on his show yesterday.

Tóibín accepts without question, for example, the rather unlikely story that the temple priests were sufficiently influential among a general public who regularly rioted against them that they could force the crowd to call for Barabbas not Jesus during Pilate's version of "Judea's Got (Criminal) Talent": first prize pardon, second prize crucifixion.