Sentence examples for language riots from inspiring English sources

The Sindhi population feared that their language and culture would be overrun by the language and culture of the predominantly Urdu-speaking muhajir community, and that fear led to what became known as the language riots of 1972 and to the national government's decision to grant special status to the Sindhi language.

It started with the language riots perpetrated by the ethnic-based policies of Bhutto.

He was referring to the strong language Pussy Riot used in their song, and the fact that they danced so close to the altar.

He was "riled up" by what he saw: inflammatory language, talk of "riots" and no mention of the community initiative that had taken place earlier that day to try and clean up the streets.

The party, evidently, has incorporated the language of the riot.

The decision to make Sindhi a mandatory school language caused severe rioting in the 1970s.

Ithas been a summer of exacerbating news -major like the Watts bloodshed and the bitter power struggle in the streets of Athens and in Algeria, and minor like the small Belgian riots over language this last weekend in Ostend.

By Janet Flanner The New Yorker, September 4 , 1965P. 92 Ithas been a summer of exacerbating news -major like the Watts bloodshed and the bitter power struggle in the streets of Athens and in Algeria, and minor like the small Belgian riots over language this last weekend in Ostend.

She also quoted Martin Luther King, Jr's 1968 speech in which he describes riots as the language of the unheard.

But we need community relations: riots are the language of the unheard. .

Martin Luther King, Jr. said that riots are the language of the unheard.