Sentence examples for large-scale riots from inspiring English sources

Large-scale riots followed for a week, and smaller clashes have continued almost every night since.

In 1787 large-scale riots threatened Edo, Ōsaka, and other major cities.

(Her latest right-wing wheeze, replacing progressive property taxes with a regressive poll tax, had sparked large-scale riots).

No large-scale riots have occurred, but concern is mounting that such protests are not far off.

They should have known better: in the 1760s and 1770s attempts at liberalising the grain trade had already led to rising prices and scarcity, triggering large-scale riots.

Large-scale riots and demonstrations broke out in the Gaza Strip in early December and continued for more than five years thereafter.

But at least large-scale rioting has declined since the BJP took over.

Holder's appearance there last month was credited with diminishing tensions that seemed to be building toward large-scale rioting.

Long subjected to discrimination, they have been ambivalent about their identities and never before were involved in such large-scale rioting.

That the fuel crisis has not yet led to large-scale rioting speaks just as loudly about the durability of those who live here.

At the intersection of Florence and Normandie avenues, in predominantly black South Central Los Angeles not far from Watts, where large-scale rioting had resulted in 34 deaths in 1965 a growing crowd began harassing motorists.