Sentence examples for massive riots from inspiring English sources

In May 1998, widespread food shortages and stubbornly high unemployment led to massive riots across Indonesia.

In 1979, after the ayatollah led a procession lauding the Islamic revolution in Iran, Shiites staged massive riots against the Iraqi regime.

So for instance, were there to be massive riots in London or there were to be all sorts of problems, they could go to the German government and say please send us a Panzer division, and if the German government said yes, then the European Commission could send that Panzer division to London and there is nothing the British government could do about it.

Though confident that the "majority of Hong Kong residents hope for stability" and that the opposition will not gain support, the article warns that the central government is "ready" to deal with "massive riots" that arise.

"If the opposition gains more support, provoked by external unfriendly forces, and tries to create massive riots... the Hong Kong government will adopt resolute measures and the central government will also roll out several measures to deal with it," it warns. 　.

I saw parts of the city, and wandered, but I was mostly taken in by fear — fear of going to the wrong neighborhood (the massive riots in the banlieues had only happened a few months prior) and fear of completely getting lost and never making it back.

The next day they have a massive riot, and death". "I was referring to a newspaper.

On her idiosyncratic Twitter feed, Ms. Love wrote: "a MASSIVE riot tonight putside my HOUSE the cops wouldsnt let me leave".

The expedition was intercepted by Cuban troops before it ever made it off a remote Cuban cay, but the next year, while Fidel was in Bogotá, Colombia, for an anti-imperalist youth congress, the popular Liberal politician Jorge Eliécer Gaitán was assassinated, sparking massive rioting; Fidel participated.

Announcing that the country was broke and in need of austerity, Pérez provoked a massive riot in 1989 by raising gas prices.

A massive riot in a Guatemalan prison involving a grenade and multiple firearms has killed a notorious jail "king".