Sentence examples for minor riot in from inspiring English sources

There was a minor riot in Beijing last week.

There, civic marketing is a serious matter: the town fractured along racial and religious lines following a minor riot in 2001.

In fact, Terry Whitmore, the author of Memphis-'Nam-Sweden: The Story Of A Black Deserter, witnessed a minor riot in the Freedom Hill post exchange at Da Nang after the manager of the beer garden, irritated by the number of black marines socialising there, promptly withdrew all soul music from the jukebox.

The police officer was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter but cleared of second degree murder and voluntary manslaughter and sentenced to just two years' jail time, a verdict which led to protests and a minor riot in Oakland during which nearly 80 people were arrested.

Much has been done in Chapeltown and Harehills, scenes of minor riots in the past three years; in the past year unemployment has dropped from 16% to 14%.

Agency reports detailed "several minor riots, in which shots were fired, in Buenos Aires", while "late at night about 100 demonstrators assembled in front of the Uruguayan Consulate and threw stones".

Instead of the dreary confines of Avery Fisher Hall, these performances took place in the Palau de la Música Catalana, a minor riot of a concert hall in Barcelona, completed in 1908.

A minor riot and Souness's departure soon followed.

Home to Britain's fourth-largest and possibly most concentrated Muslim population, it was the scene of an early burning of Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" in 1989 and of a minor race riot in 1995.

The sequence of events in both places from minor incident to major riot in minutes was very similar, as are the conditions in which the violence flared segregated white and brown people united only by suspicion of each other.As in most northern towns, Burnley's 6,000 Asians, about 7% of the population, moved into late-19th-century terraced housing when they arrived in the 1950s and 1960s.

Demonstrations in Albany, Georgia, had led to minor rioting and no concessions from city officials.