Sentence examples for modern riots from inspiring English sources

Often modern riots are compared with past and more cogent, politicized forms of protest, such as those of the socialist movements, usually to highlight how modern riots lack political argumentation.

The opening set is dominated by the fuselage of a passenger jet downed by terrorism in modern "riot-torn" Los Angeles.

The counterattack by protesters led to street fighting that looked more like medieval warfare than a modern riot.

It is sometimes considered the first modern American race riot.

The Edvard Munch show at Tate Modern was a riot of colour, an exhilarating display of what paint can do; it was also profoundly moving and often dark.

It keeps one foot in the classical world while ushering us into a modern milieu of riot-shields, smartphones and tannoys.

Though their armed forces are increasingly wrapped up in concerns about the laws of war, there is no Geneva convention in the modern conflict between riot cops and protesters.

To read the descriptions of the scenes which followed the wreckage of 1,200 of the choicest buildings in Omaha — a beautiful modern city — the riot of flames and water, the thousands of homeless people looking for shelter, the work of rescue begun by lantern light in streets strewn with fallen houses and trees, recalls the horrors of the San Francisco earthquake.

The police, on the other hand, had all the high-tech equipment of a modern urban force: riot shields, Kevlar vests and helmets, Heckler and Koch MP5 single-shot carbines, 9mm rifles, stun grenades, etc., etc. Plus large numbers, complete domination of nearby buildings and expert siege negotiators.

The New Yorker, June 1 , 1992P. 80 The worst riots in modern American history, in Los Angeles, caused the probable candidates of the two major parties to proceed with care.

By Elizabeth Drew The New Yorker, June 1 , 1992P. 80 The worst riots in modern American history, in Los Angeles, caused the probable candidates of the two major parties to proceed with care.