Sentence examples for potential riots from inspiring English sources

If Draghi pulls the plug, he could be held responsible for potential riots on the streets of Athens and national unrest.

Sergio Demique, "the mood of the population is volatile," and the troops must help control or even end demonstrations and potential riots.

Yates spoke alongside Tef Poe and Tory Russell, activists for Hands Up United and the Organisation for Black Struggle, hours after it emerged that authorities in Missouri were making plans to deal with potential riots in the event of Wilson avoiding prosecution.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake told the Baltimore Sun that city officials are having "constant conversations and planning sessions" to prepare for, and prevent, potential riots.

As the NYPD prepared for potential riots across the city, US Attorney General Eric Holder attempted to suppress clashes by announcing that federal authorities would launch a civil rights investigation into the death.

The Metropolitan Police described its efforts to manage the protest as a "significant policing operation," with thousands of officers being drafted in against potential riots, but it's very likely that if they had decided not to show up at all, everyone would have got bored and gone home.

According to the authorities, Giggs is still a potential riot-inciting menace, thickly eulogising vengeance and violence, using music to cover his tracks; a terrible example to susceptible youths who, apparently, will not be inspired by the grim, lonely, angry docu-dramas Giggs narrates to pull out of a wretched domestic imitation of gang life and find new ways to express and locate themselves.

JOHNSON: About a potential riot.

After the match ended without a decisive winner, the promoters stepped in, turned up the arena lights, and played the National Anthem to stop a potential riot.

But the chief knew, as well as every single cop, that soon after the shooting Thursday we were going to have protests and the potential for riots.

Opposition to faster appreciation also has come from political leaders worried about urban unemployment and the potential for rioting if exporters lose sales and lay off workers — or even if exporters simply hire fewer workers each year at a time when nearly 10 million migrant workers are pouring into China's cities each year from rural areas.