Sentence examples for racial clashes from inspiring English sources

The British National Party has frequently been embroiled in racial clashes, particularly with people of Asian descent in northwestern England.

It is working-class whites who seem to be doing worst now.Increasingly, however, racial clashes are seen as a sign of cultural alienation.

Writing for The New Republic in the early 1990s, he covered several of New York's most bitter and violent racial clashes, including the Crown Heights riot in which a black assailant killed a Hasidic man.

From our side of the river, we could read about the painful racial clashes convulsing Howard Beach and Bensonhurst and Crown Heights in the late 80's and early 90's, and feel far away, detached.

On the surface all four works are vigorous, virtuosic and lyrical, but there are countervailing undercurrents too: the Voltairean cynicism and social skewering that drive "Candide," for example, or the menacing cultural and racial clashes in the "West Side Story" dances.

Some Muslim communities have disowned him, and he faces being stripped of his title as mufti of Australia.Some people still associate Lakemba with ugly racial clashes in December 2005 between gangs of mainly Lebanese youths, and whites from Cronulla, an insular Anglo beach suburb further south on the railway line.

"In a history often defined by racial clash," he writes, "hip offers an alternative account of centuries of contact and emulation, of back-and-forth".

John Lewis, the civil rights figure who became a congressman from Georgia, recalled in a speech at Yale in 1995 that leaders of the movement had been on a first-name basis with Mr. Marshall, whose skills, Mr. Lewis said, may have helped avert a more vast Southern racial clash.

It was this location where "Battle saved a white officer during a racial clash in 1919".

The move came after he sympathised with neo-Nazis last weekend following a racial clash in Charlottesville which left several people injured and one person dead.

White officers who didn't offer lifts to black marines were attacked, there was a major riot at the principal military prison, the Long Binh Stockade, in October 1968, and a critical inter-racial clash on the Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier in October 1972.