Sentence examples for rash of riots from inspiring English sources
A Protestant paramilitary group, the Ulster Defense Association, has been blamed by the police for organizing the current rash of riots.
It is the second such action since the police shooting of a 15-year-old boy in December sparked a rash of riots and uncorked labor unrest over the country's sharp economic downturn.
Assistant Chief Constable Alan McQuillan said the current rash of rioting has been the city's worst since 1981, and ascribed the heavy police casualties to the use of gasoline bombs and pipe bombs.
As if 134 deaths in a two-week rash of prison riots were not dramatic enough for Brazil, on January 19 a plane crash killed Teori Zavascki, the Supreme Court justice overseeing a high-profile nation-wide corruption case known as Operation Carwash, which has incriminated the upper echelons of national politics.
"It reduces the risk of riots".
The resentment of white workers returning from service in the First World War partly explains a rash of deadly race riots and house burnings in what came to be called the Red Summer of 1919.
The armory was built in the late 1870's by the Seventh Regiment, a Silk Stocking militia unit that raised the money from rich men and companies ruffled by a rash of strikes and riots.
June has seen a rash of lootings and food riots in several cities across the country, and four deaths have been reported in separate incidents in the last week.
In order to effectively construct a model of riots, however, we must have an understanding of human behavior, especially that related to an individual's need for identity and the role rumors play on a person's decision to riot.
