Sentence examples for riot struck from inspiring English sources

Pussy Riot struck at the sorest spot in modern Russia — which is why the group deserves praise, and not condemnation.

During the 1980s a series of riots struck inner-city Britain as economic crisis exacerbated tensions between police and the communities they served.

With their almost melodramatic use of light, Park's essay, which sought to answer the question of why African Americans were rioting, struck a chord with its white, middle-class audience and are still deeply moving.

The police were focusing their investigation across the Thames in South London, setting up an incident room at Lewisham, a district where youth gangs rioted in August in the wave of rioting that struck dozens of British cities and towns.

Earlier this year, the film "Detroit" depicted his attempts to defuse the riots that struck that city in 1967.

NEW DELHI — There is a numbing familiarity to the riots that struck the eastern Indian state of Assam this month, leaving 48 dead and 400,000 people homeless.

FOUR months after the summer riots that struck London and towns across England, researchers from the Guardian newspaper and the London School of Economics have performed a valuable social service by interviewing 270 of the rioters.

In all of the gonzo testimony about Stonewall, however, no reaction to the rioting has struck me as being so painfully honest (or so funny) as the novelist Edmund White's.

We hear of a riot by striking miners in which many were killed.

Marie to calm a riot by striking dock workers, his only deployment before 1914.

A cop in riot gear strikes a black man with one hand and films it on his iPhone with the other.