Sentence examples for scene of riots from inspiring English sources

By then, Cleveland had become the scene of riots, of blocks of burning buildings.

The Christmas Island detention centre has been the scene of riots and unrest before.

THE Stonewall Inn, in New York's West Village, is famous in gay history as the scene of riots against the police in 1969.

The Tesco store is across the road from an Ikea that was the scene of riots when it opened with a midnight sale in 2005.

The city endorsed the Reformation in 1555 and was the scene of riots in 1607, when supporters of the Counter-Reformation attempted to reconvert the population to Roman Catholicism.

York Gardens Library and Community Centre, on a deprived estate in Wandsworth very close to the scene of riots in August, was threatened with closure due to council cuts.

There were no TV cameras in sight, as crews struggled to access the scene of rioting.

The overcrowded Za'atari camp, scene of rioting over living conditions last month, is currently hosting 36,000 people.

Yining, on the border with Kazakhstan, was the scene of rioting in 1997.The likelihood is that, as in Tibet, the authorities will clamp down hard, and that this will fuel anger across a broad swathe of the population.

And the city appointed gang-intervention specialists, some of them reformed gang members themselves, who made it their business to negotiate truces in some of the city's hottest spots, such as South Central and Watts, scene of rioting at the height of the civil rights era in 1965.

Instead, the trio of designers pictured urban London scenes — of riots.