Sentence examples for serious rioting from inspiring English sources

Fans then headed downtown, where they engaged in more serious rioting.

Further elections, held in June, were marked by serious rioting and heavy casualties.

Serious rioting ensued and international donors later cut vital aid to the impoverished islands.

The police said a protest in Protestant Cambrai Street had been peaceful but quickly degenerated into serious rioting.

His domestic policy was not sufficiently elastic to avoid serious rioting, which broke out in 1898; nor was he sufficiently forceful in putting down an incipient Socialist revolution.

Last June, serious rioting broke out in central Vancouver, Canada, after the defeat of the hometown Canucks in the National Hockey League playoffs.

Its last serious riot was less than three years ago.

In 1766 a serious riot in Madrid revealed some of the difficulties confronting the reformers.

Tibet's capital Lhasa suffered from serious riots in March 2008, which were also followed by a heavy government crackdown.

If it comes, it does through the women millworkers, who precipitated two serious riots in Belfast in other days.

His dismissal in 1986 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev caused the first serious riots of the 1980s in the Soviet Union.