Sentence examples for triggered the rioting from inspiring English sources

Since then Mr. O'Neill has faced two contradictory criticisms: Some say he waited too long to shut off the spigot, others say that the decision to cut the I.M.F.'s aid triggered the rioting that has caused violence and a few deaths.

After an emergency cabinet meeting this week, Dominique de Villepin, his prime minister, declared a state of emergency, invoking a 1955 law that allows a curfew to be imposed in troubled areas and which with unfortunate symbolism dates from the war in Algeria.Related items France Francee's failureNov 10th 2005 Charlemagne: Minority reportsNov 10th 2005Two incidents triggered the rioting.

There are several accounts of what triggered the rioting.

The French press denounced the attitude of the police, which lied about the deaths of the two young kids which triggered the riots.

Almost two years after mobs burned down 100 Christian homes in Lahore the only person behind bars is the man whose alleged blasphemy triggered the riots.

A local journalist may have triggered the riots by writing that, were he alive, the Prophet Muhammad might have married one of the contestants, but even without that, the fundamentalists might have found another excuse.

Duggan getting shot triggered the riots, but it didn't cause them.

So Sau Chung, veteran campaigner (now a monk), whose hunger strike against Star Ferry fare increases triggered the riots in 1966, came by to lend his support.

The deaths triggered the worst rioting in France for 40 years and forced the government to declare a state of emergency.

This triggered the worst riots in modern English history.

One of the most serious was the case of Mark Duggan, the young man whose shooting triggered the English riots in August.