Sentence examples for vicious riots from inspiring English sources

In 1985, this north London housing estate was the site of what the police called, "the most vicious riots ever seen on the mainland".

In Hackney last weekend, a borough which a year ago was on the brink of vicious riots, people filled the streets not to stone policemen but to high-five them.

President Mwai Kibaki's victory looked rigged, and vicious riots and looting were sweeping the country.

Six months after the end of WWll, and before Israel was established, vicious riots broke out in Egypt and Libya - the latter, incited by anti-Jewish hatred, claimed more than 130 lives.

There are no open signs of protest, of the sort that presaged vicious rioting in Tibet in March.

Mr Bacher duly confesses to having deceived many old friends, but the last of the rebel tours set off such vicious rioting among black South Africans that he experienced a sort of Damascene conversion to multi-racial cricket.

I watched the vicious riot that erupted at the end of the march when protesters were banned from entering Belfast city centre.

In 2009, almost 200 died in vicious ethnic riots in its capital, Ürümqi.

Racial tension exploded in vicious race riots in 1981 and again in 1985.

Vicious race riots this week in Xinjiang's capital, Urumqi, have caused the deaths of over 150 people and shown just what a hash the regime has made of fostering stability.The bloodiest known incident of unrest in China since the massacre that ended the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 embarrassed China's president, Hu Jintao, into skipping the G8 summit in Italy.

Ms. Greenidge said that although Weeksville was widely known as a safe haven for African-Americans, and many blacks from Manhattan relocated there after the vicious draft riots of 1863, there was no documentation to confirm that it was a stop on the Underground Railroad.