Sentence examples for wake of rioting from inspiring English sources

Set up in the wake of rioting in 2005 in the heavily immigrant banlieues, this is designed to promote a fresh image of France on the big screen.Whether all such films will prosper commercially remains to be seen.

Hugh Robertson, the Minister for the Olympics, spent last night assuring representatives from 200 countries that security plans for next year's Games will prove adequate in the wake of rioting across London and in areas around the main Olympic Park.

Among the tracks on "Hitnrun Phase Two" is "Baltimore," the call for peace and better understanding that he released in the wake of rioting sparked by racial clashes in that city.

It ended when he was forced to resign in June 1992, after 14 years as chief, in the wake of riots that followed the acquittal of four police officers in the highly publicized beating of Rodney King.

In 1967, in the wake of riots that had scorched several American cities, Lyndon B. Johnson authorized the creation of the Kerner Commission, to examine the roots of the conflicts.

She called a recent report by a Presidential task force that was appointed in the wake of riots over the police shooting of Michael Brown, in Ferguson, Missouri, last year, "a good place to start".

Pre- and post-election violence is usually seen as a phenomenon of Middle Eastern and African countries, yet in the wake of riots in Ferguson and other cities, Richardson believes America is playing with fire.

Whoever wins, the style of political leadership in Los Angeles, the nation's second-most populous city behind New York City, will change markedly from that of Mr. Riordan, a lawyer and a businessman who had never run for office but won the mayoralty in the wake of riots and a recession eight years ago on the pledge that he was "tough enough to turn L.A. around".

"If the French all leave, I will have no job," Mr. Nguessam said as he stood a lonely watch over the pillaged remains last week, in the wake of riots that followed an airstrike on French peacekeepers and brought this country to the brink of war.

British troops remained on edge today in the wake of riots that shook this city on Saturday and Sunday, and some police and some military and civil officials said there could be more unrest if fuel supplies and electric service did not improve quickly.

It comes in the wake of riots across England this summer - the country's worst for three decades.