"riot" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The riots had swept the country during January, and continued throughout February, resulting in dozens of deaths.
- In response to these decisions, mushrooming riots swept across Beirut resulting in heavy clashes between Hezbollah and the majority, afterwards Hezbollah militants invaded and took control of western Beirut.
- As we saw in East New York and would again and again in those years when riots swept our nation's cities, very few ministers, city councilmen or businessmen could help at all.
- At least five people were reported killed Tuesday as riots swept the southern Yugoslav province of Kosovo, and Belgrade television said the situation was approaching civil war.
- The attack came on what is regarded as the 18th anniversary of the civil war that has wracked this country since July 24, 1983, when anti-Tamil riots swept Colombo, the capital of this majority Sinhalese nation.
- Massive riots swept a number of cities still held by the Light and the "re-emergence of the peace faction" is mentioned, apparently a group demanding negotiations with the Forsaken.
- A few days after Mr Hani's murder, while riots swept the country, he and four comrades met secretly to form a 'Committee of Generals' whose aim would be to resist majority rule.
- More than three months after huge riots swept the city, the back lanes of Glodok, Jakarta's Chinatown, are still strewn with ash and bricks and bits of broken glass.
- After anti-Tamil riots swept Colombo in 1983 and Sinhalese mobs killed hundreds of Tamils, there was an exodus of Tamils from the country.
- Ever since anti-Chinese riots swept through the Tibetan Plateau in March 2008, the ethnically Tibetan areas of China have been on a knife-edge, activists groups report.
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