However, unlike earlier riots, little damage was done to the theatre and the whole affair was characterised by a "spirit of fun".

The 1969 riots occurred not long after the earlier communal riots in 1964.

In fact, it was compared at the time to analogous earlier riots in Bristol and Manchester.

They were some of the earliest collegiate sports-related riots in the United States.

The riots in the long run was seen as possessing distinctive characteristics which differentiated from earlier riots.

He was charged with having participated in the earlier riots which had led to the fall of the Rini government.

There were still some tourists in town, and I didn't much want a repeat of the earlier riot.

Police admitted later that they did not know if it had been 100 or only 25 out of the arrested who were suspects in the earlier riot.

Inexcusable as those earlier riots were, they at least had a measure of political content: the changes against which the protesters bellowed are indeed revolutionary.

Five weeks after the match, one of cricket's early riots took place and led to the cancellation of the return match.