Riot Sentence Examples

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  • Skippy must have read her the riot act.

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  • There is no stopping to read the riot act, no firing over the heads of the mob, in this case.

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  • In 1880 there was a memorable election riot under the guise of an anti-Chinese demonstration.

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  • A scene of riot and disorder was enacted in the Venezuelan capital.

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  • But the discussions in Brandenburg were no more successful than those in Berlin; and at last, on the 5th of December, the king dissolved the assembly, granted a constitution about which it had riot been consulted, and gave orders for the election of a representative chamber.

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  • During the civil wars he lost a large part of his books and manuscripts in a riot, and was compelled to leave Paris.

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  • While at Douai he wrote a scurrilous attack on Queen Elizabeth, which caused a riot among the English students.

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  • The abbey church was partly burnt in 1437, in a riot due to the monks' refusal to recognize the town's chapel of All Hallowes as the parish church, though they had restricted their use of the abbey church for parochial purposes.

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  • A scandalous riot was inaugurated by the members of the Parisian Jockey Club, who interrupted the performance with howls and dog-whistles; and after the third representation the opera was withdrawn.

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  • After a mutiny of soldiers there in 1881, the town was greatly excited by the arrival of an Anglo-French fleet in May 1882, and on the 11th of June a terrible riot and massacre took place, resulting in the death of four hundred Europeans.

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  • Juvenal, in his seventeenth satire, takes as his text a religious riot between the Tentyrites and the neighbouring Ombites, in the course of which an unlucky Ombite was torn to pieces and devoured by the opposite party.

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  • During his absence Arius returned to Alexandria, but even now the people are said to have raised a fierce riot against the heretic.

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  • When his father's abdication was extorted by a popular riot at Aranjuez in March 1808, he ascended the throne - not to lead his people manfully, but to throw himself into the hands of Napoleon, in the fatuous hope that the emperor would support him.

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  • He became a merchant at Athens, and in 1847 his house was burnt down in an anti-Semitic riot.

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  • The acts referred to include those relating to the diseases of animals, destructive insects, explosives, fish conservancy, gas meters, margarine, police, reformatory and industrial schools, riot (damages), sale of food and drugs, weights and measures.

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  • But his Thought had been detained by the angelic powers which had been sent forth from her, and had been subjected by them to every indignity, so that she might riot return on high to her own father, insomuch that she was even enclosed in a human body, and for age after age transmigrated into different female forms, as though from one vessel into another.

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  • Perhaps the most remarkable incident in the life of Theodosius from a personal point of view is the incident of his submission to the reprimands of Ambrose, who dared to rebuke him and refuse to admit him to the Eucharist till he had done public penance for punishing a riot in Thessalonica by a wholesale massacre of the populace.

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  • In 1766 his attempt to force the Madrilenos to adopt the French dress led to a riot during which he did not display much personal courage.

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  • Charles was a thorough despot of the benevolent order, and had been deeply offended by the real or suspected share of the Jesuits in the riot of 1766.

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  • At Bombay, in March 1898, a riot begun by Mahommedan weavers was not suppressed until several Europeans had been fatally injured.

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  • Although shaken by the acquittal of William Hone on a charge of libel the government was supported by parliament; and after the "Manchester massacre" in August 1819 the home secretary thanked the magistrates and soldiers for their share in quelling the riot.

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  • It left behind an empty treasury, an undisciplined army and navy, a people debauched by safe and successful riot.

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  • British and American spies are apparently on the ground inciting riot.

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  • An attempt was made by a party of yeomanry The to arrest a popular agitator, Henry Hunt; the angry Man- mob surged round the horsemen, who found themselves chester powerless; the Riot Act was read, and the I5th Massacre.

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  • We were scared to leave the office whena rabble-rouser started a riot in the town square in the middle of the work day.

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  • When all your plants are blooming at once in a riot of disorganized color, you'll be glad you went with a natural look.

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  • The second downloadable content was Mad Moxxi's Underdome Riot.

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  • The 80s produced some great heavy metal music from righteous bands like Quiet Riot, Scorpions, Skid Row, Dio, Judas Priest and many more.

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  • That night, a anti-war riot broke out in the downtown area of Kent.

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  • Another riot was held that night in which tear gas and police force was used to break it up.

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  • As the name implies, this Very Sexy tankini is a wild riot of tiger strips and dots; its perfect for exploring the wilder side of life!

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  • In what can only be described as an homage to graffiti or street art, the raucous riot of black, yellow and pink is reminiscent of the true power of color.

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  • Here, you'll find bikinis that are a riot of swirls, gingham and even paisley designs.

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  • Many of these prints feature a riot of colors that range from white to pink to blue.

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  • Further, be sure to stay away from busy prints and suits that offer a riot of colors as the pattern might be too busy and might end up making you look heavier than you intended.

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  • The film is a non-stop riot that many cite as one of the funniest films of all time.

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  • Being a walking riot doesn't mean that you can't have a feminine side.

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  • Amidst the riot of color and images, hide the body of the tree frog.

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  • The Kaiser Chiefs won 'Best Album' for Employment at the 2006 NME Awards, and 'I Predict A Riot' was also nominated for 'Best Track'.

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  • They take a tour through 70s punk, like original riot grrls The Slits, past 80s synth and new wave pop, and end up somewhere that incorporates everything into a thoroughly modern sound.

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  • Ra Ra Riot are one of the new breed of indie rockers operating the Arcade Fire vein, but unlike mere pretenders they bring a little something of their own to the table.

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  • This is riot grrrl rock for a new generation.

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  • Paramore, a popular alternative rock band fronted by Hayley Williams, also used the first verse of Leonard Cohen's song as an intro to their song of the same name from their 2008 tour album titled The Final Riot!

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  • Filmed in an airplane hanger, the video shows the band performing the song while a team of police in riot gear assemble in front of them.

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  • The directions are simple and everyone usually finds this game to be a riot.

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  • The camping area was a riot of color, with thousands of bodies wrapped in every tone and shade of tight-fitting Lycra, each an individual fashion statement on a rock-hard frame.

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  • With the erection of Maesyfed into the shire of Radnor in 1536 Rhayader was named as assize-town for the newly formed county in conjunction with New Radnor; but in 1542, on account of a local riot, the town was deprived of this privilege in favour of Presteign.

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  • Bonaventura runs riot in phrases to describe the union with God, and his devotional works were much drawn upon by mystical preachers.

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  • They were demolished, but as no troops were landed immediately a fresh riot and massacre ensued.

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  • With inexhaustible energy he promoted the legal proceedings over the riot in St George's Fields, when a youth named Allen was killed, and exposed the irregularity in the judge's order for the execution of two Spitalfields weavers.

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  • He was prosecuted for riot in connexion with the surrender of the charter of Nottingham in 1682, being tried before Chief Justice Jeffreys, who fined him Soo marks.

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  • The assent of Lord Elgin to the bill provoked in Montreal a riot which ended in the burning of the houses of parliament, and so great was the indignation of the hitherto ultra-loyal Conservative party that many of its most prominent members signed a document favouring annexation to the United States; Macdonald on the other hand took steps, in conjunction with others, to form a British-American league, having for its object the confederation of all the provinces, the strengthening of the connexion with the mother country, and the adoption of a national commercial policy.

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  • When the emperor Louis divided his dominions between his sons in 817, Louis received Bavaria and the neighbouring lands, but did riot undertake the government until 825, when he became involved in war with the Slavonic tribes on his eastern frontier.

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  • He is also commander of the militia or other armed forces of the state, which he can direct to repel in.vasion, or suppress insurrection or riot.

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  • Since then exterior ornamentation and architectural eccentricities have run riot, and the city is now a mixture of the plain one-storey and two-storey buildings of the Portuguese type, and fanciful modern creations, embellished with stucco and overtopping the others by many storeys.

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  • Like the English scholar and statesman, Thomas Wilson, he owed his escape to the riot which broke out on the death of Paul IV.

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  • Stevens, and a committee of residents, to protect the lives and property of American citizens in case of riot or incendiarism.

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  • The calling in of Pinkerton detectives from Chicago and New1690-1691-1691-16 931691-1693York to settle a strike in the Carnegie steel works at Homestead in 1892 precipitated a serious riot, in which about twenty persons were killed.

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  • The enforcement of the conscription created much opposition in various parts of the country, and led to a serious riot in the city of New York on the 13th-16th of July.

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  • But Fredeiick Williams emotional and kindly temperament little fitted him to use the mailed fist; though the riot which broke out in Berlin on the 15th of March was suppressed by the troops with but little bloodshed, the king shrank with horror from the thought of fighting his beloved Berliners, and when on the night of the 18th the fighting was renewed, he entered into negotiation with the insurgents, negotiations that resulted in the withdrawal of the troops from Berlin.

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  • Meanwhile round the hall of the diet a riot had broken out; the Mettersoldiers intervened and blood was shed.

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  • A riot took place in London, and at the bishop's entreaty, the protector, John, duke of Bedford, came back to England.

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  • At the Home Office he proved his capacity as an administrator; he was the first to appoint women as factory inspectors, and he was responsible for opening Trafalgar Square to Labour demonstrations; but he firmly refused to sanction the proposed amnesty for the dynamiters, and he was violently abused by extremists on account of the shooting of two men by the military at the strike riot at Featherstone in August 1893.

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  • The procedure was purely despotic, and at the first attempt to use the liturgy in St Giles's there broke out the famous " Jenny Geddes " riot in the church (23rd of July 1637).

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  • The foremost and highest place, that of the " essential and supernatural " elements of religion, he would have reserved for its moral and spiritual truths, " its chief evidence and chief essence," " the truths to be drawn from the teaching and from the life of Christ," in whose character he did riot hesitate to recognize " the greatest of all miracles."

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  • The Chinese government suppressed the riot, paid 80,000 in compensation and sent a representative to Europe to apologize for the outbreak.

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  • When the tumult of the Rawendis took place he saw clearly that his personal safety was not assured in Hashimiya,' where a riot of the populace could be very dangerous, and his troops were continually exposed to the perverting influence of the fickle and disloyal citizens of Kufa.

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  • The spirit of debate run riot evokes a counter-spirit to order and control it.

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  • Then came the riot of the 10th of June and the invasion of the Tuileries.

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  • I) was riot the shrine where Samuel made his headquarters (I Sam.

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  • In 1377 the reformer appeared before Archbishop Sudbury and Courtenay, when an altercation between the duke and the bishop led to the dispersal of the court, and during the ensuing riot Lancaster probably owed his safety to the good offices of his foe.

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  • The riot of his dithyrambic hymns sounded a strange note of nature amid the conventional music of the Gustavians.

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  • He opposed the Mexican War and slavery, and in 1847 was arrested on the charge of instigating a riot, which resulted in the rescue of several fugitive slaves; his trial, in which he was acquitted, attracted wide attention.

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  • Delhi must have experienced a sense of relief at the departure of its conqueror, whose residence there had been rendered painfully memorable by carnage and riot.

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  • The Revolution.On the 12th of November the shah visited the Majlis, and repeated his pledge, but during December a riot in Teheran developed into a political crisis, in which the shahs troops were employed against the civil population.

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  • Next comes the preservation of order, the protection of all reputable people, and the maintenance of public peace by checking riot and disturbance or noisy demonstration, by enforcing the observance of the thousand and one regulations laid down for the general good.

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  • In April 1506 most of those who resided in Lisbon were massacred during a riot, but throughout the rest of Emanuel's reign they were immune from violence, and were again permitted to emigrate - an opportunity of which the majority took advantage.

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  • The strong anti-slavery sentiment of the city led in 1854 to a serious riot, owing to an apparent attempt to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law.

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  • The events are graphically, if riot always accurately, described; but of the larger causes at work in producing them, of their subtle action and reaction upon each other, and of the general conditions amid which the history worked itself out, he takes no thought at all.

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  • On the 9th of September 1887 Mitchelstown was the scene of a riot in connexion with the Irish Nationalist "plan of campaign."

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  • Instead of dIspersing with their charters, as did many of the peasants, Tyler and his confederates ran riot through London, burning houses and slaying lawyers, officials, foreign merchants and other unpopular persons.

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  • A riot at Edinburgh in 1637 quickly led to national resistance, and when in November 1638 the general assembly at Glasgow set Charless orders at defiance, he was compelled to choose between tame submission and immediate war.

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  • His trial was the signal for riot.

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  • For the riot in Hyde Park led almost directly to a new Reform Act, and to the transfer of power from the middle classes to the masses of the people.

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  • He took part in the unemployed demonstrations of 1887 and was put on trial for his share in the Trafalgar Square riot, but was acquitted.

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  • The 6th of August is locally known as "Bloody Monday"; on this day in 1855 some members of the Know Nothing Party incited a riot that resulted in the loss of several lives and of considerable property.

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  • During Shays's rebellion there was a riot here in September 1786, and on the 25th of January 1787 the insurgent forces under Daniel Shays attacked the arsenal, but were dispersed by the militia under Brigadier-General William Shepard (1737-1817).

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  • The majority of the senate were strongly opposed to the proposals; a justitium (cessation of public business) was proclaimed by the consuls, but Marius and Sulpicius got up a riot, and the consuls, in fear of their lives, withdrew the justitium.

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  • In September 1887 a riot arising out of the " plan of campaign " took place at Mitchelstown.

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  • A riot in 1845, the revolutionary movement of 1848 and the Prussian occupation of 1866 were merely passing shadows.

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  • But this reform, being made by the minister of a hated sovereign, only aided in exasperating public opinion, which was grateful to the parlements in that their remonstrances bad riot always been fruitless.

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  • A palace revolution, headed by Mahommcd, of the Omayyad family, who called himself Al Mahdi Billah (guided by God), and a street riot, upset the power of the liajib at Cordova while he was absent on a raid against Castile.

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  • His curtailment of the privileges granted to the praetorian guard by Heliogabalus provoked their enmity, and he narrowly escaped their vengeance; ultimately, in 228, he was murdered in the palace, in the course of a riot between the soldiers and the mob.

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  • Shots were fired, and a riot occurred in which many Armenian and some Moslem lives were lost.

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  • In spite of precautions this fact became public and provoked the formidable riot styled "The battle of the umbrellas" that broke out the next day.

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  • Public expressions of anger were met with the ' repressive state apparatus ' in the form of riot police.

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  • Being attacked by heavily armed riot police is terrifying.

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  • We passed several double decker busses of riot police on the way, police were all along the roads to Auchterarder.

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  • Nine officers in riot gear burst into his house.

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  • Their terms are vague at best and Erica soon realizes the riot went off half-cocked.

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  • At this point beneficence has run riot and autonomy is paid scant heed.

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  • Both The Riot Act and The Cure at Troy remain inseparable from their immediate political contexts.

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  • The affectations of riot grrl, hello kitty, little dresses, cartoon girls replacing real heroes, started to grate.

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  • It's the double whammy of ' Oh My God ' and ' I Predict A Riot ' which sends things really loopy tho.

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  • Road to Nirvana, a bizarre indictment of the moral morass of Hollywood, is an absolute riot.

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  • They had about 20 cars, a few riot vans, sniffer dogs and a Police helicopter hovering overhead.

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  • A wild and wonderful arrangement that mixes vivid Tropical Bouquet £ 48.00 A riot of hot pinks, vibrant oranges and rich reds.. .

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  • More than half of these protests ended in the deployment of riot police or the army.

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  • I was listening to a radio interview with riot policeman in Berlin this morning.

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  • Against Everton even that might prove the prelude to a riot.

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  • There used to be a near riot, but last year they all attended a formal dress prom at a local hotel.

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  • We also raise the demand of the abolition of specialist police units like the riot squad, whose function is to attack legitimate protests.

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  • In Episode 12, Gripper incited a race riot which Messrs Hopwood, Baxter and Keating broke up.

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  • There was a major race riot in West London, no white people involved.

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  • Officers in riot gear used a battering ram to break in to the ground floor flat.

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  • The current Lord Chief Justice re-kindled hope following his masterly analysis of the Strangeways riot in 1990.

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  • In Tonbridge in 1880 there was a full-scale riot during which eggs, stones and brickbats were thrown at the police.

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  • Let your imagination run riot - the images alone should inspire you.

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  • It was complete chaos and there were several scuffles with the riot Police and the mounted Police just causing more and more problems.

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  • We'd had mass pickets before but we'd only had police with riot shields - nothing nasty.

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  • Please either phone or fax governor Bob Bennett and demand the riot squads are returned to base.

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  • Police were in riot gear and carrying truncheons as protective clothing.

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  • The proprietor applied to the Mayor who exercised himself to quell the tumult by swearing in two constables and reading the Riot Act.

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  • For insanity to run riot there has to be the presence of a depraved and seriously unbalanced mind.

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  • Riot police and razor wire made a stark contrast to the beauty of the stones on a mid summer's morning.

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  • Speaking generally, the exclusion of days of rain and of negative potential comes pretty much to the same thing, and the presence or absence of negative potential is riot infrequently the criterion by reference to which days are rejected or are accepted as normal.

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  • The court accused him of being at the bottom of every popular movement, and saw the "gold of Orleans" as the cause of the Reveillon riot and the taking of the Bastille, as the republicans later saw the "gold of Pitt" in every germ of opposition to themselves.

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  • On the 13th of March 1775, a riot occurred at Westminster between the people of Cumberland (disambiguation)|Cumberland county and the royal authorities, in which two of the people were killed.

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  • On the evening of the signature at Berlin of the clause sanctioning the Austrian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an Irredentist riot took place before the Austrian consulate at Venice.

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  • He advanced into Italy at the head of a licentious and ruffianly soldiery, and Rome became the scene of riot and massacre, gladiatorial shows and extravagant feasting.

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  • In 1850 a reception was given in Faneuil Hall in honour of the English anti-slavery leader, George Thompson, whose reported intention to address Bostonians in 1835 precipitated the riot of that year.

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  • In 1851 the Court House was surrounded with chains to prevent the " rescue " of a slave (Sims) held for rendition under the Fugitive Slave Law; another slave (Shadrach) was released this same year, and in 1854 there was a riot and intense excitement over the rendition of Anthony Burns.

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  • Few things are finer in music or literature than the end of the second act of Die Meistersinger, from the point where Sachs's apprentice begins the riot, to the moment when the watchman, frightened at the silence of the moonlit streets so soon after he has heard all that noise, announces eleven o'clock and bids the folk pray for protection against evil spirits, while the orchestra tells us of the dreams of Walther and Eva and ends by putting poetry even into the pedantic ineptitudes of the malicious Beckmesser.

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  • But in the characterization of their heroes the Celtic imagination runs riot, and the quality of their persons and their acts becomes exaggerated beyond the bounds of any conceivable probability.

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  • Maximilian became prominent in 1607 by executing an imperial mandate against the free city of DonauwOrth, where a religious riot had taken place, and afterwards treating it as his own.

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  • Of the powers vested in the county authority under the Highway Act 1878, the most important are those relating to main roads, which are specially noticed hereafter; (ix.) the tables of fees to be taken by and the costs to be allowed to any inspector, analyst or person holding any office in the county other than the clerk of the peace and the clerks of the justices; (x.) the appointment, removal and determination of salaries of the county treasurer, the county surveyor, the public analysts, any officer under the Explosives Act 1875, and any officers whose remuneration is paid out of the county rate, other than the clerk of the peace and the clerks of the justices; (xi.) the salary of any coroner whose salary is payable out of the county rate, the fees, allowances and disbursements allowed to be paid by any such coroner, and the division of the county into coroners' districts and the assignments of such districts; (xii.) the division of the county into polling districts for the purposes of parliamentary elections, the appointment of the places of election, the places of holding courts for the revision of the lists of voters, and the costs of, and other matters to be done for the registration of parliamentary voters; (xiii.) the execution as local authority of the acts relating to contagious diseases of animals, to destructive insects, to fish conservancy, to wild birds, to weights and measures, and to gas meters, and of the Local Stamp Act i 869; (xiv.) any matters arising under the Riot (Damages) Act 1886.

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  • People riot when convinced that food is unjustly being kept from them.

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  • He is a hypocrite, a rascal who has himself roused the people to riot.

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  • Why should that cause the masses to riot?

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  • This suggestion is similarly applied to the riot film, in order to question its status as information (as revelation of truth).

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  • The Prosecuting Counsel described me as the ringleader of the riot.

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  • These 3 tracks of lo-fi riot grrrl punk rock resemble a grungier version of Helen Love, and mighty fine they are too.

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  • Then I 've Got My Own Problems To Fix manages to make riot grrl sound ethereal.

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  • They were being charged by lines with riot shields.

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  • On March 6th, 2006, South Korean military riot police began direct attacks on the villages.

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  • That brings the total number of members of the Rome riot squad under investigation to 77, of all ranks.

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  • The show is a riot of sassy songs that sweeps audiences along in its breathless wake.

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  • Despite the riot police, sheer weight of numbers prevented the scab bus getting through.

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  • We 'd had mass pickets before but we 'd only had police with riot shields - nothing nasty.

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  • On the local level, a sit-in demonstration held on February 15, 1960 in Chattanooga, led to a race riot.

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  • Early morning road blockades and skirmishes with riot police resulted in a real headache for them and only a handful of activists arrested.

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  • At a further meeting the Riot Act was read and the vicar was smuggled away by the military.

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  • A riot of color changing as do the seasons, the beauty of Perthshire is perhaps at its most stunning in autumn.

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  • She was the sort of riot you want to suppress brutally with water cannon.

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  • They were repelled by police from several forces in riot gear and with truncheons drawn.

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  • The ' fence ' was actually giant iron cages welded together behind which stood line upon line of riot police.

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  • Riot police and razor wire made a stark contrast to the beauty of the stones on a mid summer 's morning.

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  • The riot downtown began to foment nervous feelingsin thelocal residents.

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  • Blazers look especially good paired with jeans or trouser pants, so let your imagination run riot as you shop.

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  • Simply adding a few words to make it say, "I'll never forget the memories I've had in high school - and believe me, I'll try!" can change a sweet quote into a laugh riot.

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  • Black and white wedding cakes are gorgeous creations that focus on the beauty of the wedding cake design rather than a riot of colors.

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  • I was reading them the riot act and they weren't believing it any more than they ever do, except for maybe the first-timers.

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  • Shams-uddin's aggressive character roused the people of Iconium against him, and during a riot in which Jalal-uddin's eldest son, 'Ala-uddin, was killed, he was arrested and probably executed; at least he was no more seen.

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  • On Fructidor 10 and 11 (27th and 28th of August), when the prisoners were removed from Paris, there were tentative efforts at a riot with a view to rescue, but these were easily suppressed.

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  • Owing to the close proximity of powerful opposed religious sects, the modern history of the city is not without its record of riot and bloodshed, as in 1880 and 1886, and in August 1907 serious rioting followed upon a strike of carters; but the prosperity of the city has been happily unaffected.

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  • He was a spectator of the riot of St Giles's, Edinburgh, on the 23rd of July 1637, endeavoured in vain to avoid disaster by concessions, and on the taking of the Covenant perceived that "now all that we have been doing these thirty years past is thrown down at once."' He escaped to Newcastle, was deposed by the assembly on the 4th of December on a variety of ridiculous charges, and died in London on the 26th of November 1639, receiving burial in Westminster Abbey.

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  • Marius, however, unlike Caesar, did not attempt to overturn the oligarchy by means of the army; he used rather such expedients as the constitution seemed to allow, though they had to be backed up by riot and violence.

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  • As a presbyter, he won high reputation by his preaching at Antioch, more especially by his homilies on The Statues, a course of sermons delivered when the citizens were justly alarmed at the prospect of severe measures being taken against them by the emperor Theodosius, whose statues had been demolished in a riot.

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  • Two years later there was a serious riot against the increase of copyhold.

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  • They began with a riot between the nobles and the burghers, but ended in an antiSpanish movement; and while the inhabitants called The rei n the French, the Spaniards, who could not crush the rising, called in the Dutch.

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  • According to him the word was first used on the 27th of December 1641 by a disbanded officer named David Hide, who during a riot is reported to have drawn his sword and said he would "cut the throat of those round-headed dogs that bawled against bishops."

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  • Thus Belgium, which is a neutralized state, riot only has an army but has fortifications, although by the treaties of 1831 and 1839 she was recognized as a " perpetually neutral state, bound to observe the same neutrality with reference to other states."

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  • Adamson (Perth, 1638) are the lines "For what we do presage is riot in grosse, For we are brethren of the Rosie Crosse; We have the Mason Word and second sight, Things for to come we can fortell aright."

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  • Professing to be quite satisfied with this arrangement, he pompously announced that Egypt was no longer in Africa, but a part of Europe; but before seven months had passed he found his constitutional position intolerable, got rid of his irksome cabinet by means of a secretly-organized military riot in Cairo, and reverted to his old autocratic methods of government.

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  • His brother and deputy was killed in a serious riot, and an accusation was laid against Menelaus before Antiochus.

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  • In any case he does not seem to have remained in Paris, although in the riot of the 1st Prairial some of the insurgents proclaimed him mayor.

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  • This revolution was followed by a riot, in which John de Witt and his brother Cornelius were murdered by the mob at the Hague.

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  • This enraged the Roman populace; a riot broke out on the 13th of January 1793, and Bassville, who was driving with his family to the Corso, was dragged from his carriage and so roughly handled that he died.

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  • You're a riot, Sofi.

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  • In that year the first plot against the Viscontian rule, hatched by the twelve and the Salimbeni and fomented by the Florentines, was violently repressed, and caused the twelve to be again driven from office; but in the following year a special balia, created in consequence of that riot, annulled the ducal suzerainty and restored the liberties of Siena.

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  • The centre of disturbance was the Pullman strike at Chicago, whence the disorder extended to the Pacific coast, causing riot and bloodshed in many places.

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  • Baltimore was the scene of a bloody riot as the first Northern regiment (6th Mass.) passed through on its way to Washington on the 19th of April, and, until troops could be spared to protect the railway through Maryland, all reinforcements for the national capital had to be brought up to Annapolis by sea.

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  • They made it the occasion for an attack on the Jesuits; even in 1869 there had been almost a riot in Berlin when a chapel belonging to a religious order was opened thee.

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  • The conflict over the trial led to a violent quarrel with the Londoners, and a riot in the city during which John was in danger of his life from the angry citizens.

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  • In Jewish apocalypses especially, the imagination ran riot on the rank, classes and names of angels; and such works as the various books of Enoch and Deut.

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  • The best testimony for the behaviour of Orleans during this summer is the testimony of an English lady, Mrs Grace Dalrymple Elliott, who shared his heart with the comtesse de Buffon, and from which it is absolutely certain that at the time of the riot of the 12th of July he was on a fishing excursion, and was rudely treated by the king on the next day when going to offer him his services.

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  • As the deed was not destroyed, but is in existence now, it is to be presumed that the terms of it were, riot fulfilled; but the fact that such a contract should have been drawn up by Napier himself affords a singular illustration of the state of society and the kind of events in the midst of which logarithms had their birth.

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  • The government, however, could not make up their minds what course to pursue, and by allowing things to drift ended by converting a popular riot into a national revolt.

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