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    1. They were sort of inspired by riot grrl bands like Bikini Kill, Bratmobile, and Voodoo Queens


    2. ‘Do you want me to organise something to eat?’ I suggested, my imagination running riot on the subject of this idea of his


    3. The selfish child in me ran riot


    4. I’ve discovered that he lives in a house up by the quarry on the western boundaries of the village – I’ve not seen it but he says there are fantastic views over the village from his bedroom window … I contemplate what it would be like to find out … then read myself the riot act for being so … so … optimistic


    5. My thoughts ran riot, one after another, disjointed, becoming a twisted nightmare sequence of unrelated rants


    6. would cause a riot in the Arndale


    7. and a riot squad that is one off duty policewoman


    8. hot spots, a riot in the urban jungle,


    9. In fact, under the strains of the moment and the inevitable riot of questions and counselling in the immediate aftermath of the alleged attack, they had never even spoken with one another


    10. With his battered old shin pads tucked safely inside his knee length socks, he ran riot through every level of schoolboy and junior football, scoring record numbers of goals at every age

    11. Along the length of his left leg the great artists wove images and colours in a collage, in a riot of tone and line, just as if the contestant were a kaleidoscope


    12. Their evenings were a riot of dancing, laughing and the after hours bliss of the marital bed, and after all of this the happy couple even found time to sit quietly as the dawn rose and talk of life, love and their plans for the future


    13. the biggest, toughest and burliest member of the police riot squad


    14. than being a riot of the usual suspects, at least as portrayed in the


    15. strains of the moment and the inevitable riot of questions and


    16. colours in a collage, in a riot of tone and line, just as if the


    17. images of riot and unrest, of the dispossessed and the establishment


    18. a riot of dancing, laughing and the after hours bliss of the marital


    19. ‘Just as well I wore something sensible tonight then – I can wear this lot to the office without causing a riot


    20. ” My father thought it was a riot and so did I

    21. tattered morale of his men flutter in the wind with the “click-clack” of plastic riot shields knocking


    22. ” And that “something must be done before the Free Lands are in riot


    23. Oscar read Nelson the riot act


    24. Listened for a few minutes as she read me the riot act


    25. So we radioed the local Riot Unit, who used their water cannon to disperse the fighters while we blocked the street and cheered them on


    26. Horses were never used for riot control in my time, as the horse would have died in the first five minutes and then would have been eaten by the rioters soon thereafter


    27. This subject is discussed more thoroughly in the Second Book where we talk about riot duty


    28. The Author in Tokoza on riot duty


    29. *It says quite a lot because those guys could throw stones with the best in the world and had years of practise with SAP Riot Units to do just that


    30. At the Riot Course I had the exceedingly bad luck to be in Charlie Camp which I still hate for we were treated unfairly and had a horrible time

    31. As the years went on the Riot Units Casspirs windows had a thick wire mesh around to protect it against stones


    32. In my time Riot Unit 19 became a roving unit to go to any place in South Africa which needed support


    33. Despite the dedicated Units, the need for men was always great and the generals decided every policeman must be trained in riot duty which made good sense


    34. The training dealt with tear-gas quite a lot, and the specialist weapons used only by Riot Units


    35. The Nationalist Parliament who enabled the laws which caused the ruckus? Absolutely! Who else? It is logical that without the silly laws the SAP would not have been at the riot to begin with


    36. The SAP Riot Units organised themselves in platoons and companies as would any Army Regiment but without the traditions which went with an Army Regiment


    37. Soon the Riot Units became infamous for subduing protests using considerable violence


    38. This happened seven years before I was even born but we learned about it, or our version rather which is different from the Liberation Movement's during our riot course at Maleoskop


    39. They were not equipped with dedicated riot gear having had Sten submachine guns,


    40. Hence you may take for granted that fire discipline amongst the Riot Units were of the highest standards

    41. Most of the time the SAP Riot Units arrived very early (long before the court open at 9am), and formed a cordon around the court with barbed wire


    42. How come you ask for that is not the popular myth? Simply note how a Riot Unit section of ten men were armed in the 1980s


    43. Thus it seems that the SAP, in later years, during the 1980s, equipped their Riot Units with ineffective weapons to kill humans with and that concludes my point


    44. By the 1980s every Riot Unit had a video camera to record events as the SAP was not only sued by my future law firm but also criminally investigated all the time


    45. The Author in Tokoza on riot duty 1989


    46. Joe could have caused to them to riot had he wished to do so, they were that excited


    47. For example the Police Riot Units was issued video cameras to record the rioters for evidential purposes


    48. They tried and succeeded to create much internal unrest which was suppressed by the SAP COIN Riot Units


    49. ) Two inmates were killed by guards in a riot at Tule Lake camp


    50. The local police reinforced by the riot squads from London and Glasgow prepared to stand their ground














































    1. Turned out not be the case, for the second day we were there, leftist students at the local National University rioted in protest of our presence, throwing a lot of rocks and injuring a good number of my shipmates


    2. Cuban-American crowds rioted, battling police


    3. Pilot knew all too well that he Jews had a propensity to riot, and had rioted before


    4. But the nervous excitement that rioted through his blood stimulated him to Herculean efforts


    5. That was when the Jewish population rioted and attacked the Romans and other non-Jews in Jerusalem


    6. and pumpkin rioted, the mielies stood tall from the recent rain


    7. Then as now, TV did not like anti-war protesters, nor any other sort of protesters, unless they rioted


    8. When the jihadi driven amongst the Indian Musalmans, in lieu of the Babri debris, turned some of Bombay’s buildings into rubble, the equally bigoted Shiv Sainiks rioted to pay them back with Islamic body bags


    9. It came as no surprise that blacks had rioted on such a horrific level


    10. A voice kept remarking that Prime Ministers and Viceroys spoke in the Reichstag; entered Lahore; said that the Emperor travelled; in Milan they rioted; said there were rumours in Vienna; said that the Ambassador at Constantinople had audience with the Sultan; the fleet was at Gibraltar

    11. There was also a large Chamber call’d the Tangier, where the miserable Debtors were kept (only distinguish’d from the Felons by the Fact that they wore no Irons), another Chamber call’d the High Hall, which was use’d for Recreation, and a stinking dark Cellar where intoxicating Liquors were sold, and Multitudes of Prisoners rioted merrily, inflam’d by what was doubtless tainted Gin (and which, you may be sure, they paid dear for)


    12. The people rioted, the troops refused to obey the tsar’s orders, and the whole country seemed likely to collapse


    13. De Gaulle saw France through the boom years of the sixties but he was badly thrown when French students rioted in 1968 and resigned the following year


    14. We rioted toward the studio late in the afternoon


    1. That put a stop to the rioting


    2. Opponents agreed; hardly anyone wanted the streets filled with rioting protesters, but peaceful demonstrations should not be impeded with brute force


    3. A good idea to be sure, but it also meant that white males in South Africa cannot legally be hired into 97% of available jobs, which simply means whites are not employable, and since skill plays no role in hiring, the whole country’s infrastructure is rapidly collapsing causing widespread rioting


    4. This led to much rioting and even murder and certainly police killings of the rioters


    5. (This is not to say such rioting was not popular


    6. The rioting farmers prevented hospitals from receiving blood, and doctors from getting to work with their silliness


    7. It wouldn‘t be very sporting on my part were I to gloat over the recent rioting in France‘s Muslim Communities


    8. Another cartoon depicted senior police as snails, slow to investigate an indigenous death in custody on Palm Island, which resulted in rioting that burnt down the only police station, barracks and court house on the island


    9. Incidentally, a year after the disaster, rioting and looting is still going on


    10. [And other sheep I saw rioting and luxuriating in one place but not however leaping about

    11. that were rioting and luxuriating but not leaping; and he cast them into a precipitous place full of this ties and thorns so that it was impossible to extricate the sheep from the thorns and thistles; but they were completely entangled amongst them


    12. Heaven and Earth shall pass away; but my words shall not pass away and be diligent to yourselves in case at any time your hearts be overcharged with rioting and drunkenness and cares of this life and so that day comes on you as unaware; because as a snare shall it come on all those who dwell on the face of the whole Earth; Therefore watch and pray always so that you may be counted as worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass and to stand before the Son of Man


    13. depression; 11 hertz caused agitation and rioting; 8 hertz created feelings of


    14. Scrolling text jolts your attention, an aging stage actor’s speech on the anniversary of the riots surrounding piracy hearings in the Morocco sparks more rioting


    15. The police arrived late, that is why they were neither able to save any of the society’s residents nor their own police officer who bravely grappled with the rioting mob alone


    16. There’s been rioting between men and women


    17. Julie looked up at Will with worry rioting across her face


    18. Is that their science? Is that their solution, genocide of 90% of the earth’s population? By bankrupting the US, chaos would descend upon the world, with mass starvation, rioting and looting


    19. These rioting people were started attacking the police forces and the security forces


    20. Still the rioting people were in the entire area

    21. “The authorities here, and across the water, have enough evidence against most of the terrorist leadership, from both sides, to convince anyone of their involvement in murder, explosions, rioting and no end of other criminal activity


    22. But unlike in the times gone by, led by the Sangh Parivar, the Gujarati Hindu retaliation that followed accounted for 790 Musalmans (falsified by the Congress chamchas in the TV circuit as 2000-odd to politically hurt the irrepressible Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of the State) in which rioting 254 Hindus too were dead, which fact was equally glossed over by the pseudo-secular media


    23. he is in direct personal contact with those involved in the rioting in


    24. Terrorism, like rioting, is undoubtedly inhuman and can have no justification, but as mentioned earlier, it is by no means a Muslim monopoly (the popular statement All Muslims are not terrorists but all terrorists are Muslims is indeed the biggest lie) and several injustices against Muslims in different parts of the world or geopolitical strategies of big powers like the United States of America have led to terrorism by Muslims (just like the attack on the S-16 coach in Godhara or the killing of Swami Laxmidanda Saraswati sparked off rioting by Hindus against Muslims and Christians in Gujarat and Odisha respectively) and it has not been just out of general intolerance of other religious communities


    25. He told them there was no more rioting in the streets


    26. You cannot stop us from rioting,” replied Abhay Pratap to me


    27. I consider it a monstrous ugly thing to have particles of pig rioting up and down my veins, turning into brains, coloring my thoughts, becoming a very part of my body


    28. It is still unknown whether the perpetrators were rioting in response to the disease, or as a result of being infected with it


    29. “Tell me your secrets, and I’ll tell you mine,” she said, trying to sound calm, despite the rioting inside


    30. The Committee had already discussed matters concerning the operations of the UK Border Agency and, in a much lengthier session, they explored the causes of and response to the recent rioting

    31. favouritism, rioting and bloodletting


    32. As we already know the Greeks are protesting, demonstrating, rioting and rebelling against the harsh austerity measures like never before


    33. Every day public buildings are attacked, crippling public strikes bring the country to a stand still, and incessant rioting has turned the major cities into war zones


    34. Mercifully the rioting never did spread to his neighbourhood


    35. Recently there had been fresh outbreaks of rioting in Athens


    36. As if these new bouts of rioting weren’t enough to contend with, Greece was embroiled in bitter political row with Britain


    37. The luggage-loading platform has been moved outside the station, and rioting passengers have to be ordered to the correct check-in line or directed to the right bus


    38. Faced with the threat of another oil embargo by the Arabs and with rioting in the streets by every minority whose members had been deported from this country, who collectively made up the majority of Americans, President Quaid finally acted


    39. A poll tax she advocated led to widespread rioting, and she was deeply mistrustful of Britain’s participation in the European Union, thinking it eroded its power


    40. Our founders recognized that civil unrest with widespread rioting, looting, and violence would undermine the authority of the government and shake the confidence of the populace

    41. Also, I delighted much in rioting, revelling, drinking, swearing, lying, uncleanness, Sabbath-breaking, and what not, that tended to destroy the soul


    42. Most of the wounded during the two days of rioting had been taken away already by their friends and relations, but several figures could be seen sitting up balancing their bandaged heads in time to the music


    43. Corbett have paraded the entire population of the Eudora Quarters in front of you, one after the other accusing these citizens of Eudora of murder, rioting in the streets, and general mayhem—well, sir, that’s because that is exactly what they’ve done


    44. Washington to dinner at the White House in 1901, angry rioting broke out and 34 people were killed


    45. On 13 April 1919, with rioting sweeping through Punjab province (by no means did all Indians follow Gandhi’s line of non-violence), British General Reginald Dyer decided to use shock tactics to restore order


    46. By 1973 civil war seemed around the corner, with students and workers rioting against the military government


    47. The birds were fairly rioting by this time


    48. ‘A helpless girl overwhelmed with grief, left to the mercy of coarse, rioting peasants! And what a strange fate sent me here! What gentleness and nobility there are in her features and expression!’ thought he as he looked at her and listened to her timid story


    49. ‘What have you been about? Eh? The peasants are rioting, and you can’t manage them? You’re a traitor youself! I know you


    50. Some talked about the Moscow militia which, preceded by the clergy, would go to the Three Hills; others whispered that Augustin had been forbidden to leave, that traitors had been seized, that the peasants were rioting and robbing people on their way from Moscow, and so on














    1. You may have heard about riots several


    2. on after the Godhra news and the riots


    3. They just seemed to keep it all to themselves though all of these years, you know? I know I heard the stories of violence, of riots after the war


    4. intended to stop prison riots


    5. It frequently just erupted into brawls or riots


    6. *It is ironic that riots in South Africa did not stop with freedom in 1994


    7. Guess who are tasked with stopping the riots? And who are blamed for every one of the rioters shot dead, and will be now and forever in the future? It seems that we have learned nothing from history


    8. They did not disappoint us being much more hardened and experienced in riots than us


    9. Peaceful rallies normally turned into riots when we or the journalists arrived on the scene


    10. Each day cauldrons of soup were made, but distribution led to fierce riots, in which weak buffeted with strong in a struggle for the precious decoction that was exhausted before one-fiftieth of the crowd had been served

    11. Even better than anything they have experienced in last year's f riots in Soweto


    12. In fact, there is also no other place where the SAP suffered more damage to its reputation as during the riots or at the riots


    13. On the other hand, with riots, it is the normal Joe on the street against the country's police


    14. they approved with roars of applause! Unquestionably the Nationalists were wrong if they thought the riots were not popular


    15. Almost all the riots were caused by the Apartheid laws which makes parliament ultimately responsible


    16. They are in such a mess that the ordinary Joe is rising up in riots to protest


    17. in those days you could fail a grade and many did because of the riots


    18. In our own riots I heard of cases where crowds attacked the SAP whilst hiding behind paper boxes thinking it will stop the bullets since the witch doctor said it would


    19. There existed a law (still on the books), which stated that no demonstrations (riots) were to be held closer than one hundred and fifty meters from any court of law


    20. Now this brings us to a point which no-one remembers today; but the facts are that the SAP used less force as the years went on and the riots increased

    21. Yes, all had service pistols but most saw it as a last weapon and it was seldom used in riots


    22. Most definitely not, and with riots going on for more than fifty years there will always be a small percentage of atrocities


    23. All Riots Casspirs had a silly (non-bulletproof) roof to stop incendiary bombs (and stones) which made me duck under them all the time


    24. Many conservatives and supporters of American empire blamed Panamanian Commander Omar Torrijos for deaths in the riots because of his opposition to US control of the canal


    25. In the Civil War draft riots in New York City, Irish mobs targeted Blacks as well as draft authorities


    26. The Panama Canal was returned, undoing an injustice of almost 80 years and likely preventing further deaths from riots or terrorism against the canal


    27. Riots and shootings gripped the city for days and footage of the carnage appeared on television worldwide


    28. But right now with riots and explosions erupting outside and rocket attacks smashing apart the building things did not look promising at all


    29. Uprisings, little revolts, small riots


    30. All Union led riots are Leftist

    31. the Slum riots on television, but the images had been softened


    32. This fear of scarcity causes unrest, riots, and even war, which enables


    33. Those memories you have, of the riots, world wars, violence upon each other and all the other things in your history are


    34. The liberalism of yesterday, as it inexorably mutated from campus riots to Civil War and betrayal of America, has itself set the table for the Tea Party sociofascistic firestorm that now lowers upon it, massive and unrelenting


    35. Desperately, I called my boss, the GC, and told him that my car had been stolen during the riots, and that as soon as the police let me reclaim it, I would drive to work


    36. While not strictly related to the above drinking story, the mention of the riots during the Democratic convention reminded me of how strange it felt to drive back to South Shore along either Lake Shore Drive or Stoney Island and see rows of tanks, armored personnel carriers, and tents stretching from Jackson Park to Grant Park to accommodate the National Guard and Army troops who were there to “protect” the citizenry


    37. I was forced to park my car in town and walk up Telegraph Avenue in a suit and tie in the midst of Mario Savio’s Free Speech Movement’s near-daily riots


    38. riots in the streets, work stoppages, and transportation walk-outs


    39. that would have caused riots in colonial America, perhaps it’s time we asked ourselves the question: Would they be proud of us?


    40. But I’m glad we went to the Festival that year, though, because riots caused performance cancellations the following year

    41. This time, however, the news was talking about the riots in Russia


    42. It was spring; as the days lengthened, young men murmured, talked more than they should and every now and again riots would need to be quelled


    43. They are scared that if you do not, there will be anarchy and riots in the streets


    44. There were Hindu-Muslim riots in September 1924 in Lucknow


    45. On 16 August 1946, Jinnah declared direct action day and violent riots broke out with thousands dying all over the country


    46. Scrolling text jolts your attention, an aging stage actor’s speech on the anniversary of the riots surrounding piracy hearings in the Morocco sparks more rioting


    47. The riots have begun


    48. Riots, looting, end of the world, rape in the streets


    49. ―We can expect riots in the first year, beginning with the Earth Orbit colonies then


    50. ‘The truth, if there is ever any truth, has been modified by myths concocted by the unbroken line of Mages to quell riots and maintain order














































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    Synonyms for "riot"

    bacchanal bacchanalia debauch debauchery drunken revelry orgy riot saturnalia public violence belly laugh howler scream sidesplitter thigh-slapper wow rioting carouse roister revelry festivity uproar commotion disorder melee tumult confusion altercation disturbance brawl revolt rebel fight rollick skylark revel

    "riot" definitions

    a public act of violence by an unruly mob


    a state of disorder involving group violence


    a joke that seems extremely funny


    a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity


    take part in a riot; disturb the public peace by engaging in a riot


    engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking