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Example sentences for: riots

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Riots broke out in 1968, and British troops had to be called in to restore order.
In 1967 Penang was hit by serious riots, which highlighted the fact that political and social harmony could not be taken for granted.
The Watts riots were sinisterly echoed in the Los Angeles riots of 1992, when the same area of South-Central L.A. was ravaged by violence in response to the acquittal of white police officers who were captured on videotape beating a black resident.
It'll accomplish what the Los Angeles riots and all the striking unions and political protests in the world failed to do: It'll bring on a revolution.
In macho prose, with obsessive reporting, Davis all but predicted the date and street address of the 1992 riots.