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If the network threatened to pull the plug on a given cable operator over fee negotiations, sports-mad subscribers would practically riot in the streets!

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

The designer Maruti Evans illustrates the contrast effectively, the icy marble and barren trees of Sicilia transformed into a riot of colorful flora.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Carl Reiner similarly declared: “I saw what I thought was the funniest ad-libbed thing I had ever seen. It was a riot, and we never stopped laughing.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

One young woman calmly reapplied her lipstick in front of a line of riot police.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

When the riot finally ended, Chicagoans were left in a state of shock.

From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler

At the end of her sentencing, Judge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke praised the bravery of the hundreds of police officers who were working on the night of the riots.

From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026

“There were demonstrations in the streets, anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, drug revolutions, sex revolutions, riots, race riots. So we thought, what a good time to go out and do Black and white comedy.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

The court heard the operation to police the riots had cost South Wales Police "in excess of £1m" and the clean-up had cost Cardiff council £28,515.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

Indeed, what now looks like nightly riots began with reports of maggot-infested and spoiled food.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026

I crossed the street to avoid the place where I’d stood when I heard about Dr. King, when the riots started.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon

When prisoners rioted over the conditions, their eloquent spokesman Jones was extensively quoted in the press, catching the attention of a church leader.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025

Dunn said officers wanted acknowledgment for those members of law enforcement who were present at the insurrection, as well as accountability from those who rioted.

From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2025

Hearst’s desperate father, publisher of the San Francisco Examiner, spent $2 million on a food giveaway, and crowds rioted as food was flung from trucks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2024

In October 1962, federal marshals escorted Meredith as he enrolled as the first Black student at the University of Mississippi, while white people rioted on the Oxford campus.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 26, 2023

Austria-Hungary, threatened with a complete breakdown of order as people in the cities starved and rioted, signed an armistice agreement on November 3.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

It has so far arrested 39 people in connection with the rioting.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026

"Our officers have a role to facilitate and accommodate peaceful protest," he said, while cautioning against a repeat of widespread anti-immigrant rioting last June.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

They would be elderly people rioting, but they would still riot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026

Recent protests and rioting by detainees deepened the disorder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026

She was glad, too, to have time to pull her rioting thoughts together.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson