The winner, a history professor named Laurent Gbagbo, from the cocoa region, took office amid riots, during which his supporters killed hundreds of Ouattara's primarily Muslim followers.

Amid sudden hyperinflation and riots, Governor Carlos Menem exhorted voters in May 1989 that "following me will not disappoint you!"

Keaten, Jamey Associated Press (3 November 2005), "French residents can only watch amid riots"

Yet your fabrication came two hundred years after the Golden Age collapsed amid riots, terrorism, and despair.

De la Rúa, however, could not manage an economic crisis and finally resigned on December 21, 2001, amid violent riots.

In 1946, the Allied occupation force left Iceland, which formally became a member of NATO on 30 March 1949, amid domestic controversy and riots.

But all this took place amid bloody riots in the Forum Romanum, and the young husband of Sulla's daughter, Cornelia Sulla, was killed.

On 20 December, amid violent demonstrations, looting and riots in the major Argentine cities, President De la Rúa resigned.

When Mr. Suharto stepped down last May amid fierce riots and street protests, the upheaval seemed to take down his wealthiest crony as well.

The mistrust of Washington began to climb in the late 1960's, amid riots, assassinations and the Vietnam war, and fed the anti-government politics of the Reagan era.