There was at first considerable controversy over claims, which resulted in occasional riots, but aside from this the neighborhood had generally been very peaceable.

Work sites were plagued with frequent strikes and occasional riots (including several fatalities) during this period.

There are also occasional small riots between rival groups of youths in the central and eastern areas of Freetown.

This led to occasional riots, with the police and military having to intervene to calm down the situation.

Through the years, soccer has been plagued by occasional riots and lately by hooliganism in the streets.

There were occasional riots and societies of Woolcombers and Weavers were formed in an effort to protect jobs and wages.

Recent defectors, whose stories are sometimes enhanced by South Korea's intelligence agencies, report growing food shortages, occasional riots and continued repression.

Over the years, Mysore became well known as a centre for tourism; the city remained largely peaceful, except for occasional riots related to the Kaveri river water dispute.

Mexican rural folk stubbornly undermined these high-class flirtations with foreign ideas by creatively disregarding them culturally, as well as by staging the occasional riot.

And what's an occasional riot?