food riot

collocation in English

meaningsoffoodandriot

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food
noun[C or U]
uk
/fuːd/us
/fuːd/
something that people and animals eat, or plants absorb, to keep ...
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riot
noun
uk
/ˈraɪ.ət/us
/ˈraɪ.ət/
an occasion when a large number of people behave in a noisy, violent, and uncontrolled way in public, often as ...
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(Definition offoodandriotfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffood riot

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A campusfoodriotprevents them from getting her to the hospital in time, and they have to help deliver her baby in the classroom.
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The appearance of a bread wagon sparked afoodriot.
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Communist-inspired demonstrations and food riots in 1932 were large, persistent and unnerving to authorities.
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Already there have been violent food riots across the world as desperate hungry people attack grain silos and supermarkets.
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In such circumstances food riots cannot be ruled out.
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Indeed, in many countries, we have seen food riots and political instability as a result of the spike in food prices.
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I suggest that this danger of food riots and starvation is not a real one.
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Any country which fails to provide safe and affordable food to its people and ensure a reasonable standard of living for its farmers is heading towards instability and food riots.
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Among the immediate manifestations of the drought have been food riots as convoys of lorries carry grain through hungry villages to border camps for foreign refugees.
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Food riots and sudden changes in the price of foodstuffs are constant indicators of the limits of agricultural market liberalisation.
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These food riots weakened government legitimacy and destabilized the country.
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Nonetheless, food riots have recently taken place in many countries across the world.
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Some of these shortages resulted in food riots and even deadly stampedes.
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There were food riots in 1797, and soup kitchens were established in 1799.
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Immediate causes of food riots have included reduction in food subsidies, inflation, and economic stagnation.
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Further afield, there had been food riots in many of the big cities.
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Poor harvests and food riots lent aid to their cause by creating a restless and agitated population for them to draw supporters from.
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The food riots caused the death of 5 people.
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Rather than solving the financial problems, the "assignats" became a cause for food riots.
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Food riots even broke out in the country.
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