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food riot

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meanings of foodand riot


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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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Examples of food riot


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A campus foodriot prevents 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 a foodriot.
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Communist-inspired demonstrations and food riots in 1932 were large, persistent and unnerving to authorities.
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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