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  • Such behavior is apalling and riotious; and is potentially the start of deeper violence.

    House members report increased threats since vote 2010

  • Do as you choose but the name alone brings me close to riotious conditions … ..

    Think Progress » ThinkFast PM: July 13, 2006 2006

  • The resultant legal proceedings were accompanied by riotious disorders, and on April 1st a series of explosions, causing E60,000 worth of damage, heralded the start of a widespread campaign of violence, cruelty and murder under the direction of Grivas.

    The Cyprus Question 1958

  • If things go pear-shaped and Vancouverites resort to their riotious ways, at least the city will get its money's worth out of that bloated security force and the ensuing spectacle will boost NBC's slumping ratings.

    Gorilla Radio blog 2010

  • Personal highlight: Amber Coffman's Mariah Carey-esque stylings on riotious R&B tune "Stillness is the Move."

    Backseat Sandbar 2009

  • Give the mentally disabled a place to live away from the general population where they can insite riotious behavior.

    digg.com: Stories / Popular 2008

  • Give the mentally disabled a place to live away from the general population where they can insite riotious behavior.

    digg.com: Stories / Popular 2008

  • I say the public is close to riotious conditions and it is because of the war, bush’s with us or against us, and the publics feeling of helplesness and hopelesness.

    Think Progress » An article in today’s NYT is an effort to help assassins 2006

  • This is a part of life I think of as private, not in the sense that it has to have a Facebook opt-out slider on it, but just one in which is not only uninteresting to the secular person, even hateful (there is such a riotious backlash against religious believers these days), but one which will inevitably clash with whatever other religious person you happen to encounter from another faith with different rituals, different books, other ideas.

    World of SL 2010

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