What's the difference between outbreak and riot?

Outbreak


Definition:

  • (n.) A bursting forth; eruption; insurrection.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During the study period four family outbreaks and seven recurrences of infection were observed.
  • (2) Some international coverage of the outbreak was accused of misinforming western readers.
  • (3) We present a mathematical model that is suitable to reconcile this apparent contradiction in the interpretation of the epidemiological data: the observed parallel time series for the spread of AIDS in groups with different risk of infection can be realized by computer simulation, if one assumes that the outbreak of full-blown AIDS only occurs if HIV and a certain infectious coagent (cofactor) CO are present.
  • (4) Last week the WHO said the outbreak had reached a critical point, and announced a $200m (£120m) emergency fund.
  • (5) Although the incidence of acute rheumatic fever has declined in the last decades, a few outbreaks have recently been reported.
  • (6) The effect of scrotal mange (Chorioptes bovis) on semen quality was assessed in a flock of rams during an outbreak of chorioptic mange and in rams with experimentally induced chorioptic mange.
  • (7) The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge stood among the graves on 4 August last year in a moving ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of war.
  • (8) The present study identifies and values the costs of a hospital based outbreak of poultry-borne salmonellosis.
  • (9) In a statement the Los Angeles County department of public health said: "Though legionella bacteria was identified in a water sample taken from the Playboy Mansion, this bacteria has not been determined as the source of the respiratory outbreak.
  • (10) However, focal outbreaks in small scale still occurred every year.
  • (11) The number of reported outbreaks increased from 20 in 1981 to 64 in 1988, 114 in 1989, 82 in 1990 and 52 in 1991 (January to June).
  • (12) This was achieved by means of postal questionnaires, coupled with the biochemical and serological examination of bacterial isolates from 91 outbreaks in poultry and from nine cases in other avian species.
  • (13) The authors studied 1,211 laboratory-confirmed, non-outbreak-related cases of giardiasis in Vermont residents reported through Vermont's laboratory-based active surveillance system between 1983 and 1986.
  • (14) If Abbott changes his formulation, he could risk an outbreak of ill-discipline within his own ranks, because these days the conservatives are more inclined to public outbreaks off-script than the moderates.
  • (15) Crises such as the Ebola outbreak in west Africa and mass displacement in Central African Republic, South Sudan and Syria triggered a 22% rise in humanitarian spending among the DAC’s 28 member countries, which spent $13bn in that area last year, the OECD said.
  • (16) He argues that whenever you have periods of crazy expansion of virtual credit, like today, you either have to have a safety valve of forgiveness, like in Mesopotamia where you wiped the tablets clean every seven years, or you have an outbreak of social violence so intense you rip society apart.
  • (17) A major outbreak in Kent in 2012 saw 2,000 trees felled.
  • (18) On the basis of the analysis of 69 outbreaks of hospital infections registered in the USSR in 1986-1989, as well as additional observations made by the authors, a number of factors which determined the present state of the problems concerning this kind of morbidity in the USSR were established: an insufficient level (in cases of enteric infections) or a low level (in cases of purulent septic infections) of etiological diagnosis; poor efficiency of the epidemiological investigation of outbreaks; defects in the work on the prophylactic detection of potential sources of infection among medical staff, parturient women or mothers taking care of their infants.
  • (19) The restriction enzyme patterns of the nine clinical isolates from the 1983 Massachusetts outbreak were identical to each other but differed from those of raw milk isolates recovered from sources supplying the pasteurizer.
  • (20) An isolated colony of red squirrels at Formby , Merseyside, were decimated by an outbreak of squirrelpox in 2008 , which saw the population crash by 85% to less than 200 squirrels.

Riot


Definition:

  • (n.) Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
  • (n.) Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.
  • (n.) The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.
  • (v. i.) To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to excess.
  • (v. i.) To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See Riot, n., 3.
  • (v. t.) To spend or pass in riot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But, in a sign of tension within the coalition government, the Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesman, Tom Brake, told BBC2's Newsnight that "if [the offenders in question] had committed the same offence the day before the riots, they would not have received a sentence of that nature".
  • (2) Loyalists are opposed to any restrictions and have blocked roads and rioted over the issue.
  • (3) It’s clear which way the ultra-right community around Ukip wishes to go: their timelines are full of praise for Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders , and blazing with imagery – both real and fake – of migrant riots in France and Sweden.
  • (4) The organizers of the protest march he participated in said the man had fallen ill before any rioting had broken out.
  • (5) Jana Sante, owner of Gisella Boutique, Peckham: "We received a call from someone saying 'the riots are heading your way'.
  • (6) The rioting began on Wednesday after a deadly argument between a Muslim gold shop owner and his Buddhist customers in Meikhtila.
  • (7) To counterbalance integration against the threat of riots is basically the Tebbit test without the sport.
  • (8) Communal riots are not unique to Gujarat, but the chief ministers of other states have not been blamed when pogroms have erupted on their watch.
  • (9) He was the peaceful activist whose sudden disappearance into a phalanx of riot police on a Baltimore street sparked a viral panic.
  • (10) It is the same article of the law that was used against Pussy Riot and can carry a jail sentence of several years.
  • (11) Ten years ago I felt I could understand why people gathered at Cronulla beach to protest on the day of the riots.
  • (12) Mohammed Salama, 23, an Al Ahly ultra whose leg was broken in the stadium riot, said it became clear at half-time in the match between the two historical foes that trouble was brewing.
  • (13) Tolokonnikova was given a two-year sentence for her part in Pussy Riot's "punk prayer" in Moscow's largest cathedral, calling on the Virgin Mary to "kick out Putin".
  • (14) Three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot are facing two years in a prison colony after they were found guilty of hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, in a case seen as the first salvo in Vladimir Putin's crackdown on opposition to his rule.
  • (15) To substantiate his claims, the author draws upon historical documents from the Second World War dealing with the threat to China from Japan's armed forces, and also makes reference to the race riots in Los Angeles early this year.
  • (16) Following escalating violence against protestors, in February the peaceful protest camp was cleared by riot police, resulting in at least 88 deaths in 48 hours; Yanukovych was later deposed, ahead of Russia's move on Crimea.
  • (17) Ursula Nevin, 24, of Stretford, slept through the riots, but was jailed for five months after admitting handling stolen goods looted by her lodger.
  • (18) You can argue about what constitutes a race “riot” these days – and why the hell we are seeing teargas every other evening in the suburbs, or Jim Crow-reminiscent police dogs in the year 2014.
  • (19) A prosecutor in north London who dealt with nothing but riot cases in the crown court for three months said: "Let's be clear, we could have failed.
  • (20) Shields accepted that the Irish appeared more inclined to send up their grim fiscal situation than go out and riot.