What's the difference between rioter and robber?

Rioter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who riots; a reveler; a roisterer.
  • (n.) One who engages in a riot. See Riot, n., 3.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Witnesses reported Uighur rioters attacking Han Chinese people and state television showed them attacking passing vehicles.
  • (2) Rioters revealed that a complex mix of grievances brought them on to the streets but analysts appointed by the LSE identified distrust and antipathy toward police as a key driving force.
  • (3) A young unemployed father of two said he had begun his day buying shoes in JD Sports in town when rioters stormed the shop.
  • (4) Freddie Gray protests sweep US from Baltimore to New York – as it happened Read more Protests over the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray spread across the US overnight as the city at the centre of the storm used national guard troops to help maintain a curfew and authorities were forced into an apparent backdown after holding suspected rioters for days without charge.
  • (5) Britain's most senior prosecutor has questioned whether heavy sentences given to last summer's rioters worked as an effective deterrence, challenging the received wisdom from senior judges and politicians.
  • (6) As rioters continued to torch vehicles and stone police lines several officers were injured by projectiles.
  • (7) • Most prosecutors – in contrast to Starmer – fully endorsed the sentencing approach by judges that saw rioters receive an average sentence of 16.8 months, making the penalties four and half times longer than the average jail term for similar offences in 2010.
  • (8) Saunders also attacked a branch of Tesco with a shovel and handed out looted property to other rioters.
  • (9) All the evidence suggests rioters were generally poorer than the country at large, and educated to a lower level.
  • (10) The August rioters were ethnically mixed, but most shared an experience of economic deprivation.
  • (11) Early today rioters burned the main train station in Tunis to the ground.
  • (12) An estimated 2,000 people gathered in Summerfield Park, near Winson Green, to show unity and solidarity against the rioters.
  • (13) Nevertheless, the figures will come as a fillip to European leaders after a turbulent spring when the eurozone was threatened with collapse as the single currency was hammered on the financial markets and rioters took to the streets of Athens to protest at austerity measures.
  • (14) I don't believe the anger many of these rioters were displaying was wrong: Their actions were wrong, but for many, the anger came from a very real disempowerment.
  • (15) The prime minister said the government will review whether it is possible to stop suspected rioters spreading online messages, in his opening statement during a Commons debate on Thursday on the widespread civil disorder for which MPs were recalled from their summer recess.
  • (16) Some of the rioters at the embassy on Tuesday held aloft pictures of the Quds Force commander, Qassem Suleimani, around whom a personality cult is developing.
  • (17) It initially suggested the alleged rioters were dead, but then ran a correction saying they were only wounded.
  • (18) Rioters are seen smashing up parts of the building to create missiles to hurl at police officers guarding a sectarian boundary close to the Catholic Short Strand area.
  • (19) Approximately 20 police officers with riot gear and batons entered the kettle shortly before 8pm, with police officers saying it could be another five or six hours before the rioters were dispersed.
  • (20) More than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, were killed by rioters.

Robber


Definition:

  • (n.) One who robs; in law, one who feloniously takes goods or money from the person of another by violence or by putting him in fear.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Maybe they have military training but only certain people would have the balls – the audacity – to pull off something like that.” Another former robber said the stolen goods would already be at their destination.
  • (2) And as someone who spent a lot of time with their grandmother, it seemed only natural that bank robbers would meet their match in a benevolent pensioner.
  • (3) "The circumstances caused George to think he might be a robber or do something bad because of what had gone on," she said, referring to a recent series of burglaries in the development.
  • (4) The outcry over the incident – and over a police attempt to portray Becerra as a suspected armed robber – led to graffiti protests across the city as well as the arrest of two police officers.
  • (5) Another hero of the punk era, Mick Jones of the Clash, who co-wrote My Daddy was a Bank Robber, was also present but the music was left to the choir and the Alabama Three who sang Too Sick to Pray.
  • (6) Later still, the local police chief was removed as primary responder, but he still managed to muddy the waters (which the Brown family calls character assassination) by first releasing video of a black robber and then admitting it had nothing to do with Brown's shooting.
  • (7) At Christmas 1964, he was joined in Mexico by his fellow train robbers Buster Edwards, who had not yet been caught, and Charlie Wilson, who had escaped from Winson Green prison.
  • (8) The Sun reported that a blade was held to her throat during the ordeal, while one of the robbers shouted: "If you don't tell us where the safe is we'll cut off your kids' fingers."
  • (9) In 1966 he was assessor to Lord Mountbatten during his inquiry into prison security – but he harboured a sneaking regard for Ronnie Biggs, the great train robber who escaped from Wandsworth jail in 1965, saying that his flight "added a rare and welcome touch of humour to the history of crime".
  • (10) He's looks like a very rich man who doesn't want to open his books – and that fits the robber baron frame.
  • (11) Many of the robbers have already died: Charlie Wilson was shot dead in the Spain in 1990; Buster Edwards killed himself in 1994; Roy James died in 1997; Jimmy Hussey died last year after supposedly making a deathbed confession that he was the gang member who coshed the train driver, Jack Mills, who died of leukaemia seven years later.
  • (12) He is suspected of being the robber who, disguised as a police officer, was the first one to force his way into the depot on the night of the heist.
  • (13) Whereas taking bags full of cash into financial institutions in Thailand will manifest in being offered a comfortable seat and a cup of tea.” One former armed robber from south London has his own theory as to why the theft has attracted such attention and speculation.
  • (14) And it is through this work that she came across one former robber… Graham Godden's childhood was grim in comparison to Malton's.
  • (15) Electronic fraudsters will replace the stocking and shotgun robbers of the past.
  • (16) There were a lot of young men on the streets who were mainly out to play cops and robbers with the police.
  • (17) The prosecutor said that the struggle ensued after Wilson realised that Brown matched a description broadcast over police radio moments earlier for a grocery store robber.
  • (18) "But really what we're looking for is the fragments that the ancient tomb robbers left to us."
  • (19) But it was, perhaps, the 30-year sentences the robbers received that played a major part in creating the myths around them.
  • (20) Activists dressed up as highway robbers carried banners saying: "The Great British Royal Mail Robbery".

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