What's the difference between rioter and violent?

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.

Violent


Definition:

  • (a.) Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease.
  • (a.) Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech.
  • (a.) Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal.
  • (n.) An assailant.
  • (v. t.) To urge with violence.
  • (v. i.) To be violent; to act violently.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Certainly not ones with young children accused of non-violent crimes.
  • (2) I haven't had to face anyone like the man who threatened to call the police when he decided his card had been cloned after sharing three bottles of wine with his wife, or the drunk woman who became violent and announced that she was a solicitor who was going to get this fucking place shut down – two customers Andrew had to deal with on the same night.
  • (3) The Nigerian government has been heavily criticised for failing to protect civilians in an increasingly violent conflict that left about 10,000 dead last year.
  • (4) When rates were covaried for prior violent crime arrests, White House Case subjects with prior arrests had a significantly higher rate of total posthospitalization violent crime arrests than the matched control sample.
  • (5) The Met said officers would be told to focus less on stopping people for small amounts of cannabis, and instead focus on those suspected of violent offences and carrying weapons.
  • (6) The home secretary, Theresa May, will attend a summit in Washington on tackling violent extremism, called by Barack Obama after the Charlie Hebdo murders in Paris.
  • (7) In five of the six cases a violent contusion in the trochanter region was involved as a result of a fall on a hard surface or a traffic accident.
  • (8) The Bolotnaya Square protest in May was the only one to turn violent in the nearly year-long wave of demonstrations that brought on to the streets tens of thousands of people opposed to Putin's return to the presidency.
  • (9) IPCC found a Gwent police control room operation had downgraded a call relating to her despite police knowing she was trying to escape a violent partner.
  • (10) A case of complete rupture of the pectoralis major after violent trauma is reported.
  • (11) But the president said that the rest of the country had relied for too long on police to do the “dirty work” of containing urban violence and bore responsibility for the violent spectacle in Baltimore.
  • (12) The effects of chronic use seem to be twofold: severe depression with suicidal thoughts and numerous violent, agitated behavioral patterns.
  • (13) Crisis engulfs Gabon hospital founded to atone for colonial crimes Read more At least seven people died and more than 1,000 were arrested in violent protests following the announcement of the election result earlier this month, which the leader of the opposition, Jean Ping, said Bongo, the incumbent, had rigged.
  • (14) Depending on who you talk to, these evictions were either violent or largely peaceful.
  • (15) Where demanded by justice and national security, we will seek to transfer some detainees to the same type of facilities in which we hold all manner of dangerous and violent criminals within our borders – highly secure prisons that ensure the public safety.
  • (16) Data from almost a third of hospital emergency departments found a 12% fall in injuries from violent incidents in 2013.
  • (17) The resulting disturbing, violent or disruptive behavior will severely detract from the quality of life the patient and family can share together.
  • (18) There is also the issue of fair sentencing – if a person has a violent fight in a bar and is sentenced to an IPP with a two year tariff, and then finds himself stuck in the system six years later he has received a punishment three times more severe than the crime he committed in the eyes of the court.
  • (19) Males who believe they consumed alcohol show increased arousal to deviant stimuli (rape, violent erotica) compared to males who are told to expect no alcohol.
  • (20) The long-running dispute over the Senkaku islands – known as the Diaoyu in China – intensified earlier this month after Japan nationalised the territories, resulting in violent anti-Japanese demonstrations in dozens of Chinese cities.

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