riot stairs English

Meaning riot stairs meaning

What does riot stairs mean?

riot stairs noun

— A flight of stairs that is constructed to deliberately disrupt the natural strides of people walking or running on them.

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The answer is obvious: city dwellers riot; in the countryside, people just starve.

As a result, local police forces have been reduced from 20,000 to 11,000, while the national riot police (CRS) have been reinforced.

The surrealist essence of the rebellion was somehow symbolized by Gilles Caron's famous photograph, in which an insolent smile at a riot policeman subverts the frozen, established order to the point of making it ridiculous.

Last month, Mugabe's riot police, armed with AK-47 rifles, raided the paper, halting production and looting much of its equipment-though not the new printing press, which was too big to carry away.

A Bolshevik anticommunism, similar in its dogmatism to communism itself, has from time to time run riot in parts of Eastern Europe.

Much to the consternation of the Western media, Chinese people worldwide lashed out against its allegedly biased coverage of the Tibetan riot.

Initially, Pussy Riot's troubles attracted little attention, but the hate campaign orchestrated by Orthodox activists and the threat of a seven-year prison sentence for the women turned the tide.

Of course, Pussy Riot could hardly be classified as musicians.

In a sense, Pussy Riot created a simulacrum of a punk-rock group, a piece of performance art about anonymous protest musicians being mistaken for real musicians by real musicians.

By punishing Pussy Riot, Putin has staked his presidency on an eventual conservative victory.

But soon they encounter their own banana peel; indeed, today's global economy is a riot of slipping economic models.

In Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, their husbands and sons riot over food prices.

We saw relief workers throw packets of food and clothes from the top of trucks, causing a riot.

In Liberia's capital city of Monrovia last month, young men began to riot because full funding was not yet in place for the UN's disarmament program.

As they marched toward Wenceslas Square, bearing candles, riot police cut them off, and many - men, women, children-were brutally beaten.

And when Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Khadafi, disappointed by the pan-Arabism he advocated, turned to championing pan-Africanism, his people continued to riot to chase out black immigrants.

The move to annex Crimea has reversed any soft-power benefit that Putin might have gained from the Sochi Olympics and the pardons he granted (as recently as December) to imprisoned opponents like Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the members of Pussy Riot.

We saw relief workers throw packets of food and clothes from the top of trucks, causing a riot. Hustlers thrive, the weak watch passively.

A thousand riot police used rubber bullets and tear gas on the workers, and hundreds were injured, but they did not back down.