But in the confused, edgy atmosphere of a city convulsed by riot, all groups seemed suspicious, treacherous.
France was convulsed by coups, revolutions and counter-revolutions for the next 60 years.
Even as the private world has eclipsed public markets, finance has been convulsed by a computer-enhanced frenzy of creativity.
But what is its lead item as riots convulsed K.L.? Lee Kuan Yew saying Malaysia won't succumb to violence.
Over the next month the bond market convulsed and investors fled risky paper of the sort most mortgage REITs hold.
Was that you turning to see the woman convulsed hysterically with laughter?
FORBES: On Jonathan Coe: Give Me 27 Films and I'll Show You the Man
The latest move comes as Kuwait prepares to mark the 10th anniversary of the start of the Gulf War, which convulsed the region.
Last year, the industry was convulsed by rolling garment-factory strikes after a labor leader who had been calling for higher wages was murdered.
WSJ: Bangladesh Collapse: The Global Garment Trail: From Bangladesh to a Mall Near You
The former prime minister was visiting the United States as the country was convulsed with uncertainty over the final outcome of Tuesday's presidential election.
Even with so many unprecedented steps taken, Wall Street has convulsed.
The hearings and votes on Thomas convulsed the nation for weeks in the fall of 1991 and generated much of the energy for the elections of 1992.
Just a month after Jakarta was convulsed in rioting, looting, arson and, it has now emerged, rape, such pluralism is seen by some as risky, especially when it takes on religious or ethnic forms.
Security forces have often fired on stone-pelting protesters, killing over 50 people, mostly teenagers, in the past two months as the valley has been convulsed by what most locals call a fierce peoples' "uprising" against India.
Many residents will tell you that Mumbai began going downhill in early 1993 when it convulsed in religious rioting and murder for two weeks following the demolition of the Babri mosque by Hindu fanatics in December 1992.
In an interwar Britain convulsed by a fresh set of shocks - the great depression, mass unemployment, the rise of fascism in Europe - it's hardly surprising that readers looked on such places as a nostalgic reminder of an apparently simpler time before August 1914.
He gives children ritual pats on the cheek, but reveals his emotional detachment during a 1938 Munich "celebration for dead comrades" when, confronted by a girl convulsed with grief presumably for her dead father he administers a pat that amounts to the kind of whack one would give a playful dog.
应用推荐