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His theft sparked what would become a large scale riot, even by modern standards.
A prison riot is a type of large scale, temporary act of concerted defiance or disorder by a group of prisoners against the prison administrators, prison officers, or other groups of prisoners, often to express a grievance, in an attempt to force change or an attempt to escape the prison.
Most of the public at the fight is dissatisfied with the decision and a large scale riot forms after the verdict is announced: chairs, bottles and other objects were thrown into the ring, at New York.
The decision caused the ire of the pro-Castillo crowd, and a large scale riot ensued, fourteen people, including the one judge who scored the fight for Castillo, are hospitalized.
The Initial Reaction Force ( IRF ), also known as the Internal Reaction Force or Extreme Reaction Force ( ERF ) to inmates, is a type of small scale riot squad in U. S. military prisons such as the Camp Delta detention center of Guantanamo Bay.
However, in 1968 at San Quentin, a full scale riot broke out after a Mexican Mafia soldier, or soldado, stole a pair of shoes from a Nuestra Familia sympathizer.
The sheer scale of the rising, however was not fully appreciated until November 3, the day before the riot.
Cinna and his supporters began using violence to intimidate the tribunes to withdraw their veto, leading to a full scale riot in the Roman forum.
In the first two years of his governorship, the recovery of the economy in Singapore was slow and a large scale of riot broke out in 1947.
ii ) By this time the protest had degenerated into a full – scale communal riot between Hindus and Muslims.
Exercises are conducted predominantly at the MPS Specialist Training Centre in Gravesend, Kent, though other sites are used as required, and encompass all public order scenarios ; officers will undergo extensive riot training including being petrol bombed in large scale engagements, prison clearance tactics, football stadium scenarios, night club scenarios, aircraft, rail and various ' angry-man ' scenarios, as well as additional specialist training.
The fight grew into a full scale riot, with fires burning over night in the streets.

scale and was
That world was in scale with my own smallness.
The most that was accomplished was adding Mrs. Beige's tray to the dish pile, and by means of repeated threats, on an ascending scale, seeing that the girls dressed themselves, after a fashion.
The mass scale used in Table 5-1 was derived on the assumption that the motion of the glowing trail is related to the momentum transfer to the trail by the meteorite, permitting the calculation of the mass if the velocity is known ( Cook and Whipple, 1958 ).
An objective scale was developed for rating school neighborhoods from these data.
The rating scale of compulsivity was constructed by first perusing the interview records, categorizing all evidence related to compulsivity, then arranging a distribution of such information apart from the case records.
Both the BIH scale and A. 1 was defined by an epoch at the beginning of 1958: it was set to read Julian Date 2436204. 5 ( 1 January 1958 00: 00: 00 ) at the corresponding UT2 instant.
This was a compromise arrangement for a broadcast time scale: a linear transformation of the BIH's atomic time meant that the time scale was stable and internationally synchronised, while approximating UT1 means that tasks such as navigation which require a source of Universal Time continue to be well served by public time broadcasts.
The Siphnian Treasury in Delphi was one of the first Greek buildings utilizing the solution to put the dominating form in the middle, and to complete the descending scale of height with other figures sitting or kneeling.
According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.
The Bessemer process was able to produce the first large scale manufacture of steel.
On the scale he used, the boiling-point of water was marked at + 73 and the melting-point of ice at 51, so that the zero of his scale was equivalent to about − 240 on the Celsius scale.
After James Prescott Joule had determined the mechanical equivalent of heat, Lord Kelvin approached the question from an entirely different point of view, and in 1848 devised a scale of absolute temperature which was independent of the properties of any particular substance and was based solely on the fundamental laws of thermodynamics.
It followed from the principles on which this scale was constructed that its zero was placed at − 273. 15 ° C, at almost precisely the same point as the zero of the air-thermometer.

scale and surpassed
The Karakum and Kyzyl Kum deserts are expanding at a rate surpassed on a planetary scale only by the desertification process in the Sahara and Sahel regions of Africa.
The assaulting force of over 15, 000 men and 70 warships with over 600 guns, was the most powerful amphibious assault in world history ( and was not surpassed until the large scale landings of World War Two ).
The playwright Elemér Szentirmay ( also known as János Németh ) was very popular in his time, known for his " form of expression and scale of popular character " whose " works surpassed in popularity everything written by his contemporaries ".

scale and only
Look in this book for weak mortals and only on occasion for virtues and vices on the heroic scale.
Not only did this mean that Ford enjoyed much larger demand, but the resulting larger demand also allowed further economies of scale to be exploited, further depressing unit price, which tapped yet another portion of the demand curve.
Small fragments, formerly thrown away or used only for varnish, are now used on a large scale in the formation of " amberoid " or " pressed amber ".
According to the community, their tragedy is comparable in scale and intensity only with the genocide faced by the indigenous people of the Americas.
Although amaranth was cultivated on a large scale in ancient Mexico, Guatemala, and Peru, nowadays it is only cultivated on a small scale there, along with India, China, Nepal, and other tropical countries ; thus, there is potential for further cultivation in those countries, as well as in the U. S. In a 1977 article in Science, amaranth was described as " the crop of the future.
This analysis neglects other potential bottlenecks such as memory bandwidth and I / O bandwidth, if they do not scale with the number of processors ; however, taking into account such bottlenecks would tend to further demonstrate the diminishing returns of only adding processors.
Car production had always been on a small scale and until the advent of World War II halted work only about 700 had been made.
It was only in the subsequent period, from 1977 through 1988, that the three firms began to export arms on a large scale.
File: Michelangelo Epifania. jpg | Room 90-Michelangelo's Epifania-his only surviving large scale cartoon ( 1550 – 53 )
Although water is vital for life, the structure of this water in the cytosol is not well understood, mostly because methods such as nuclear magnetic resonance only give information on the average structure of water, and cannot measure local variations at the microscopic scale.
The two systems differ only in the scale of two out of the three base units ( centimetre versus metre and gram versus kilogram, respectively ), while the third unit ( second as the unit of time ) is the same in both systems.
By far the greatest source of dyes has been from the plant kingdom, notably roots, berries, bark, leaves and wood, but only a few have ever been used on a commercial scale.
* Vigreux column ( usually laboratory scale only )
While in Italy the tendency was to give scale by increasing the number of panels, in France the contrary seems to have been the rule ; and one of the great doors at Fontainebleau, which is in two leaves, is entirely carried out as if consisting of one great panel only.
Working with a team of master glassblowers and assistants has enabled him to produce architectural glass art of a scale and quantity unimaginable working alone or with only one assistant.
The direct conversion of nuclear potential energy to electricity by beta decay is used only on a small scale.
As only differences in electronegativity are defined, it is necessary to choose an arbitrary reference point in order to construct a scale.
The time scale represented by T < sub > eph </ sub > has been characterized as a relativistic coordinate time that differs from Terrestrial Time only by small periodic terms with an amplitude not exceeding 2 milliseconds of time: it is linearly related to, but distinct ( by an offset and constant rate which is of the order of 0. 5 sec / yr ) from the TCB time scale adopted in 1991 as a standard by the IAU.
Because this layer is only a few molecules thick, at a macroscopic scale a clear phase transition interface can be seen.
The only large scale engagement outside the city of Dublin occurred at Ashbourne, County Meath.
It is also a justification for free trade policies, since some economies of scale may require a larger market than is possible within a particular country — for example, it would not be efficient for Liechtenstein to have its own car maker, if they would only sell to their local market.
If the firm is a perfect competitor in all input markets, and thus the per-unit prices of all its inputs are unaffected by how much of the inputs the firm purchases, then it can be shown that at a particular level of output, the firm has economies of scale if and only if it has increasing returns to scale, has diseconomies of scale if and only if it has decreasing returns to scale, and has neither economies nor diseconomies of scale if it has constant returns to scale.

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