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How to use mob in a sentence

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But on close examination the scene looks less like a victory for democracy than a case of mob rule.
It was unclear whether he was suggesting that officials incited the mob or whether pilgrims gave cover to attackers.
For democracy without the rule of law is mob rule, and the rule of law is not built by democratic means.
And it marks the beginning of racial hatred, of mob rule, of racial segregation, of mindless violence and terror.
Perhaps you don't understand this, but mob rule and democracy are different things.
One of his ancestors suppressed a riot by laying low a man called Murphy, a thug at the head of a mob who was wielding a wire whip.
The fact you're trying to organise mob rule is enough to make me see the flaw in the plan, let alone anything else.
Perhaps we should ask them if they understand the difference between democracy and mob rule.
If they think they can somehow use mob rule to gain some sort of standing in the community they are sorely mistaken.
It is true that I wouldn't advocate the rule of the anarchic mob any more than the Cat.
Written, directed and co-starring Jon Favreau, this film tells the story of a boxer who shuns the mob to pursue his boxing dreams.
Meanwhile, a revolutionary insurrection by a disaffected Kentish mob threatens to bring anarchy to London.
It was the first time Scots had seen a man in shorts and I was followed everywhere by an angry mob with pitch forks and burning torches.
Although this might be unpopular in the short term, at least they will regain some respect once the current mob mentality dies down.
The city's current mob boss keeps a much lower profile than his imprisoned predecessor.
The mob began to hurl rocks, bricks, Molotov cocktails, and other debris at the soldiers in an attempt to take over the bridge.
They thundered down the streets, pursued by the mob and several members of the city guard who were also on horseback.
The mob were about 100-strong with automatic weapons, sniper sights and Makarov pistols.
A single police constable posted at the multiplex watched helplessly as the mob struck.
The poor creature took fright and ran with the mob catcalling after her and even throwing a rock or two.
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If that means they may send the heavy mob round, well I've moved and I'm still talking about English and British.
The mob scenes and concert craziness are actually underplayed, since no one would really believe the kind of mass frenzy the group created.
The undertrained troops attempted an orderly movement, but it quickly degenerated into a mob movement.
After a half hour of ponderous, laugh-free, heavy dialogue, I reclassified Prizzi's Honor as a serious mob movie.
I'd made peace with the completely unfunny nature of the film and its misguided attempts to be a grave mob story.
I suppose the bunch who sling off at me would defend him and his mob for breaking our laws!
They of course demeaned themselves by demonstrating on the lawn outside the council room like a mob of unlettered students.
His borderless homesteads reveal the close-knit neighbors as a hop, skip, and a jump away from mob mentality.
One night Michael stows away in his father's car and is witness to the murder of an uncooperative mob associate.
When a mob mastermind decides to turn stool pigeon and squawk, it's up to the S.W.A.T. team to protect him.
So many American mob killers have turned stool pigeon or gotten themselves arrested.
Money doesn't buy happiness and most of the time the best people are the people that you mob pass on the street everyday.
Many fights and minor scuffles broke out among the crowd and when officers tried to calm the situation the mob turned hostile.
Then fumed for a while, presuming that it was coming from the unruly mob from the house next door.
Attempting to apprise the mob of Louis-Philippe's abdication, an elderly marshal on a white horse preceded by a trumpeter went unheard.
Three women who were caught veilless were bound to stakes and exposed to a pious mob which threw stones until the women died.
A mob of brumbies, which were considered a bigger nuisance, diverted the hunt and several of these animals were captured instead.
There are those who condemn it as mob rule that vulgarises society and as a belief that tolerates mediocrity and incompetence.
These last few comments are degenerating into a mob attack on a young designer.
Worst of all is the disastrous family his daughter is about to marry into, a graceless mob of halfwits headed by a foul-mouthed virago.
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Laertes, Polonius' son, returns with a mob from Paris and demands retribution against Hamlet.
And he disappears amidst the unstoppable mob heading to classrooms, he is now gone and now I'm gone too, taking a class I now abominate.
And I've seen a small group of men turn into a lynch mob like a light switch had been flipped.
When someone falls off track in life, people will often form a mob for the purposes of holding an intervention.
He remembers how the Rapid Action Force intervened in time to scatter the mob and help him live to tell the tale.
As far as the great EU socialist leaders are concerned, the mob rules in America.
Sheeran was a local Teamsters president from Delaware who was close to Hoffa, but also the right-hand man to legendary mob boss Russell Bufalino.
The US sent troops to occupy Haiti in 1915 after a mob dragged President Guillaume Sam from his palace and tore him limb from limb.
Such arguments simply portray investors as a mob that reacts to events for no apparent reason.
Think of the mob with flaming torches in the Frankenstein movie making their way up the mountain to the castle and you've got the picture.
Firm action by the army dampened the revolutionary ardour of the mob and restored order in the streets.
It quickly became a volatile situation with a mob of around 50 people surrounding them.
The mob entered the synagogue, desecrated the biggest house of worship and defiled the Scrolls of the Law.
In contrast to this seaside scene, on which the sun smiles, the illustration on the right depicts ignorance, ruination, and mob rule.
The mob attempted to rush the doors to the 19th floor elections office, and several people were trampled and manhandled in the process.
At one point in the chaotic revolution, a mob loyal to the deposed Prince Sihanouk sacked the governor's mansion in Kompong Cham.
We have seen characters like this in many mob stories, the sadomasochistic psychopath who flaunts rank against reproach.
They are also the same mob who you and I go to war to fight for freedom and democracy, but not them.
Monk witnesses a man in a Chinese mob being murdered, and has to stay in a FBI safe house as a result.
The sun is low in the sky as jackaroos on motorbikes muster a mob of weaner rams along the picturesque Egelabra lagoon.
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Many episodes of anti-Mexican mob violence involve lynch mobs that broke into jails to retrieve their victims.
These days, the police and social services would be hammering at the gates, while a baying hate mob stormed the place with burning torches.
One night, in 1976, he was forced to spring from bed to defend his family at gunpoint when a baying republican mob broke into his home.
But they said they were finally forced to quit after being confronted by a baying mob who warned them they would be killed if they did not leave.
We should not be like a mob descending on the village and leave like locusts.
A baying mob of youths hurled abuse at firefighters as they battled a suspicious rubbish fire threatening to engulf an electricity pylon.
It ended up being such a mob scene, such a madhouse, I didn't leave until Sunday night.
If I had made these statements a year ago, a royalist mob would have probably garrotted me with bunting.
In the United States a law against mob racketeers has been misapplied in all sorts of spheres, including throughout the securities industry.
Teachers will be asked to say whether they have faced situations ranging from mob intimidation, physical assault or sexual or racial harassment.
It seems a well-connected L.A. mob figure has targeted her son's business for takeover, but the cops can't seem to get the goods on him.
And, like all incestuous political organizations, at times the power of the mob falls into the hands of less-than-capable leaders.
Innocent victims caught up in the riots spoke last night of their terror as a mob rampaged along the streets they call home.
I saw an extremist mob with clubs and swords standing on the other side of the road.
If it was cars or clothes on offer, they would be tear-gassing the mob as they surged across the forecourts of Ireland's garages, cash in hand.
That figures of the cloth have been associated with prosecutorial misconduct and the passions of the mob is one of this case's many ironies.
Plus it played on a big fear of mine for the end of the first third, namely mob rule and mass hysteria.
Not that I'm advocating the formation of a violent, angry mob rather than a peaceful crowd of protesters.
It's amazing how the mob mentality took over thousands of normally peaceful people.
Police scattered striking workers and teargas was also used to disperse a striking mob at Cyril Lord.
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His scheming boss and mob underling, Sykes, demands that Oscar pay up the clams he has borrowed during his get-rich-quick schemes.
The theory of mob lynching has been manufactured to hide the facts of this gruesome incident.
The second is that an expectant and sceptical mob is starting to gather, with what looks ominously like a gallows and a hanging rope.
When scouts reported a river ahead, the army dissolved into a mob and ran for it.
But an anti-Mormon mob killed him that year, creating a martyr to the new faith.
Finally, the use of CS gas will aid in the dispersal of an unruly mob without causing any permanent damage.
They resort to petty thievery to make a few extra bucks and, by chance, end up videotaping a mob hit that lands them in water over their heads.
When police arrived at the house, they were attacked by a mob hurling stones, bricks and fireworks.
It was a mob of over hundred Kashmiri men, all of them dressed in pheren and carrying kangris in their hands.
Do not pass Go or collect 100 francs, go directly to the Bastille, where you will be decapitated by an angry mob of toothless old crones.
In this particular case, it's a mob of undertakers who partake in a bit of racketeering and diamond theft on the side.
Obviously, the big mob of kids was rather too prominent for the citizens of Lincoln.
Where you expect to find your true inner self, you will come face-to-face with a mob of strangers.
The last thing on anyone's mind should be having to deal with a mindless, self-appointed, unaccountable mob holding the country to ransom.
The people of the mob cheered as they made their way out of the palace, that was now soiled in blood and violence.
The mob uprooted a street lamp and used it as battering ram to smash in the doors.
The administration is trying to frame a guilty man and lead a lynch mob to execute him.
Russians and Belgians had their shops smashed if they were in the way of the mob or went unrecognized as allies.
The mob then chased after two other men who were also seen to have run from the restaurant.
More often, in fact, they are foot soldiers of totalitarian regimes and of mob rule.
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White mob violence against blacks was a deliberate tool used to maintain white supremacy, not to punish crime.
The camera captures Rico's observant nature as he gazes in envy at a mob leader's jeweled cravat, diamond pinky ring, and stock of fine cigars.
Every new dusty setting calls for more energetic sharpshooting, whether picking off an angry mob or firing at targets from horseback.
The mob is fighting the cleaners, and I'm so tranked on painkillers I don't know whether to shoot them or hug them.
Rule of mob is deaf to the voices of reason, and hence the rule of mob must be stopped at all costs.
There is so much deceit and trickery about this mob that it needs to be categorised.
Party members were tightly controlled, but the inner party made no attempt to turn the proles from spasmodic mob into party members.
His mob family is undergoing an anarchic growth spurt, as wise guys jailed in the 1980s are suddenly free to get back in the game.
It is the city and the mob that have created the imaginary lives of giants out of the experience of dwarves.
He is proof that violence is needed to contain violence and that one just man will prevail over the corrupt mob and timorous crowd.
After they made it out of the extensive mob of passengers they exchanged their Reichsmarks for Francs.
He is a fine batsman but it is his gift for words that distinguishes him from the rest of the mob who play cricket and then write about it.
I know that my mob and my group are expecting me to make decisions which advance our particular needs or interests.
Here he plays Charlie, a yellow-bellied mob lawyer, who hooks up with a cutthroat businessman, Vic.
Irrational fear of the mob was the reason the Red Cross didn't enter the city.
Unfortunately, the mob was more organized that they expected as freshly reloaded guns began to fire at them.
Cattle seem to recognise this, so in a mob of mixed breeds, the yaks generally set the pattern.
On 8 July 1871 Gason reported that a large mob of cattle had been seen some 300 kilometres north of the station.
Small songbirds often mob them, and imitating the call of a Northern Pygmy-Owl will often bring songbirds close in for observation.
Swifts will often mob aerial predators such as raptors if they approach a flock.
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They will also mob predators in flight, gathering into tight flocks and dive-bombing a hawk or other predator.
Her brown hair peeked in wisps from under her mob cap, and when she saw me, she smiled.
Sara looked up as Amy entered the room dressed in her simple black dress with the white apron and mob cap.
Fury, on the other hand, descends quickly and unrelentingly into solemn and emotional intensity against mob rule and violence.
And as for politicians not having changed anything, are you suggesting we just give up democracy and go for mob rule?
He would have known that there had been a popular uprising leading to mob rule, the overthrow of monarchy and persecution of the nobility.
Today most of us are in favour of democracy, but in earlier times it meant mob rule and then it was quite alarming.
He couldn't expect to stay in charge by allowing this mob rule to take place.
Anything less is a concession that the rule of law can be usurped by mob rule.
They also base themselves on a model of democracy half a step above mob rule.
When there was an actual consulate in Benghazi, back in 1967, it was stormed by a mob and parts of it were set on fire.
After several hours the mob started coming over the walls and breached one of the gates.
This is not the case with the Camorra, the real Italian mob based in Naples, Italy, and the subject of Gomorra.
With so many sources for illegal booze, including Canada, why does the Capone mob need Nucky Thompson and Atlantic City?
And although the resolution wanly concedes Senate complicity in mob murders, it does little to compensate victims of a racist terrorism that was culture-deep.
We ritualize this process to make sure we don't allow the grief of great tragedies to blind us with mob fury, inflamed judgments and uninformed reasoning.
He had mob ties, and conned not only the companies that he helped make worthless, but also his own brokers.
I don't suppose Lancaster would take it kindly to know you and some others of your ilk didn't exactly hold off that mob from the Savoy, now did you?
But the vision of a new world soon darkened, as constitution-making gave way to mob rule, regicide, terror, atheism, and then military dictatorship.
What had seemed an anonymous mob suddenly sprang into variety and colour.
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Shortly after, a mob of Buddhists exacted retribution by pulling over a bus carrying Muslims and beating 10 passengers to death.
These days it seems you don't have to look very far to find someone handing out pitchforks and torches and organizing a mob to administer rough justice on some bar.
After a few minutes, I came to my senses enough to see an angry mob standing on the railway platform.
Fear of the mob has always been uppermost in the gentry's minds.
A baying mob of 200 fans mercilessly called for Van de Velde to quit immediately after this third defeat in a row which ended the Wolves' lingering top five hopes.
The sad reality is that, over the past few years, mob sexual violence has skyrocketed in Egypt.
The highest form of political courage is doing the right thing when the mob is against it.
Former Chicago hit man Frank Cullotta now makes an honest living leading tours of his old mob haunts in Las Vegas.
The usual mustering scene shows tawny grass and anthills and a mob of red Brahmans moving slowly along, but over the page are stockmen with baseball caps and heavy shades.
The calls come amid fears of a repeat of the violence which marred last year's bank holiday event when a mob went on the rampage, attacking police and burning buildings.
From thenceforth, the Paris mob would be the power behind the Revolution.
Two of the vehicles were burnt by the mob and the third was driven away.
Imagine the troopers being forced to retreat into a vacant building and barricading the door because the anger and strength of the mob had reached a fever pitch.
Several of them carried burning torches and I had a flash of old horror films, the mob of villagers going after the mad scientist and his monster.
Outside the courthouse, they were swarmed by a media mob until they managed to get into a livery cab.
He is only interested in the truth and along the way comes up against bent cops, the mob and an extremely hostile family, who are hiding the truth from their own.
The three of us tried to act as peacemakers in an unseemly mob and for our troubles we got blackballed from every pub and club in the city centre.
I feared trouble because the mob was growing restless and violent.
This capability will provide a means to capture specified individuals, such as those inciting a mob to violence or enemy combatants we seek to take prisoner.
Quickly, a crowd gathered and that crowd escalated into a mob even faster.
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A leading Australian novelist once upbraided me about the poet's indecent use of metaphor, as though he felt that my mob was stealing a march on him, poor soul.
Put a large group of humans together and you get chaos, mob rule, anarchy.
Should an attempt be made the only likely result was mob rule or anarchy.
But this modish mob doesn't just follow the trends, they also wear them.
Moments later, a mob of about 25 young men burst through the door and unleashed a brutal attack on Singh.
Rather than helping though, policemen were actually complicit in the mob violence.
A man tells of his lucky escape from a mob and finding acceptance in America.
Abdul kept him and other members of the mob at bay by throwing his valuables out of his window onto the street.
Police blamed seven murders on gang clashes, six on domestic violence, four on robbery and two on mob vendettas, while the motives behind the other 28 were undetermined.
The sky is broodingly grey over the humid downs of the Barkly Tableland as a mob of well-fed white Brahman cows and calves quietly shift across the green expanse.
The book ends with an assault by the mob on Mr Chainmail's 12th-cent. castle, an ironic comment on the more visionary schemes to solve the troubles of the age of reform.
Engaged by an angry mob upon arrival, Nixon and his wife were yelled at, spat on, and pummeled with rocks.
There was one man a while back who had murdered and raped a nine year old girl who seemed certain to hang, but a mob invaded his prison and killed him themselves.
On FBI tapes, Gambino capo DePalma claims the mob controls this union.
Despite the flimsiness of the evidence against him, town inhabitants are whipped into a mob frenzy by a man who acknowledges that he is a strike-breaker.
You can tell that someone thought this off-putting tale of modern mob mentality and teen occult fascination would make a very menacing, demographically secure chiller.
The mob however followed in hot pursuit and soon had him pinned down.
The other mob have gone and, like everybody's favourite house guests, there's no sign left behind to suggest they were ever there in the first place.
He has always compared the job of gallery boss to that of an evangelist, and viewed philistines as candidates for conversion rather than a mob to cower from.
If our welfare and education systems had not created an underclass of feral youths, he and his friends would not have been the victims of mob violence.
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This important conclusive finding immediately sets at rest the allegation that a mob poured inflammables from outside into the compartment and set the rail compartment ablaze.
Tottenham Court Road was pillaged by a mob of sixty hardcore anarchists.
But a mob without any man at the head of it, is beneath pitifulness.
He isn't modern or English enough to deny a plastered mob its nostalgia.
The angry but peaceful mob made it as far as the Royal Cliff property's front gate where they were held back by more than 100 police and security officers and a fire truck.
Just when everything seems copacetic, mob boss Spats Colombo appears on the scene, still looking for the two musicians who witnessed the hit back in Chicago.
Police have positively identified the bulk of a mob of 274 cattle, allegedly stolen from properties and saleyards in Victoria and New South Wales.
The war will be won by tired men who could never again pass an insurance test, a mob of broken counter-jumpers, ragged ex-plumbers and quite unheroic persons.
I know a lot of people who call themselves anarchists and not one of them believes in things like mob rule, free-handed violence, complete chaos and destruction.
The mob will be in full cry for the early departure of the prime minister.
The leatherback frogmen of the NYPD Scuba Squad patrol a hellish world beyond noir, where body parts abound, the water's filthy, and mob victims wear concrete shoes.
Khan was among a mob wielding cudgels, swords, hammers and guns who attacked a group of West Indians in what was described as a premeditated and racially motivated attack.
In Chicago alone, for example, 55 hate crimes were reported in which the attacks were mentioned and at least once an angry mob descended on a mosque.
In the Amazon, for example, you could run into an angry mob of electric eels, which can discharge up to 600 volts into the water, enough to stop a weak heart.
In the painting the revolution's populist crowd is transformed by the painter into a common herd, a mob of grotesqueries, to be manipulated by the speaker to do his bidding.
I guess once they guillotined the king, ending over 1000 years of monarchy in Europe, the mob weren't likely to take any kind of authority very seriously after that.
He is not only a restaurant manager but also a mob enforcer.
It touches off a great roar of voices, turns 500 businessmen into a yelling, waving mob like that above and starts another day's trading on the world's biggest grain exchange.
But the intensity of the mob around Allen is not afforded to every celebrity.
Now that fear of the mob has ascended to the most venerable circle of criticism.
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The patrons repaid the mob by buying cheap liquor at premium prices, along with bootleg cigarettes and sometimes drugs.
In Taipei, Taiwan, a bach flash mob consisting of cellists and tuba players took over a train.
Di Caprio and Damon are undercover mob and cop agents respectively, inflitrating each other's ranks.
When de Nicuesa arrived at the city's port, a mob appeared, and the ensuing disturbance prevented the governor from disembarking into the city.
Only a few pages of some of the account books have escaped destruction by a frenzied mob.
The Hays Commission declared it a massacre and police mob action, and it has since been known as the Ponce massacre.
Some Jamaicans are hostile towards LGBT and intersex people, and there have been reported cases of mob attacks against gay people.
The Forum itself would always, henceforth, wield a strange kind of mesmeric fascination upon the mob demagogue or would-be putschist.
The mob boss was known for executing his enemies with a garrotte of piano wire.
When the mob men finally found him, they gave him a good going over that left him clinging to life.
All the mob guys I knew, growing up, they had a goomar. They'd keep the girls in an apartment, buy 'em stuff, keep 'em quiet.
Petronius was unable to muster any effective response and was killed by a mob as he tried to flee the city.
James and his life guards rode up and down the streets all Monday, rescuing foreigners from the mob and attempting to keep order.
His residence at Apsley House was targeted by a mob of demonstrators on 27 April 1831 and again on 12 October, leaving his windows smashed.
A phalanx of policemen armed with lathis faced a mob of mill workers squatting on the road.
The mob attacked the prison gates with shovels and pickaxes, set the building ablaze, and released the prisoners inside.
I been find all my boy long Borroloola... me fella and Banjo find big mob girl too and boy.
That very evening, riots broke out in Derby, where a mob attacked the city jail and freed several prisoners.
Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
You can't win with small, balanced groups. You have to zerg the mob with a high number of players.
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An inflamed mob quickly destroyed the altars in the kirk, and attacked the Houses of the Greyfriars and Blackfriars, and the Carthusian Priory.
In June 1559 the abbey was attacked by a reformist mob from Dundee having been whipped up into a frenzy by the great reformer John Knox.
The abbey was severely damaged during this attack despite Knox's apparent efforts to calm the mob.
The mob then attacked two friaries in the town, looting their gold and silver and smashing images.
But even before their arrival, the mob had already sacked the churches and the friaries.
Green, Madden and Simpson were subjected to derision and insults by the mob before they were hanged.
After speaking at a meeting in Birmingham, Lloyd George had to be smuggled out disguised as a policeman, as his life was in danger from the mob.
The mob attacked him, pulling him off his horse and the badge off him, and he had to be rescued by the major from suffering serious harm.
On 25 August 1898, a Turkish mob massacred hundreds of Cretan Greeks, the British Consul and 17 British soldiers.
It can take approximately 700 hairnets, or 200 premium mob caps or sleeve covers so it is easy to refill.
A mob followed the young boy as he fled to his protector Queen Allogia, with the intent of killing him for his misdeed.
Gogoi met last evening with the Class XI student, who was molested on camera by a mob in Guwahati last week.
I sincerely hope all these people feel the fools they have been and have learned a lesson about mob mentality and panic buying.
A mob forcibly took gas masks from a distribution center in Jerusalem on Wednesday.
A giant zombie flash mob hit Hardman Street in the city centre last night, thanks in no small part to Wirral-born SFX specialist Shaune Harrison.
A flash mob performance was organised by the Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services to demonstrate cardiopulmonary resuscitation procedure.
In the resulting confusion, the Capitol was destroyed by fire and Vespasian's brother Sabinus was killed by a mob.
I said to one of the mob under the coolibah tree, an old man with a face which looked as if it had absorbed all the sadness in his life.
A mob went so far as to attack a carriage carrying George III in protest at the alleged betrayal.
In 519, when a mob had burned down the synagogues of Ravenna, Theoderic ordered the town to rebuild them at its own expense.
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The prime minister asserted that mob rule could not be tolerated by a responsible state.
The current Ukrainian troubles erupted after a democratically elected Government was toppled by mob rule in Maiden Square, Kiev.
It's hard not to think of The Sopranos, the Corleones and a million gangster movies when you hear their stories of murder, family and mob rule.
At a time when many casinos had mob connections, Summers gained notoriety as the best cardsharp in town.
Then there's the mob of plonkos who sleep down at the dockside, less than 700 yards from the city's Town Hall.
Cinna was then assassinated by a mob of unruly soldiers, leaving Carbo in sole command of Rome.
Their larger-than-life dean, the court poet Adrian Paunescu, had been nearly lynched by a furious mob who remembered his bootlicking verses.
One victim was a 61-year-old witch doctor, known locally as a Sangoma, who died when the mob burned down his home and set him alight in Khutsong.
At the nearby town of Fatehpur, a mob had attacked and murdered the local European population.
The audience at the CBS studios in Los Angeles soon warmed up and before long dozens of wannabe suitors then tried to mob the stage.
When crows, jays, or kingbirds spot a hawk, they often mob it because they don't want it around.
Art rock mob Explosions in the Sky take to the stage at Sunderland's Bar 36 on Monday for what promises to be an extraordinary gig.
In December 1531 a mob stormed the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen, encouraged by Copenhagen's fiery mayor, Ambrosius Bogbinder.
Yet for so public a figure, Jackson was socially awkward, inept at small talk and terrified when the distant audience became an adoring mob.
In the Kankiya area of Katsina state, a mob accused a pastor of murder after a body was found at the back of his church.
An angry mob brandishing machetes, stones, and knives lashed out.
Nevertheless, Macready performed the role again three days later to a packed house while an angry mob gathered outside.
During the Gordon Riots in 1780 a detachment of the Foot Guards successfully defended the Bank of England from a violent mob.
All you mob around here, you go to the supermart when you got cash, don't you?
According to Tommy, the mob uses swagmen like himself as down-the-line distributors for these large jobs.
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The place where jazz and barbeque and mob bosses and the blues flourished.
The mob of angry villagers carried torches and pitchforks to the vampire's castle.
Various Gotham characters, from the paternalistc mob boss to the middle-age crooner, texturize the piece.
It was reported on May 21, 2008 that in Kenya, a mob had burnt to death at least 11 people accused of witchcraft.
The angry mob smashed store windows and attacked people on the streets.
Like hungry dogs who have sniffed their meat, the mob bursts in, trampling down the women who sought to bar the entrance with their bodies.
Everybody knew Skopas fronted for the fight mob even though he was officially the arena manager.
The mob boss was known for having his enemies executed with a garrote of piano wire.
Many Loyalists realized that independence was bound to come eventually, but they were fearful that revolution might lead to anarchy, tyranny or mob rule.
The lynch mob included Jimmy Corkhill and Steve and Marty Murray.
When Billy was finally caught in 1881, Blandina visited him in prison before a lynch mob stormed the jail and strung him up alongside his brother Sam.
In contrast, the prevailing attitude among Patriots, who made systematic efforts to use mob violence in a controlled manner, was a desire to seize the initiative.
Only after Allogia had paid blood money for Olaf did the mob calm down.
William Hague and his mob have become Britain's first serial bickerers.
The mob overpowered security at Dimapur Central Prison in Nagaland and seized the rape suspect, whom they also accused of being an illegal migrant from Bangladesh.
Not all that far into the future, these wonky phrases will escape from editorial pages and policy papers to become the stuff of extortion, gunplay, and mob bosses.
When that was reported, a mob attacked Wellington's home in London.
He forced a fine save from Vanins before the break, after dispossessing Ritvars Rugins just inside the half and holding off the chasing mob to get his shot off.
Then their shiny World Cup pundits nest gets attacked by a mob of animal liberationists demanding Adrian Chiles be released back into the Midlands.
In fact, most of the mob did not know there was such a thing as a director, and it was the actors and the student orchestra whom the groundlings applauded.
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A hoodlumish mob of Democrats attacked a rival speaker at Smithfield, and the Republican chairman telegraphed Governor Russell for troops, a request with which he complied.
She had then heard a rumour that a mob from Oldham were planning to storm the track at Eccles to attack the Duke of Wellington, and decided to remain in the vicarage.
He's ordered to gun down targets sent back from 2044 by mob boss Abe.
An enthusiastic mob will scrag me to a certainty the day war breaks out.
At the side of the Great Hall of the People another armoured personnel carrier was surrounded by a mob of workers who smashed at it with iron bars.
False rumours of an impending Irish army attack on London circulated in the capital, and a mob of over 100,000 assembled ready to defend the city.
But after night fell two squad cars, parked about 200 yards from the station, were attacked by an angry mob which later swelled to hundreds of people.
Tasteful colour scheme, recalling in a nice way the happy reign of beige and cream before Llewelyn-Bowen and his mob got us anxiously rag-rolling the breakfast nook.
Twenty thousand National Guardsmen under the command of Lafayette responded to keep order, and members of the mob stormed the palace, killing several guards.
Athenians never knew real justice, only the will of the mob.
The militia tasked with controlling the situation fired into the mob.
Touts On Tour introduced us to that endangered species the Cockney spiv, while The Heist assembled a Lavender Hill mob of former villains to pull of a spoof robbery.
God knows what the other patients and staff made of a mob of blackfellas rocking up to visit one of our own, in a private room, to have a stickybeak at the new bub.
Mr Ebrahim described how he was with his son when a masked mob of rioters pelted his vehicle with firebombs on Shaikh Khalifa bin Salman Highway in August last year.
There was a bridge, but a mob of curious townspeople who wished to watch the execution had so clogged the bridge that the execution party could not cross.
Blake was reportedly in the front rank of the mob during the attack.
However, an angry mob climbed the walls of the building and, by dislodging the roof tiles and throwing them at the prisoners below, lynched those inside.
While performing hospital rounds one evening, Brown encounters a dying mobster who recognizes him from his former life as Pietro Brnwa, a contract hit man for a mob family.
In 1797, when Napoleon Bonaparte incorporated Genoa into the newly organized Ligurian Republic, French soldiers and the city's mob ransacked the doge's palace.
These two really don't like each other, and with so much pride at stake they are sure to go hell-for-leather to please the baying mob in the Echo Arena.

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