1.   A similar previous episode touched off a near riot in Riverton City.

2.   His exchanges with the players were thought to have contributed to a near riot in the audience.

3.   In February, a meeting of the national committee dissolved into a near riot and police threatened several times to intervene and bring the proceedings to a halt.

4.   Instead, he defused racial tensions, including a near riot at Camp LeJeune, N.C., with programs to enhance cultural awareness and eliminate discrimination.

5.   Mark McGwire was thrown out for arguing a strike call in the first, causing a near riot.

6.   Organizers refused to open polling sites, touching off a near riot.

7.   The near riot was sparked by two teenage girls who began to fight on the sidewalks of Mill Avenue at Seventh Street.

8.   When the bartender once again asked him to check his coat, McCourt complied, leaving himself buck naked in front of the diners and causing a near riot.

9.   Woods finished one stroke back, earning a standing ovation from a huge crowd and setting off a near riot when he flipped his ball into the stands.

10.   Critics said police were much to blame for the snowballing of the highway protest into a near riot.