Hard-to-control groups

Usage examples of mobs.

In February 1956 Eisenhower did nothing when white mobs went on a rampage at the University of Alabama and chased black applicant Autherine Lucy out of town.

They will be the James Merediths, courageously andwitha majestic sense of purpose, facing jeering and hostile mobs and the agonizing loneliness that characterizes the life of the pioneer.

To get down to fundamentals, tell us just what kind of range you have driven mobs of cattle over--how far--what kind of obstacles--how you worked.

The demagogues collected mobs round the courthouse to intimidate the judges, and the judges proved as base as the accusers themselves.

The traffic, crowds and noise increased never had Eliste heard such noise, or seen such mobs of noisy, pushy, busy people.

There was fighting going on all around, mad-eyed mobs attacking each other with spells and weapons and anything that came to hand.

Whole areas were burning, out of control, while monsters roamed the streets and panicked mobs ran this way and that.

Crazed mobs rioted up and down the street, and swept right past us without even slowing.

The mobs and monsters had all moved on, probably because there was nothing left in the Square to destroy, and no-one left to kill.

The main duty of the Crime and Bomb Squad was to combat the organized and growing mobs of the Prohibition era Detroit underworld.

He never dared to appear in public without a bodyguard of prizefighters, and even so was nearly killed by mobs on several occasions.

Angry mobs demonstrated against Hutchinson and the other letter writers.

When many clergymen were lecherous drunks, like Churchill and Laurence Sterne, and in addition ministers, were urging mobs to burn women for witchcraft, freethinkers were likely to regard religion with suspicion if not with actual hatred.

Then the mobs get too big and you have to have a war to make them smaller.

He was a man comfortable with mobs, having spent a career stirring the embers of racial hatred.