How to Use hooliganism in a Sentence

hooliganism

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  • That includes 10 cases of theft, three of hooliganism and two of fraud.
    — Fox News, 26 May 2018
  • The mood around most England games, on foreign soil, is now not one of full-fledged hooliganism.
    — New York Times, 16 July 2021
  • The NHL in recent weeks seems more like hooliganism rather than hockey.
    — Dave Banks, WIRED, 18 Apr. 2012
  • During the height of hooliganism in the ’70s and ’80s, fighting sometimes broke out between rival sets of fans.
    — New York Times, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The September episode that led to the hooliganism charges centered on a suspicious bag at a bus stop.
    — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The activists were charged with piracy (later lessened to hooliganism) and threatened with 15 years in prison.
    — Abe Streep, Outside Online, 13 Mar. 2015
  • Sure, the conditions were chilly and wet, but the amount of hooliganism at the ready, even when using well shy of this car's full 668 horsepower, can almost seem reckless.
    — Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 26 Aug. 2022
  • After the April camp invasion, C14's Mazur was charged with hooliganism.
    — Yuras Karmanau and Evgeny Maloletka, Fox News, 6 Aug. 2018
  • The establishment’s owner called the police, who charged the husband and wife with petty hooliganism.
    — Valerie Hopkins Nanna Heitmann, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
  • In contrast, the English National Team was still tinged by a legacy of xenophobic hooliganism in its fan base and the brazen consumption of its stars.
    — Roger Bennett, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Some video game communities, in other words, have give risen to a new brand of digital hooliganism.
    — Simon Parkin, Time, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Most crimes committed in the district in 2014 were drunken fights, robberies, and hooliganism, according to the Moscow Times.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 19 Nov. 2014
  • So has hooliganism and violence, which is so common that some groups of fans travel to games in armored vehicles.
    — Time, 3 Oct. 2022
  • But conditioned by hooliganism to look out for threats to public order and not to public safety, police were slow to respond.
    — Sarah Begley, Time, 28 June 2017
  • Minds leapt ahead to June 2018, when fans from England and other nations come to Russia, where hooliganism is deeply entrenched in soccer culture.
    — Mark Zeigler, sandiegouniontribune.com, 13 June 2018
  • Off the pitch Away from the stadiums, soccer officials are hoping the host nation can avoid a resurgence of soccer hooliganism.
    — Siobhan Morrin, Time, 13 June 2018
  • More than 50 countries on six continents have seen some level of soccer hooliganism.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2022
  • Fans are strongly attached to their clubs, and such fanaticism often ends in violence and hooliganism.
    — Edna Tarigan, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2022
  • This new-blood Auburn basketball, with a fanbase that feels like soccer hooliganism dipped in a deep fryer, is something blue-blood college basketball isn’t quite sure what to do with.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 18 Jan. 2022
  • Black people had long been seen as culturally predisposed to crime and hooliganism.
    — Pankaj Mishra, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2017
  • But while hooliganism within English soccer has been confined to the fringes in recent decades, abuse aimed at Black players — both in stadiums and on social media — remains a problem to this day.
    — Luke Denne, NBC News, 17 June 2020
  • And the issue of hooliganism arose again last month as more than 100 England fans were arrested in Amsterdam for public disorder around their friendly game against the Netherlands.
    — Sandy Thin, CNN, 5 Apr. 2018
  • While initially, the police fed false stories to the media over why 96 lives were ended that day - blaming Liverpool fans' hooliganism for the human crush, recent years have seen the blame rightfully placed on the policing.
    — SI.com, 29 June 2018
  • In many other countries, including our opponent last night, the state has taken serious measures to get rid of hooliganism.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Oct. 2019
  • England was infamous in an earlier era for the ugliness of soccer hooliganism, and some fans in Russia have been accused of throwing Nazi salutes and chanting racist and anti-Semitic songs.
    — Ceylan Yeginsu, New York Times, 10 July 2018
  • Similar systems in countries like Italy, which introduced an ID system for away fans in league games in 2009 to combat hooliganism, have been blamed for driving away spectators.
    — Washington Post, 14 June 2019
  • There have certainly been acts of cultural hooliganism in areas occupied by the Russians.
    — CNN, 9 May 2022
  • The mass annulment of IDs does not appear to be connected to a separate blacklist of those convicted for hooliganism and firework use at games, which bars 191 fans from attending any sports events in Russia.
    — James Ellingworth, The Seattle Times, 18 June 2017
  • Evidently, the presence of the encased meats was provoking hooliganism.
    — Christian Schneider, National Review, 22 Dec. 2022
  • But officials are taking a hard line, warning that anyone displaying hooliganism could face a lifetime ban at stadiums.
    — Ben Zimmer, WSJ, 15 July 2021

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