Sentence examples for a massive revolt from inspiring English sources

Without that, the party conference in September will see a massive revolt.

According to Thucydides, they would have done it had they not been detained by a massive revolt of the helots, who had taken advantage of an earthquake to occupy the strong position of Ithome in Messenia.

Or your child is president of the student body and has instigated a massive revolt among the students.

It faced a massive revolt from the party's rabid right-wing populist base complete with a name, the Tea Party.

The rumours that the Igbo women were being assessed for taxation sparked off the 1929 Igbo Women's War in Aba (also known as the 1929 Aba Riots), a massive revolt of women never encountered before in Igbo history.

"Our challenge is to let the court see they're not going to get away with this without a massive public revolt," Mr. Schubert said.

Which is why there was a massive slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue in 1791, leading eventually to the establishment of Haiti as the first black republic.

In 2010, Rosarno witnessed a massive immigrant revolt after some locals shot the workers with an air rifle.

But trying to destroy us they have given birth to a movement -- a movement that is becoming a massive, nonviolent revolt across the country.

In late 1733 a massive revolt occurred on the Danish-controlled island of St. John (now in the U.S. Virgin Islands).

New York Times reported last December that US State Department has indirectly funded workshops on organising civil disobedience, hoping to foment massive revolts in Iran and overthrow the regime.