Sentence examples for a mutiny over from inspiring English sources

The Libyans said they were ready in principle to pay compensation to relatives of the victims of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.Soldiers continued a mutiny over pay in a remote eastern area of Niger but released some hostages.

Thirty-nine yeafterfter independence from France, Ivory Coast experienced its first military coup in December 1999 when a mutiny over pay turned into a revolt that brought Gen. Robert Guei to power.

Yet all she could say was: "He's never liked me since I had to stop vacuuming because of my back".' When another (pregnant) worker at The Maids falls and sprains her ankle, she is too afraid of losing her job to admit to Ted what has happened - and her colleagues are too terrified of losing theirs to join Ehrenreich in a mutiny over her plight.

Consequently, when in 943 a mutiny over pay issues broke out among their troops (mostly composed of Turks, Daylamites, Carmathians and only a few Arabs), under the leadership of the Turk Tuzun, they were forced to quit Baghdad.

Tells about elections in the state of Tabasco--the local PRI contingent staged a mutiny and took over.

Already on September 22, Sapieha asked Paderewski to gauge the possible reaction of the League in case military units in the Kresy decided to attack Vilnius, following the example of the Italian Gabriele D'Annunzio, who in 1919 staged a mutiny and took over the city of Fiume.

Facing declining popularity, a deep financial crisis and a near mutiny over its legal plans from some professionals, the government now admits that there will not be time to force through many of its legal reforms before the next presidential election in 2012, given a tight legislative and political calendar.

In May, frustrated soldiers mutinied over back pay and miserable living conditions, taking the army's second in command as a hostage until their demands were met.

On board the invasion ship heading for Provence in August 1944, there's a near mutiny over the denial of certain food, most specifically tomatoes, to Africans.

Peng participated in a failed mutiny over pay, but was pardoned.

They seized power in December after a mutiny in the military over low pay, charging that President Henri Konan Bedie was creating ethnic division in the country.