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No wonder St Ives has led a revolt to stem the flow.

Now Rwanda backed a revolt to topple Kabila, too.That was how the war started in August 1998.

In 1185 the brothers Ivan and Peter Asen of Tŭrnovo launched a revolt to throw off Byzantine sovereignty.

For months Mr Haq said he tried to sell the idea of a revolt to the American administration but with little success.

The head of a small fief, in 1331 Kusunoki joined the emperor Go-Daigo in a revolt to wrest the power of government from the shogunate, the hereditary military dictatorship that had dominated Japan since 1192.

It was as if the kindly old relative we all knew for decades stood up during Thanksgiving dinner and announced that he never did like turkey and was leading a revolt to cook a ham next year.

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The government has been rattled enough by a pensioner revolt to offer a big inflation-beating increase in the basic state pension in an election year.

David Cameron is suffering from a similar headache over an internal revolt to the one that undermined John Major 22 years ago (example here).

It took a shareholder revolt to force Citi to act in the first place.

In 1848, workers joined with liberals in a democratic revolt to overthrow the French monarchy.

But the fact that they're spontaneously committing to the intervention, that the regional attitude is friendly towards a popular revolt to overthrow Mr Qaddafi and towards UN-approved intervention to protect that revolt, makes a huge difference.

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