Sentence examples for a small insurrection from inspiring English sources

There was a small insurrection.

There are signs that people are starting to draw the line, that a small insurrection may be in the making.

In 1941, after Roosevelt's mother died, he attempted a small insurrection and brought down her cook from Hyde Park, Mary Campbell, to prepare meals for him in a tiny top-floor kitchen.

The condo explosion has inspired a small insurrection in this corner of southwest Brooklyn, where long-time residents like Lorraine Lapetina, president of the Gravesend/Bensonhurst Quality of Life Committee, have urged the city to take action.

Edwards, meanwhile, has the small issue of a minor insurrection to deal with.

A small-time insurrection was taking place in Canada.

Her messages in suit pockets are small insurrections; so are the bits of poetry she recites (Müller is a poet and a good one); so is her obdurate resistance to the overtures of her corrupt boss.

What began 43 years ago as a small but violent peasant insurrection in Naxalbari, a West Bengal village, is now a full-fledged conflict led by the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) across 20 of the country's 28 states (see map below), affecting 223 districts.

Leonhard in Passeier to visit the inn where Hofer planned his insurrection as well as a small, sad and obscenely overfunded museum dedicated to his career as a freedom fighter.

The resentment that much of Syria's Sunni Muslim majority felt at being ruled by a member of a small Shia sect culminated in a bloody Islamist insurrection in the town of Hama in 1982.

In each case, the Institute on Religion and Democracy, a small organization based in Washington, has helped incubate traditionalist insurrections against the liberal politics of the denomination's leaders.