Sentence examples for a wave of revolt from inspiring English sources

And his age-old resignation was swept aside by a wave of revolt, now that he was dying in this pit, after being merely blinded by it.

Since June 2, when the price of public transportation in São Paulo, Brazil, rose from R$3 to R$3.20, the Free Pass Movement has initiated protests that have turned into a wave of revolt.

The Radicals are particularly incensed at a wave of revolts at state-run companies and institutions that have fired officials and managers from the old guard and replaced them with "crisis committees" of workers or former managers.

CAIRO -- A Tunisian court on Tuesday dismissed the case against a policewoman accused of slapping the Tunisian street vendor whose subsequent self-immolation set off a wave of revolts across Tunisia and the Arab world, Tunisia's official news agency, TAP, reported.

Damascus has accused Turkey of allowing weapons and funds to flow to insurgents throughout the 13-month-old uprising, the latest in a wave of revolts against rulers across the Arab world.

Christians are to be accepted as long as they acknowledge Sisi's regime as their protector and shield; that means their political voices are arrogated by the conservative church leadership, which was shaken by a wave of internal revolt in the aftermath of Mubarak's fall but has since reasserted its authority and proved a staunch backer of the authoritarian status quo.

Told to wait his turn by mentor Jeb Bush after battling his way into the Senate on a wave of Tea Party revolt against the party's preferred pick, this son of a Cuban bartender was once viewed among the quintessential outsiders.

This year, there has been a wave of factory revolts across six provinces in China, according to Hong Kong-based China Workers' Info.

Her speech echoed one in mid-January, just before the president of Tunisia was ousted in the first salvo in what became a wave of regional revolts.

The cumulative impact of watching the bombs drop, villages on fire and a country being doused with napalm and Agent Orange triggered a wave of global revolts not seen on such a scale before or since.

The bloodless coup was part of a wave of popular revolts, known as color revolutions, that remain a source of anger and suspicion among Russian officials, who consider them Washington-hatched schemes meant to undermine Russia's influence in the region.