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Discover LudwigThe phrase "abortive uprising" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a failed or unsuccessful rebellion or revolt against authority.
Example: "The government swiftly quelled the abortive uprising, restoring order to the region."
Alternatives: "failed rebellion" or "unsuccessful revolt".
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Venner attempted another, equally abortive uprising in January 1661.
Defeated, he escaped to England but returned again in 1830 for another abortive uprising.
The abortive uprising of 1866, and the deaths of O'Donnell (1867) and Narváez (1868), weakened her position further.
In 1601 Robert Catesby was imprisoned and fined for joining the abortive uprising of Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of Essex.
He has lived in exile in Dharmsala, India, since fleeing Tibet amid an abortive uprising against Chinese rule in 1959.
Likewise, Syria blithely killed about 20,000 people in crushing an abortive uprising in the city of Hama in 1982.
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Gen. Frank Vargas Pazzos, who was jailed after leading two abortive uprisings last March.
There is some risk that this ends up like the abortive uprisings in Hungary in 1956, in Czechoslovakia in 1968, or in southern Iraq in 1991.
India, after all, has seen many abortive uprisings.
After the abortive republican uprising of 1866, he was sentenced to death but escaped to France.
He joined the Mensheviks, and took part in the abortive 1905 uprising.
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