Sentence examples for acts of revolt from inspiring English sources

Sony has thus managed to shift attention away from its own failure to protect client data, while federal agencies have been diverted into a pursuit of us, this time for a massive theft rather than popular acts of revolt.

But their greatest act of revolt was rallying behind Menachem Begin and his Likud party.

I did not vote," she said.Perhaps the most symbolic act of revolt has occurred on a road that exudes Kremlin power.

Vice: Why did you get into the whole teddy-boy thing in the 70s? Malcolm McLaren: I did it as an act of revolt against the hippies.

On Twitter, she sought to explain by declaring that she is "for the truth" – a statement that was retweeted ad infinitum as requests flooded in for her to elaborate on what had led to her very public act of revolt.

This in itself is an act of revolt that identifies the artists on the side of the Left, despite that their art would later be associated with corporate institutions and CIA backing (see 1950-2011).

Elena Ferrante's quartet of Neapolitan novels all contain small but thrilling acts of feminist revolt.

But his main focus now is preparing for the second act of the revolt with a big congress in March which will formally take up Breton grievances.

31), a Western, begins with an act of violent revolt, as a prisoner, Mae Madison (Ann Sheridan), escapes and flees to a distant outpost, where she resumes her song-and-dance career under the florid name of Vermillion O'Toole.

When Panahi makes a film now, it's an act of political revolt — and, when he films himself making a film, it adds the element of derision, of contempt for the absurd application of absurd laws.

Immediately, several other young men imitated the act — if jihadism is one form of revolt in Tunisia, suicide is another.