Sentence examples for army uprising from inspiring English sources

No one likes coups; but surely Captain Camara could only be better than his shockingly corrupt and despotic predecessor, President Lansana Conté, whose death sparked the army uprising.

Twice the Thais have turned to Mr Chuan and his Democrats in their hour of need: after the bloody army uprising of 1992, and again after the collapse of the baht in 1997.

But clearly the administration is gambling on catching a break — perhaps  an army uprising, the gradual starvation of a regime addicted to cash, maybe a stray bullet or lucky missile strike that ends a dictator's 40-year rule.

President Vieira was ousted in May 1999, though only after the army uprising against him turned into a war, with the French-speaking neighbors, Senegal and the Republic of Guinea, sending thousands of troops to support him.

A flood of books, a major museum exhibition last year and a television documentary in January have helped the country re-examine the terror of the 1936 army uprising and civil war that brought Franco to power.

This onetime redoubt of political stability and steady growth in West Africa has been through a lot in the last year: the fall of an unpopular president, the first coup in its history and military misrule that twice in the last month raised the possibility of another army uprising.

For the next 50 years, the country remained imprisoned in a disastrous cycle in which authoritarian military rule gave way to civilian governments so inept that they provoked new army uprisings, culminating in the brutal dictatorship in which more than 20,000 people disappeared between 1976 and 1983.

French Republican forces in the Mediterranean, under pressure from Austrian and Spanish armies, Royalist uprisings and British blockade had suffered the loss of their principal naval base and the fleet stationed there when British forces under Lord Hood seized Toulon at the invitation of the city's Royalist faction.

And having defected early in the uprising, army units, too, will claim their stake in the new order.

He thinks that if he'd had a real Army the Falluja uprising would never have taken place.

The Dalai Lama, who fled Tibet in 1959 after the Chinese Army crushed an uprising there, is a powerful symbol of Tibet's resistance to China's suppression of its religious culture.