Sentence examples for big revolt from inspiring English sources

Now it could instigate a big revolt of backbenchers.

Labour's former Cabinet minister Peter Hain, who stood down at the election, said there had been "a big, big revolt against the political class", with the SNP and Ukip the beneficiaries, adding that "Labour has to learn the lessons from that".

Only by vowing to consider amendments later was the government able to avoid a big revolt from Labour critics.The legislation sets out to punish "threatening, abusive or insulting" words or behaviour that are consciously intended to stir up religious hatred, or likely to have that effect on people.

But it is unclear whether Mr Mujuru, who has hedged his bets in the past, is directly involved in Mr Makoni's brave or rash bid.Mr Mugabe would struggle to see off a big revolt within his ZANU-PF, especially if it were in cahoots with the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).

And there were big revolts against Mr Blair's education bill and the renewal of the Trident missile system in this parliament, both of which were carried only with Tory help.

This is the biggest revolt in the police force in Egypt history.

If most of those Tories stand firm Cameron will suffer the biggest revolt against his leadership so far.

The biggest revolt was at Man Group, the world's largest listed hedge fund firm at its annual meeting in London.

This satisfied nobody, and exposed the president as an indecisive meddler.At the same time, a bigger revolt broke out, this time over taxes.

BSkyB suffered its biggest revolt on pay in years as 37 per cent of independent shareholders who voted were against the remuneration report.

Last May, in the biggest revolt in this parliament, 65 Labour backbenchers voted against cuts to incapacity benefit in the bill and 14 abstained, far outstripping the revolt over the cut to one-parent benefits.