Sentence examples for big uprising from inspiring English sources

"We haven't seen the big uprising yet, but it will come".

There'd be a big uprising there," said an island resident, Sylvia Ross, who has been eating Pilot Crackers for most of her 76 years.

In a big uprising in 1988 and again in last year's protests, the army has shown it will not hesitate to shed as much blood as is necessary to deter any challenge.

Almost immediately, the Acehnese began fighting to regain their independence and, in 1959, after repressing a big uprising, Sukarno gave the province a special status, conferring autonomy in areas such as education and religion.

"There will probably not be a big uprising," he says.

I always have the feeling that the big uprisings will happen at night.

In 1988, during the biggest uprising in Burma's modern history, thousands were killed.

Soon the tension boiled over into the neighborhood, setting off a contagion of mayhem that became known as the Watts riots — the biggest uprising by blacks in the United States since the slave revolts.

As daily life accommodates the Middle East's biggest uprising in decades, a brittle normality has, however briefly, taken hold.That is better than the violence that had threatened to engulf the protests.

It has been claimed that Egyptians staged the biggest uprising in history in the last few weeks.

The recent protests in Egypt were said to have been the biggest uprising in human history, with more than 30 million people taking to the streets to voice their opposition to President Morsi before he was ousted by the army.