Sentence examples for biggest insurrection from inspiring English sources

This has always been a touchy subject — especially in the South, and most especially during the Reconstruction period, after the biggest insurrection in American history had been successfully suppressed.

But a delay would be sure to set off an even bigger insurrection.

It was also the scene of the last big armed insurrection in mainland Britain – the Chartist rising in 1839.

A voodoo ceremony in August 1791 is said to have helped trigger Haiti's first big slave insurrection against the French colonisers.

The insurrection is thought to be biggest in the provinces of Eastern Cape, Western Cape and Northern Cape.

Getting drunk was an insurrection, a revolution — a bad one.

The libertarian, a boastful ideologue, had supported the congressional insurrection.

Desperation, submission or disguise, as FOB reapply for the job of biggest band in the world, it somehow feels like a pop insurrection worth backing.

While al-Assad increasingly faces armed insurrection from those weary of life in his Big Brother world, the most potent weapon in opposition hands is the mobile phone.

For diversion, the dance of the eunuchs, or more aptly, swaying, prancing and skipping, signals the preparation of the harem girls for the big audition: to replace the rebel wife of King Xerxes who leads an insurrection against her libertine husband.

Hamas's military wing has reportedly called Mr Fayyad a "traitor", prompting him to beef up his security detail.Another big challenge will be to impose law and order in the West Bank, not only against possible insurrection by Hamas, but against armed militias loyal to other parties (including Fatah) and criminal gangs.