Sentence examples for biggest revolt from inspiring English sources

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.

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

Standard Chartered, HSBC's rival emerging markets bank, last week suffered the biggest revolt on a pay policy so far when 41% of shareholder votes opposed its proposed bonus terms for top executives.

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.

Ten of the 16 biggest revolts at blue chip companies have come this year.

Tesco suffered one of the biggest revolts in years when nearly half its investors failed to back its remuneration policy.

Now it could instigate a big revolt of backbenchers.

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

Premier Foods suffered a bigger revolt, with 26% shareholders voting against its remuneration report that included a £419,205 payoff for former boss Robert Schofield, and a £1.5m golden hello for new chief executive Michael Clarke.