Sentence examples for cause of revolution from inspiring English sources
For them Miró summoned all the virtuosity that in the cause of revolution he had labored so hard to suppress.
After a stint in jail (for "inciting to riot") and a brief career as a nurse, Goldman took up the cause of revolution in Russia.
The light is hazy with halation; you worry that Assayas might be idolizing the guy, but you realize soon enough that Carlos is a chronic self-dramatizer, and that all the outrages to follow are committed less in the cause of revolution, whatever he claims, than in that of vanity.
Apparently invoking a line from Lei Feng's official diary that schoolchildren once memorized, "My only ambition is to be a rustless screw for the great cause of revolution," Mr. Ren called the legend a naked propaganda tool "for turning all citizens into screws that can be willfully placed anywhere".
Nechaev had authored a pamphlet, The Catechism of a Revolutionary, which argued that any means (including blackmail and murder) could be used to advance the cause of revolution.
In the 1770's, the "Glorious Cause" of revolution attracted an amazing crop of principled, able leaders.
Still others have focussed on governing elites and their composition and have seen in the alienation of the elite from the mass the prime cause of revolutions and other forms of violent political change.
But, rather than elaborating on the causes of revolution, Putin switched to his perpetual theme: "We need history's lessons primarily for reconciliation and for strengthening the social, political and civil concord that we have managed to achieve".
Mr. Lemann has written two books that find the unnoticed causes of revolutions, "The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America," and his history of the SAT, "The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy".
The Politics contains not only a firm statement of these principles but also a penetrating analysis of how city-states are governed, as well as of the causes of revolutions, in which "inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior".
