He became head of the Ségou Tukulor empire, whose predominantly Bambara inhabitants mounted constant revolts against his rule.
Since Republicans took control of the House last year, their leaders have had to deal with near-constant revolts from their Tea Party-infused right flank.
A woman who stormed the male chauvinist citadel that was the Tory Party, she lived with the constant threat of revolt, as she found out when they took turns stabbing her like Caesar on the steps of the Roman Senate.
Into this poem he compressed the theological justifications behind slavery, the global capitalist economy it created, the political system that codified it, the complicity of African slave traders in it, the sexual violence against enslaved women, and the constant threats of revolt.
After first thinking that Mesopotamia, as Iraq was then called, might be an ideal, oil-rich addition to empire, constant troubles and revolts made war-impoverished Britain think otherwise.
Whereas the basic form of, say, a Leninist party, a guerrilla army or even a ghetto riot has not changed in a century, once you use social networks the organisational format of revolt goes into constant flux.
In Beitchman's view, the revolt against cultivated beauty was a constant in Tzara's years of maturity, and his visions of social change continued to be inspired by Arthur Rimbaud and the Comte de Lautréamont.
The Salon revolt speaks volumes about the growing impatience that Web users are having with constant face lifts of their favorite sites or with sites that are difficult to navigate.
By the mid-11th century they were a constant menace to the peace in Thrace and Macedonia, and they encouraged the spirit of revolt in Bulgaria among the Bogomils, who had been denounced as heretics.
Throughout that spring and early summer, the French army was in almost constant mutiny: in May 1796, in the border town of Zweibrücken, the 74th Demi-brigade revolted.
