Sentence examples for dissident tribes from inspiring English sources

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Muhammad died three months later, and dissident tribes, eager to reassert their independence and stop payment of the zakāt, rose in revolt.

By ad 830, however, they were appearing on the west banks of the Don River and, as a body, consisted of seven tribes, who had been joined by three dissident tribes of Khazars known as Kavars.

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That is, Mr. Kony gave Mr. Museveni an excuse to suppress dissident northern tribes and collect international aid.

During the Jebel Akhdar war of 1954-7, towntowaswas bombed by the RAF at the request of Said bin Taimur, the sultan, in an attempt to destroy the dissident Beni Riyam tribe.

When Sargon succeeded to the Assyrian throne, Marduk-apal-iddina II (Merodach-Baladan of the Old Testament), a dissident chieftain of the Chaldean tribes in the marshes of southern Babylonia, committed the description of his victory over the invading Assyrian armies (720 bc) to writing on a clay cylinder, which he deposited in the city of Uruk (biblical Erech; modern Tall al-Warkāʾ).

Christians in Islamic State held territory, along with other religious minorities, some Sunni tribes, and political dissidents, have been persecuted by the militants, and dozens of churches in Mosul, Iraq, have reportedly been destroyed.

The idea, as British officials explain it, is for Mr. Brahimi to construct plans for a broad-based government of the various tribes, including new dissidents formerly allied with the Taliban, that can satisfy Pakistan as well as India, Iran, Russia and China.

With its leadership largely composed of members of the African Zaghawa tribe, and reportedly supported by dissident Zaghawa military officers from across the border in Chad, the group presented a hazy list of grievances against Khartoum, most centering on the political and economic neglect of Darfur in general and of the African tribes in particular.

I always fancied the raffish, dissident Jack, though I'm not sure he would have accepted me in his tribe.

Black Hawk, White Cloud, and Napope (the most important of the younger but relatively inexperienced rebellious chiefs) led a group of the dissident Sauk and Fox, Kickapoo, and Ho-Chunk that formed what was effectively a separate tribe.

Red River Indian War, (1874 75), uprising of warriors from several Indian tribes thought to be peacefully settled on Oklahoma and Texas reservations, ending in the crushing of the Indian dissidents by the United States.

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