Sentence examples for dramatic revolt from inspiring English sources

The first is a dramatic revolt against the system, led by either a third-party candidate or a charismatic maverick like Mr McCain.

One of the most dramatic shareholder revolts in recent years was staged on Thursday when City veteran Sir John Bond was ousted from the board of Glencore Xstrata and replaced as chairman by Tony Hayward, the former BP boss whose reputation hit rock bottom during the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

But Mr. Gibson has reportedly long been interested in the dramatic potential of the Maccabee revolt, which took place during the second century B.C.

But Mr. Gibson has reportedly long been interested in the dramatic potential of the Maccabee revolt, which took place during the second century B.C. and is told in the Old Testament books First and Second Maccabees.

"Spectator" in the New York Dramatic Mirror condemned the venture as "revolting": Saved from the Titanic is now considered a lost film, as the only known prints were destroyed in a fire at Éclair Studios in March 1914.

The Dalai Lama delivered his speech Thursday in Dharamsala on the anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule, the failed revolt that led to his dramatic escape through the Himalayas into India.

The Birth of a Nation, Nate Parker's film about the Nat Turner slave revolt, won both the US dramatic audience award and the grand jury prize at the 32nd Sundance film festival awards.

Back in the 1970s, Ayatollah Khomeini led a revolt against the Shah that saw a dramatic shift in government rule.

His most dramatic step was an astonishing fiscal volte-face to quell a Labour Party revolt against the abolition of the 10% income-tax band.

True enough, but Laurent, if I haven't misunderstood you, you are not so much asking about revolution — dramatic, wide-reaching change — as you are reaching back to Revolution — political revolt that ushers in a new social order).

And this – perhaps the most dramatic event in Britain since the war – was, above all else, a working-class revolt.