Sentence examples for failed revolt from inspiring English sources

Babbitt carries out his failed revolt -- and Lewis advanced his enormously successful critique -- in the name of individualism.

A series of interviews with Haitians and Cubans led him to the story of Makandal, an escaped slave from a sugar plantation who led the failed revolt.

Similarly, in 1959, when the Dalai Lama fled to exile in India after a failed revolt and declared Tibetan independence, Britain, India and the United States again continued to accept Tibet as part of China.

Many are like Rahim Altalebawi, a former member of the Iraqi Army who escaped to this country after the Persian Gulf war in 1991, when he joined a failed revolt against Mr. Hussein.

After a failed revolt in A.D. 47 they became a client kingdom of the empire, with Prasutagus as their leader.

Ríus, did not participated directly in the revolt because at the time he was studying law in Spain, however he was an avid reader about information pertaining to the Antilles and learned about the failed revolt.

Argentine naval units assisted failed revolts in Argentina, but the continuing acrimony with and naval acquisitions of Chile meant this had little effect.

Nor is the subjugation to Great Britain given anything but terse summary of the failed revolts and reluctant concessions that brought India under British control.

There's an old adage, beloved of Stephen King, which says that scary fiction variously aims to horrify, terrify or (if all else fails) revolt.

His journey to the west began after the failed Tibetan revolt against Chinese occupation in 1959.

After staging a failed barracks revolt against his dismissal as army commander in 1996, he was eventually sentenced to ten years in jail.