Sentence examples for fiscal revolt from inspiring English sources

In a clever propaganda coup, they adopted red woolly hats, or bonnets rouges, in a nod to the headgear worn during a 1675 uprising in Brittany against taxes imposed by Louis XIV.The fiscal revolt took the government by surprise.

The plan, still under debate, is to revert to the previous tax rate, but only if an entrepreneur holds on to his business for, say, five years.Had the fiscal revolt been led by established employers' groups, it might have been dismissed as special pleading.

A pagan reaction against Christianity combined with revolt against fiscal and administrative burdens to bring about a popular uprising.

Recently, two factors have pushed fiscal conservatives into open revolt: Congressional "Pork".

The fiscal situation has prompted a revolt within the organization.

Anger over the county's fiscal woes, which fueled a voter revolt that ended decades of Republican rule last November, does not seem to have abated.

Robert D. Franks, a former United States representative and fiscal conservative who used the tax revolt of the early 1990s to reinvigorate the Republican Party in New Jersey, and who came surprisingly close to defeating Jon S. Corzine for the United States Senate in 2000, died late Friday.

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.

After states inevitably began reducing services in the early 1980s, voters who had fallen for the cheap and easy promises of the tax revolt proved susceptible to another fiscal cure-all.

Libya: Why the people revolted in this North African fiscal paradise is a mystery.

"It's a way for local government to deal with fiscal constraints in the post-property-tax-revolt years".