Sentence examples for frequent uprisings from inspiring English sources

The foundations of the bakufu began to be shaken by the increasing power of the shugo and by the frequent uprisings of local samurai and farmers.

Amatzia Baram, the Iraq expert at the University of Haifa, told me that in 1999 Iraqi troops in white biohazard suits suddenly surrounded the Shiite holy city of Karbala, in southern Iraq, which has been the scene of frequent uprisings against Saddam.

There was no mention of the frequent uprisings against priests.

During the 19th and 20th centuries, the Great Zab basin saw frequent uprisings of local Kurdish tribes striving for autonomy.

Specifically, in autocracies, greater transparency is associated with more frequent mass uprisings.

Andrew Berends, a documentary filmmaker who lives in Brooklyn, only had the chance to make a phone call about 15 hours after he was detained by Nigerian officials while gathering footage of women at a market in the Niger Delta, an area rich with oil and with frequent militant uprisings.

Pro-Umayyad uprisings were frequent and received Palestinian support.

But in Tibetan areas, where there remains a great deal of support for the Dalai Lama, there are frequent reports of small uprisings.

According to an official of one aid group, ambulances on emergency missions at the height of the uprising met frequent and sometimes inexplicable delays.

The frequent bouts of violence since the uprising, played out on news bulletins around the world, have discouraged many visitors from returning.

Across the region, what amounted to small uprisings against the government were frequent.