Sentence examples for general revolt from inspiring English sources

The result, in 1997, was large-scale financial collapse, accompanied by general revolt.

Acts of violence against the state or the populace would show the state's power was illusory and stir a general revolt.

Edi Rama (pictured), head of the opposition Socialist Party, has called for a general revolt against the government of Sali Berisha.

She went to Paris in 1968 to work at the Musée de l'Homme, arriving just in time to witness the student uprising that became a general revolt.

Tone himself, however, was anticlerical and hoped for a general revolt against religious creeds in Ireland as a sequel to the attainment of Irish political freedom.

Pragmatism was a part of a general revolt against the overly intellectual, somewhat fastidious, and closed systems of idealism in 19th-century philosophy.

The generals' revolt of 2006 has resonated.

Twice he was target of a "generals' revolt"; in summer 2001 and early 2006.

Dionne thinks the generals' revolt could have a salutary effect beyond leading to Rumsfeld's removal by signifying that the military no longer considers itself a Republican institution.

The Generals' Revolt The full dimensions of this mutual embrace were perhaps never clearer than in April 2006, after several of Mr. Rumsfeld's former generals — none of them network military analysts — went public with devastating critiques of his wartime performance.

In the spring of 2006, as the war in Iraq risked spiraling into civil war, a group of retired officers openly called for firing Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in what became known as "the generals' revolt".