Sentence examples for great insurrection from inspiring English sources

This great insurrection, like its predecessors, will make us all richer.

The Islamic Revolution of 1979 against the Shah of Iran's expert-driven and radically disruptive modernization was one such ferocious upsurge the first "great insurrection against global systems," as Michel Foucault rightly called it.

The Carian satrap Mausolus (377 353), the first of the three sons of Hecatomnus who succeeded their father, took part in the great insurrection of the western satraps but later changed sides and conquered Phaselis and western Lycia for the Persian king.

During the "Great Insurrection" of 1877, when railroad strikers from coast to coast faced off against state militias, federal troops, and the private armies of the railroad barons, they were joined by regiments of the "reserve army".

Some believe the book was "written mostly to calm white fears that a greater insurrection might be at hand".

He was the military leader of the greatest insurrection ever mounted against the government of the United States.

The Great Tampon Insurrection has been a long time brewing.

Assuming enough people are using FireChat during the great robot insurrection, you could still get a message through to your loved ones.

This past week's revolution, arguably the greatest political insurrection since the dawn of the democratic era, offers further evidence that some political trends recognize no borders or boundaries.

And yet in all the dramas of 1989, this was the episode that most closely resembled the great urban insurrections of the 19th century.

More than 10 months after it started with the suicide of a Tunisian fruit vendor, the great wave of insurrection across the Arab world has toppled three autocrats and led last week in Tunisia to an election that many hailed as the dawn of a new era.