Sentence examples for in a revolt from inspiring English sources

This might seem odd for a country that was born in a revolt against hereditary privilege.

In 1052 Gisulph's father, Gaimar V, was assassinated in a revolt.

In 1959 Tibetan resentment erupted in a revolt against Chinese rule, soon suppressed.

He was finally deposed in a revolt on Oct. 23, 1862, and returned to Bavaria.

After participating in a revolt of satraps in Persia, he again joined Cotys.

Byzantine emperor from 685 to 695 but deposed in a revolt.

Hissène Habré became President in 1982, in a revolt sponsored by the C.I.A.

Edith Sitwell (1887 1964) attracted attention when she joined her brothers in a revolt against Georgian poetry.

In 1956, thousands of Hungarians took to the streets in a revolt against the Soviet-backed Communist government.

In the late sixteenth century, an earlier representative of that family, William of Orange, led the Dutch in a revolt against…who?

One was destroyed in a revolt in 1869, another was bombed in an attack in 1912 in which the president was killed.