Sentence examples for incite a revolt from inspiring English sources

It also exposed Mr Thaksin as a demagogue who is ready to incite a revolt from his Dubai redoubt.

Two years later he and Richard Ingle seized the opportunity to incite a revolt in Maryland that expelled Governor Leonard Calvert, leaving Claiborne in control of the colony until 1646.

In one episode Kevin Spacey's character, Frank Underwood, tries to incite a revolt in the House and overthrow the current Speaker.

WASHINGTON — As every previous director could attest, succeeding at the helm at the Central Intelligence Agency requires an uneasy balance: being firm enough to impose a White House agenda without inciting a revolt, while winning allegiance at the agency without being co-opted by its bureaucracy.

Jack Valenti, the motion picture lobbyist who incited a revolt in Hollywood when the major studios barred DVD's or videotapes from being distributed for awards consideration in an effort to thwart piracy, announced Thursday that movies would be sent out to Academy Award voters.

Accepting tax increases would incite a Tea Party revolt.

The basic plan was to seize the army and incite a slave revolt.

It's the location of John Brown's raid, a failed military mission to incite a slave revolt which nonetheless stirred tensions which led to the Civil War.

According to Plutarch, Spartacus made a bargain with Cilician pirates to transport him and some 2,000 of his men to Sicily, where he intended to incite a slave revolt and gather reinforcements.

There, Pulaski attempted to incite a larger revolt against Russia; despite no decisive military successes, he was able to assemble a 4,000-strong 4,000-strongiver it barmyto andonfedeliverstagitg point.

He therefore planned to kill James by blowing up the House of Lords with gunpowder, following which he would help incite a popular revolt to install James's daughter, Princess Elizabeth, as titular Queen.