Sentence examples for inciting a revolt from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Federal law prohibits the Census Bureau from cooperating on such a venture, and the bureau's own rigid tradition of nonpartisan service would likely incite a revolt were it ordered to.

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.

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

He hoped to achieve this by blowing up the House of Lords with gunpowder and inciting a popular revolt to install James's daughter Princess Elizabeth as titular Queen.

By inciting a violent revolt amongst the Métis, the government can justify funding the railway to move troops to the Prairies.

Instead, in 1604 he decided to join with Catesby, who planned to restore England to Catholicism by killing the king, and inciting a popular revolt in the Midlands, during which James's daughter, Princess Elizabeth, would be installed as titular queen.

He therefore planned to kill James by blowing up the House of Lords with gunpowder, and then inciting a popular revolt during which a Catholic monarch would be restored to the throne.

He therefore planned to kill James by blowing up the House of Lords with gunpowder, and inciting a popular revolt during which a Catholic monarch would be restored to the throne.