Sentence examples for instigate a revolt from inspiring English sources

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Abū Muslim was instructed by the imam and then sent to Khorāsān (745 46) to instigate a revolt.

20 July 1936: Nationalists, led by rogue generals, instigate a revolt in the Spanish zone of Morocco and in the Canary Islands.

Marchesi feared that the United States, which had made an offer to purchase what were then the Danish Virgin Islands, would rather instigate a revolt in Puerto Rico so as to later annex the island which would make a better military base in the Caribbean at a lesser economic cost.

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By performing this last act Elisha instigated a revolt in Syria; Hazael murdered the sick and dying Ben-hadad.

The royalists, hoping that they would soon be able to restore the monarchy, instigated a revolt in Paris to prevent these measures from being put into effect.

Even now he is loathed by Turkish patriots because in 1916 he instigated a revolt that cost them their Arab possessions and boxed them into Asia Minor.

Now some programmers feel used and are instigating a revolt.

Caracalla's maternal aunt, Julia Maesa, successfully instigated a revolt among the Third Legion to have her eldest grandson (and Caracalla's cousin), Elagabalus, declared emperor in his place.

Nevertheless, persuaded by doctors, monks and soothsayers that he would live and become Byzantine emperor, he instigated a revolt in Cappadocia against his adversary Aetios, who had by then secured the post of strategos of the Anatolic Theme (the highest-ranked military position in the Byzantine Empire).

Now it could instigate a big revolt of backbenchers.

Roberts and the new championship points leader, Virginio Ferrari, instigated a riders' revolt and refused to race.

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