Sentence examples for instigated a revolt from inspiring English sources

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

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).

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

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.

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

Or your child is president of the student body and has instigated a massive revolt among the students.

Now it could instigate a big revolt of backbenchers.

Then Comcast would need to transfer its network assets, plus a $6 billion cash payment, to the separate NBC, all without instigating an investor revolt.

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

The A.B.A. instigated a salary war.