Sentence examples for its revolt from inspiring English sources

It acted independently of Obwalden in its revolt against the Helvetic Republic in 1798 and in its refusal to accept the federal constitution of 1815.

Yes, this is the N.B.A.'s reaction to the Heat's loading up with James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh and the owners' antipathy to the Lakers' various dynasties, but it has now gone to absurd measures in its revolt against superteams, which happens to be the entire operating principle of Major League Baseball.

It was not only the speed and success of its revolt that convinced many Egyptians that their regime might prove equally flimsy.

At the Arab League, Mr. Moussa sat out the churning domestic politics of Egypt's last decade, when the foundations of its revolt were laid, as labor actions galvanized workers, protesters unsettled the government and new political groups emerged.

Snacking on sunflower seeds, he flicks from Roj TV, a Denmark-based satellite station that backs his Kurdistan Workers Partyy (PKK) in its revolt against the Turkish state, to the mainstream channels beamed from Istanbul.

The great historian Gordon Wood has pointed out that America went through "an epistemological crisis" in the aftermath of its revolt against the British.

The great theme of the election was its populist revolt; its governing mystery was which élite the voters were revolting against.

In a region transfixed by the drama of its revolts, Mr. Awlaki's voice has had almost no resonance.

Despite the popular belief that dodo meat was inedible because of its revolting taste, dodos were eaten by these early settlers, and even considered to be a delicacy by some.

After it revolted against its Mongol rulers (1365), Samarkand became the capital of the empire of Timur (Tamerlane), who made the city the most important economic and cultural centre in Central Asia.

BSkyB suffered its biggest revolt on pay in years as 37 per cent of independent shareholders who voted were against the remuneration report.