Sentence examples for launch a rebellion from inspiring English sources

Machar then fled to the bush to launch a rebellion, insisting that the president had attempted to carry out a bloody purge of his rivals.

He returned in 1989 to launch a rebellion which installed him as president in 1996 at the cost of 200,000 lives.

Mr. Collier said that his study did not make a distinction between bandits who launch a rebellion solely for financial gain and self-described freedom fighters who decide to challenge the government because they have been persecuted unjustly.

"The MGB and LNR police don't want to launch a rebellion," the source continued.

"It is their responsibility that they should launch a rebellion against these generals," he said.

If Æthelric was related to the Godwin's, King William I of England may have feared that the bishop would use his diocese to launch a rebellion.

Another ex-comrade, Aït Ahmed, launched a rebellion in September 1963.

João Fernandes Vieira, a wealthy plantation owner, subsequently launched a rebellion that steadily gained ground against John Maurice's incompetent successors.

Armed groups from the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa tribes launched a rebellion in Darfur in 2003, protesting at their marginalisation.

In response, locals launched a rebellion in the 1980s against the mine, BCL, and the PNG and Australian governments.

The civil war began on July 17th, when General Francisco Franco launched a rebellion from Spanish Morocco that quickly cut Spain in half.