Sentence examples for much rebellion from inspiring English sources

The daughter of left-wingers ('so not much rebellion there') and a veteran of anti-Vietnam campaigning, Ruth doesn't actually believe that life is a competition.

Today we are surrounded by so much lifestyle rebellion that it is difficult to see where attitude finishes and gentrification begins.

Some sociologists have observed that youth culture of the 1960s wasn't so much a rebellion against our parents' values as it was a cry out for society to literally and completely follow values of democracy and egalitarianism, ones that the World War II generation fought for in battle and after the Great Depression.

They adored forbidden deities and practised forbidden deeds, inspired as much by rebellion against Society as by their own passions".

A story about transhumanism and uploaded human consciousness isn't so much a rebellion as it is compliance to what's already been put out there.

But so obstructed were the halls that you couldn't organize a betting pool, much less a rebellion, and so what you did was seethe.

Opposition to him in his own party is so strong and bitter over Iraq that he would now face a much bigger parliamentary rebellion if he were to propose supporting virtually any further American military action.

Much of the rebellion against the EU is from the left-behinds, the victims of globalisation, sticking two fingers up against the establishment, muddled though their reasons may be.

Our spiritual situation may be very different indeed … For us, as could never have been the case in late antiquity, even distinctly gnostic spiritual tendencies are likely to prove to be not so much stirrings of rebellion against materialist orthodoxies as convulsions of dying resistance.

Much of the rebellion of the Pakistani Taliban was fueled by anger at the corruption of tribal leaders who pocketed government money intended for economic development, said a retired army officer, Murad Khan Mehsud, from the village of Nano, not far from Makeen.

We should offer Iranians a deal that accedes to their desire for civilian nuclear power and thus affirms their scientific prowess — remember that Iran's 1979 revolution was as much a nationalist rebellion against a regime installed by the West as a religious revolution, so having a nuclear program has broad nationalist appeal there — while insisting on a foolproof inspection regime.