Sentence examples for national revolt from inspiring English sources

Bessus was now in Bactria raising a national revolt in the eastern satrapies with the usurped title of Great King.

Then it began violently repressing them, in such a shocking way that it sparked a national revolt.

By the end of the year, the movement had assumed the dimensions of a national revolt, the mainstay of which was the Arab peasantry.

This week, following a national revolt by head teachers and people in the sports world, the government is expected to concede defeat, at least in part.

In what has since been described as the first national revolt against neoliberal capitalism, this cacophony of kitchenware succeeded in forcing out four presidents in three weeks.

But, she added, each protest had a different, "case by case" dynamic and did not represent a national revolt against the African National Congress.

He severely repressed a number of liberal and national revolts (including that of the Bandiera brothers in 1844).

He watched his cousin spray-paint the wall of a school in the city of Dara'a with a short, impish challenge to President Bashar al-Assad, a trained ophthalmologist, about the spreading national revolts.

The 8 March Revolution has often been viewed as a mere military coup, but it had many of the ingredients of national revolts from below.

But any shopper can now see evidence of a European Union on the verge of cracking amid non-stop inter-European bickering that includes national revolts against the euro, discontent over NATO's role as a global Robocop, and a style of ongoing European cultural arrogance that makes it incapable of recognizing, to take one example, why the Chinese model is so successful in Africa.

There is nothing left for the people of Kandahar except to revolt, to have a national uprising and change the system".