Sentence examples for of this insurrection from inspiring English sources

When news of this insurrection finally reached al-Maʾmūn, he abruptly decided to leave Merv for Baghdad.

Artistic events in the wake of this insurrection were surprisingly plentiful: several theatres started up with patriotic plays; operas appeared soon after; Verdi's publisher Ricordi advertised a long series of patriotic hymns, including one by Rossini.

And while leaders of some rebellions cultivate an air of menacing mystery, the leader of this insurrection, George Speight, a brawny man with a shaved head who recently moved from Australia and had been under investigation here for his role in an insurance swindle, takes the opposite tack.

When we were finally taken to Dara'a, the southern city that had been the cradle of this insurrection, we travelled in the presence of four government minders and, when we attempted to talk to anyone, we found ourselves surrounded by Mukhabarat who instructed our interviewees to tell us everything was normal.

Such accounts misunderstand the breadth of this insurrection, the character of modern conservatism, and the history that got us here.

Emancipation, he believed, was the immediate step that needed to be taken to crush this "insurrection of the slave-drivers," but he was to be disappointed time and again by the administration's dawdling movement in that direction.

This insurrection of workers and enlightened bourgeois against the aristocracy was fomented by an alliance of socialists, liberals, and Romantic intellectuals (Lamartine was one of its leaders), and, without much bloodshed, it toppled the corrupt regime of King Louis Philippe, instituting the Second Republic — a period of giddy political reform and debate on the Social Contract.

The beauty of the insurrection, its dignity--this human chain, for example, spontaneously organized to protect the Cairo Museum after looters had broken in.

It was also during this operation when the first shot of the insurrection was fired.

This depends on those who, after the end of the insurrection, will uphold the possibility of changing the rules of what counts as political.

This overwhelming display of force intimidated the leaders of the insurrection, ending the rebellion virtually without bloodshed.