Sentence examples for potential rebellion from inspiring English sources

Of much more significance is the potential rebellion by investors against Murdoch's leadership of News Corp.

George Osborne is facing a potential rebellion over the "tampon tax" next week, from an alliance of feminists and campaigners for Britain to leave the European Union.

Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, still faces a potential rebellion from members of her centre-right coalition when the Bundestag votes on the issue on September 29th.

The chancellor had faced a potential rebellion over the issue, after an amendment tabled by the Labour MP for Dewsbury and Mirfield, Paula Sherriff, won the backing of Eurosceptics keen to assert Britain's power to set its own tax rates.

Early in our history, when faced with a potential rebellion of unpaid officers, one of our leaders employed an uncharacteristic emotional trick -- pretending to be going blind -- to appeal to the infuriated military men not to march on the capital.

Long's acquittal takes the pressure off police chiefs who would have faced a potential rebellion from armed officers if he had become the first police marksman to be convicted of murdering a suspect.

Will future defense secretaries have to worry about potential rebellions by their brass, and will they start to choose commanders according to calculations of political loyalty?

He described the American Revolution as a clever device to defeat "potential rebellions and create a consensus of popular support for the rule of a new, privileged leadership".

The boards of other firms such including AstraZeneca and Reckitt Benckiser, where the pay of the chief executive, Rakesh Kapoor, almost doubled to £23m last year, could face potential rebellions over pay at their AGMs.

Faced with a potential backbench rebellion, Prime Minister David Cameron returned early from the Lord Mayor's Banquet dressed in a white tie, while other Tories were urgently called back to Parliament to take part in the vote.

Although King George I had issued a royal edict against speaking about political informers in regards to potential Jacobite rebellion, Swift felt that the issue was necessary to not only defend himself, but to defend all politically-oppressed people.