Sentence examples for rebellions from inspiring English sources

A veteran of the rebellions against the 1992 Maastricht treaty that put modern Tory hostility to Brussels on the political map, he was battling the EU when Nigel Farage was an unknown twentysomething working for a French bank.

Kepel insists that the present tensions in France cannot be separated from the so-called "Arab spring" – the wave of rebellions that spread across the Muslim world in 2011.

Although the government has an overall majority of 12 seats in the Commons, Cameron is massively outnumbered in the House of Lords, and his whips will have to be alert to any signs of rebellions by backbench MPs, possibly made restive by the prime minister's promotion of an insufficiently ambitious EU renegotiation agenda.

It was as though he was rehearsing for major rebellions.

Rebellions against the party leadership used to be reinforced by MPs who had been intimidated into voting against the whip.

Some of the posts made by Contribsx, which was created in the summer of 2013, illuminate Conservative divisions, focusing notably on one of the biggest rebellions in the last parliament over the issue of gay marriage – a policy that remains controversial, with traditionalists targeting liberal Tories in this election.

She blames this for the separation of South Sudan in 2011 and the ongoing rebellions in the Nuba Mountains and Darfur.

Although the Conservative-Liberal Democrat government secured a 20-strong majority to get the tuition fees bill passed, both parties – particularly the latter – faced internal rebellions.

In John Ford's 1957 movie The Rising of the Moon, an English tourist, seeing injured players carried by on stretchers, asks nervously: "Charles, is it another of their rebellions?" The question was not entirely stupid, for the GAA undoubtedly was part of a cultural rebellion that could not be cleanly separated from a military one.

In April a fiery meeting of Conservative backbenchers heard comparisons drawn between Lords reform and the rebellions over Europe that dogged John Major's government, and threats from junior ministerial aides to resign over the issue.

The 2010-15 parliament saw more backbench rebellions than any since the second world war.