Sentence examples for significant rebellion from inspiring English sources

But one City source said he did not expect a significant rebellion over pay because the company had been so successful recently.

A total of 22.6 per cent of all Sky investors opposed the pay for chief executive Jeremy Darroch and chief financial officer Andrew Griffith – a significant rebellion by City standards.

It would need a significant rebellion by disaffected Tories joining force with all the opposition MPs to force him to call another election... Labour MPs are already alarmed by what they see as an attempt to change long-standing Commons rules in the new government's favour.

Under the guise of a teen rom-com dressed in the styles of a period dance flick, Dirty Dancing surreptitiously delivered a subversive counter-narrative to many of the things I was hearing as an adolescent girl poised on the precipice of years the adults around me fervently (and vocally) hoped would not be marked by significant rebellion or any of the foolishness associated with raging hormones.

There is a good chance of a significant rebellion against the planned high-speed rail line (HS2) from Conservative backbenchers, when the Commons returns on April 28th.

Opponents of the plan - announced in the recent Budget - mounted a significant rebellion when it was first debated and voted on last month.

There were also significant rebellions against the re-election of Sports Direct's non-executive directors and the remuneration of Grant Thornton as auditors.

A significant Labour rebellion in the last parliamentary vote on Trident, in March 2007, meant the Blair government had to rely on the votes of Tory MPs.

KIEV, Ukraine, Nov. 28 - The most striking, and the most potentially significant, public rebellion against President Leonid D. Kuchma and his chosen successor in last Sunday's contested election began silently.

The Government is braced for a significant backbench rebellion of 50 to 100 Labour MPs who will be asked to vote on a motion supporting Blair's decision to try to find a route through the United Nations to disarm Saddam.

"Deploying military force is counterproductive, especially in a place like Irian Jaya, which has no significant armed rebellion," said Kusnato Anggoro, a political analyst for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, an independent research institute.