Sentence examples for something of a revolt from inspiring English sources

This was something of a revolt.

"I think we may be witnessing something of a revolt against the establishment in both parties".

Mr Cameron said of it: "The whole approach of building a bigger, stronger, more active society involves something of a revolt against the top-down, statist approach".

There now appears to be something of a revolt going on amongst some organisers, who are vociferously protesting about the changes.

"But that's because the whole approach of building a bigger, stronger, more active society involves something of a revolt against the top down, statist approach of recent years.

There was something of a revolt when Aurum was introduced in 2011 as a currency only usable for cosmetic purchases - avatar flair, in effect - with the by-now-legendary $80 monocle providing a rallying point for dissent.

He's not Donald Trump, but he is perhaps the beneficiary of something similar; a revolt against ordained wisdom, in that everybody says it's obvious Trump cannot be the Republican nominee but increasingly you wonder what it takes to stop him.

The draft protest had turned into something else — a revolt against authority and, eventually, a race riot.

Christopher Wright (1568 1605), John's brother, had also taken part in the Earl of Essex's revolt and had moved his family to Twigmore in Lincolnshire, then known as something of a haven for priests.

Indeed, while Mr. Mangano was a beneficiary of an anti-incumbent taxpayer revolt, he was something of an insider, with 14 years in the county legislature and friendly relations with union leaders.

To persuade them otherwise would require real arrests and purges within the Kremlin's inner circle, something Mr Putin has so far resisted for fear of provoking a revolt.