Sentence examples for stage a revolt from inspiring English sources

Witnesses say he delivered the orders and watched as guards gunned down prisoners who had attempted to stage a revolt.

This, plus rumours that Zelaya planned to invite Japan to construct a canal that would have competed with the U.S. waterway, caused the United States to encourage Zelaya's Conservative opposition to stage a revolt.

While Stice spends a few days in the States, the students at Kalu Yala stage a revolt.

The departing governor, Nur Misuari, staged a revolt a week ago on Jolo, the base of his support, then fled to Malaysia, where he was captured on Saturday.

The first year, though, the non-specialists staged a revolt.

They staged a revolt, claiming the food was unsatisfactory and their living quarters were infested.

A1 A P.O.W. REVOLT -- Surrendered Taliban troops staged a revolt at a prison where hundreds of them were being held under the control of the Northern Alliance.

After failing to annex Crete (Modern Greek: Kríti) in 1841, an attempt that alienated Great Britain, the Greeks staged a revolt in 1843.

In 1979 the MPRP staged a revolt in Tabrīz that Khomeini's supporters savagely put down, and soon afterward Khomeini ordered the MPRP disbanded.

In 1768, they staged a revolt, ran him out of town and had a street named after them for their trouble: Frenchmen Street.

But I'd like to think that Sam Coppola, who plays Manny, the plot device, er, psychiatrist, in Alan Hruska's "New House Under Construction," was actually staging a revolt.