Sentence examples for staged a revolt from inspiring English sources

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.

A few months later one of Bolívar's most-honoured generals, José María Córdoba, staged a revolt.

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

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

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

Why did Labour's backbenchers stage a revolt?

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

In her view, the prosecutor had stirred up hatred and invited the Sudanese people to stage a revolt against their head of state.

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.

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.