Sentence examples for staging a revolt from inspiring English sources

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.

My back and knees were younger then, but I'm only 31 and feel pretty confident that if I were doing those jobs again I'd still wake up with soreness like a person who'd worked out too much, not the soreness of a person whose body was staging a revolt.

In this age of tea parties and Sean Hannity, however, citizens have become adept at spotting surreptitious forms of taxation, and, in Republican districts upstate, clerks like Frank Merola, of Rensselaer County, are staging a revolt, collecting thousands of signatures in opposition to the move, and starting Web sites like Nonewplates.com and Stopnewplates.com.

Hundreds of Democrats in Congress are staging a revolt, offering no support for the President's "fast-track" bill.

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.

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

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.