Sentence examples for standard of revolt from inspiring English sources

It was at this point that the lawyers picked up the standard of revolt and challenged the authority of Musharraf in the face of brutal repression.

In 1232 he submitted to his father, but in 1233 he issued a manifesto to the princes, and in 1234 raised the standard of revolt at Boppard.

On July 5, 1922, a number of the young officers raised the standard of revolt at the Igrejinha fortress in Copacabana.

The Liberal Democrat leadership went into overdrive to quash claims that the social democrat Keynesians in the cabinet – Vince Cable and Chris Huhne – had mounted the standard of revolt and called for a shift away from existing deficit reduction plans.

The subservience of Khālid to his Egyptian and Ottoman masters was increasingly resented by his Wahhābī subjects, and in 1841 his cousin, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Thunayān, raised the standard of revolt.

Cuba raised the banner of revolt, and paid the price.

Gillibrand is conservative by New York Democratic standards, and there were rumblings of revolt in the party's extremely large liberal wing.

"There is a sense of revolt.

New technologies have lubricated the mechanisms of revolt.

But there are few signs of revolt about this.

So far, there has not been much risk of revolt.