Sentence examples for started an uprising from inspiring English sources

Every time Mazzini's revolutionaries started an uprising, they were rounded up and executed, more often than not by the Piedmontese authorities.

The Revive Han Association started an uprising at Huizhou, in Guangdong, in October 1900, which failed after two weeks' fighting with imperial forces.

The town, which has for decades been a hotspot of Shia opposition, has since been in a virtual state of lockdown, and now seems to have started an uprising – the "intifada of dignity", as activists have called it.

American officials on Monday stepped up their confrontation with Moktada al-Sadr, the militant Shiite cleric whose followers started an uprising in at least six Iraqi cities over the weekend, confirming that they had issued an arrest warrant for him but declining to say when they would execute it.

One year later, in 1467, the locals of Transylvania started an uprising in which Corvinus had a difficult time quelling the riots.

With motivation, means, and perceived opportunity in place, only a precipitant was required to start an uprising.

The would-be guerrillas were taken to Malta to be trained by (inevitably) an "eccentric Oxford don," then dropped off near the Albanian coast to start an uprising.

When he returned to Saxony in August, he faced new demands for starting an uprising in Poland in view of favourable indications there.

He will go down in history for starting an uprising of Americans – prompting us to stand up and saying enough is enough.

In response, he fled his capital to start an uprising.

That same day exiled Croatian politician Ante Pavelić called for Croats to start an uprising against the government over his Radio Velebit program based in Italy.