Sentence examples for state of insurrection from inspiring English sources

The track is in a "state of insurrection," the Governor declared.

The future for Iraq itself looks less assured, despite the growing inflow of oil money.Sunni parts of the country are currently in a state of insurrection, and the now prosperous and peaceful, if politically authoritarian, Kurdish north looks closer than ever to seceding.

A little over an hour after the committee's meeting, Governor Taylor declared a state of insurrection and called out the state militia.

Taylor claimed a state of insurrection existed in the capital, but defiant Democrats refused to heed the call to adjourn or to convene in London.

China reacted by summoning a US envoy over the matter and threatening sanctions on some of the American companies involved, saying Beijing "resolutely opposes" any arms sale to the island they consider an integral piece of Chinese territory — albeit one in a state of insurrection for more than 60 years.

Now, most people from Detroit have fond memories of George Romney for one reason or another (unless you lived in the city in 1967 when Romney declared a state of insurrection so he could send tanks downtown to quell the public disturbances).

"Today we are declaring the state of peaceful insurrection of the Puerto Rican people," said a Methodist bishop, Juan Vera, one of the organizers, as he stood before the afternoon rally.

Clark indicated that to do so, Romney would have to declare a state of civil insurrection, which the governor was loath to do from fear that insurance companies would seize upon it as a reason to not cover losses owing to the riot.

The Union cause is sequestered in textbooks; the cause of insurrection, of states' rights, of the unalloyed brutality of human enslavement — that cause still towers in the region where the war was fought.

Three big cities on the Suez Canal, Egypt's prime strategic asset, are in a state of defiant, if largely peaceful, insurrection.

The natural state of all writing instruments is quiet insurrection.