They were fearful that, in the highly charged atmosphere of Passover, he might trigger an uprising that would bring the full force of Roman imperial power down on the heads of the hapless Jews.
"As the food situation worsened in the North," Good Friends said, "there is talk there that if the government did not come out with drastic measures to improve the situation by the end of February, it could trigger an uprising".
A young man's suicide triggers an uprising that inspires other uprisings, but the incident was a spark; the bonfire it lit was laid by activist networks and ideas about civil disobedience, and by the deep desire for justice and freedom that exists everywhere.
The story begins with an abduction of an Armenian girl by a band of thugs sent by the Persian sardar that triggers an uprising led by Agassi.
Because resentment is rising in so many segments, authorities cannot "crack down" (as can North Korea and Cuba) without triggering a general uprising.
This struggle in Iran is symbolized by one man, whose name you should know: Hashem Aghajari, a former Islamic revolutionary and now a college professor, who was arrested Nov. 6 and sentenced to death by the Iranian hard-liners -- triggering a student uprising -- after giving a speech on the need to rejuvenate Islam with an "Islamic Protestantism".
On February 5th, armed rebels, including some notorious miscreants, seized the city, triggering a wider uprising against the deeply unpopular president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.The rebels staged a surprise assault on the main police station, forcing the heavily-armed officers to flee and torching the building.
It is a lose-lose situation because the continuous erosion of the nation's territorial integrity could trigger a popular uprising, and even a revolt within the army that had fought a bloody border war against China in 1979 and has grown increasingly frustrated with the party leadership's subservience to Vietnam's historic enemy to the north.
This triggered a general uprising of Yunnan Muslims, which lasted until 1873.
Baldetti, a former beauty queen, was forced to resign in 2015 after a separate Cicig-backed corruption investigation triggered a social uprising and brought down the government of President Otto Pérez Molina, who remains in Mariscal jail awaiting trial.
