Sentence examples for violent revolt from inspiring English sources

Short of reaching those goals, he hints at the possibility of violent revolt.

When his mother dies of an overdose of the brave new world's feel-good drug, John swells a violent revolt.

"'Avatar' tells the story of a violent revolt against illegal house demolitions," wrote one commentator on the popular forum Tianya.

Indeed, the risk of violent revolt is increasing, and Mr. dos Santos will go down in history as just another dictator who was blinded by power and greed.

At the time, overseas Chinese were urging mainlanders to rise up in protest — not in violent revolt, but simply by walking slowly in city squares.

Grossman told Israeli readers that the occupation, far from stable, was breeding permanent hatreds and creating the conditions for a violent revolt.

Whereas British rule in India had long been marked by violent revolts and brutal suppressions, the British Army was able to march out of the country with barely a shot fired and only seven casualties.

More violent revolts in Libya and Syria were meanwhile taking on an increasingly Islamist cast, with Brotherhood-linked networks, backed by rich friends in the Gulf, initially prominent in fighting, funding and political mobilisation.

The second half prophesies an outbreak of violent revolts in a country where the elite have long comforted themselves with the thought that the poor will stoically accept their lot.

The Mixtecs and Zapotecs received the Spanish very positively, but after a series of battles and violent revolts, they ended up subjugated.

Even islands such as Lanzarote or Gomera, which pacifically received the first Norman and Castilian expeditions, were the scene of violent revolts because the natives were enslaved in large numbers to defray the cost of the military expeditions.