How To Use Revolt In A Sentence

For a time, the revolt chilled the atmosphere in which they had to operate and stimulated a vigorous debate within their fracturing movement about the appropriate means to effect the desired end of emancipation.
She wears a thick flowery hairband, several clashing necklaces and a quite revolting hairy purple cardigan with batwing sleeves.
Isn't there something revolting about catering to the imagined needs of a tiny group of spoiled ladies, a Marie Antoinette–ish situation that reached its apotheosis when John Galliano showed his infamous clochard collection—the word means bum or hobo in French, and the tattered gowns, hand-stenciled to look filthy, trailed pots, pans, and other refuse—at the 1997 Dior haute couture show? Art in the Parks 3: Nan Kempner's Clothing
Judges were in open revolt after being forced to free more dangerous criminals because of the cells shortage. The Sun
Sheols of houris in chems upon divans, (revolted stellas vespertine vesamong them) at a bare (O!) mention of the scaly rybald exclaimed: Poisse! Finnegans Wake

More alarming -- not to mention revolting -- than any revelation, which has come out thus far about Bachmann, Kennedy once commented to Democratic political adviser Bobby Baker, "You know, I get a migraine headache if I don't get a strange piece of ass every day" see endnote 54. Lara M. Brown, Ph.D.: Michele Bachmann and Migraines: Presidential Disqualifier or Sexism?
The fans are also in open revolt. The Sun
This bespeaks a progressive, enlightened court, hardly stifling and revolt-inducing.
Five steps up the dirt path, my trachea crumpled, my vertebrae fused, and the small muscles in my back revolted and spasmed.
From time to time I forsook my own thoughts to follow him, and I followed in amaze, mastered for the moment by his remarkable intellect, under the spell of his passion, for he was preaching the passion of revolt. Chapter 26
He was the prime mover in the revolt against the government.
‘uprest’ (“Revolt of Islam”, 3 21 5), which has been described as a nonce-word deliberately coined by Shelley ‘on no better warrant than the exigency of the rhyme.’ The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
It mostly sucked because right as I rolled out of bed my stomach revolted and well I yakked everywhere … then the hangover came after the nausea. Think Progress » Beck loses 103 sponsors as his UK television broadcast runs for five days straight without any ads.
Attempts to negotiate peace ended in armed revolt.
One day there came a note from the editor requiring me to write ten pages on this revolting text: "Considerations concerning the alleged subterranean holophotal extemporaneousness of the conchyliaceous superimbrication of the Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects. Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
I was revolted by his dirty habit of spitting.
Indeed, this is one retelling of the classic children's story that feels inert, unappetizing, and downright revolting.
But he could face a revolt if his party win the next General Election. The Sun
When another of Aegon's Great Bastards tried to seize the Iron Throne from his trueborn half-brother, Bittersteel joined the revolt.
Poor old Sofia has been down to her local carpet warehouse and snapped up a few offcuts of a revolting cerise floor covering.
"He is the most revolting human being I have ever met," Butler said.
Record sales are down for a variety of reasons, and consumers are in open revolt.
He was almost physically pained by rigid doctrinal systems, and mildly revolted by the idea of discipleship.
Qassam himself was "martyred" by British troops in 1935, at the start of the Palestine Revolt, and then largely forgotten until his memory was revived by Hamas. Which Way for Hamas?
Ionian exiles and the Lesbians with the expedition began to urge him, since this seemed too dangerous, to seize one of the Ionian cities or the Aeolic town of Cyme, to use as a base for effecting the revolt of Ionia. The History of the Peloponnesian War
The government has also issued a statement calling on the public to " revolt against the striking trade unions".
It revolts me to know that the world spends so much money on arms when millions are dying of hunger.
The people broke out/rose in revolt.
But when she is exiled to the cabin of her prospective husband, her senses as well as her principles revolt.
He writhed at the memory, revolted with himself for that temporary weakness.
Inarus, the author of the revolt, was betrayed, and perished on the cross, and the whole of Egypt once more succumbed to the Persian yoke, save only that portion called the marshy or fenny parts (under the dominion of a prince named Amyrtaeus), protected by the nature of the soil and the proverbial valour of the inhabitants. Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
She could recall the total disgust that she had felt towards such a cowardly weakling who would cry before his peers; it was revolting.
Houghton's plays dealt with revolt against parental authority and generational conflict.
By December 1139, Unur was in open revolt against Zengi's authority, and Zengi laid siege to the city, without success.
When these minorities pass from disobedience to rebellion, the elites lack the resources to quell revolts.
Because of the inhumane nature of slavery, slave revolts became commonplace in Jamaica.
Now I'm all for anything that celebrates blatant carnivorism, and I'd love to see PETA's apoplectic reaction, but come on: I've been inside a Burger King and while the amalgam of scent that assaults your nose may not be quite as revolting as the aforementioned love sweat of the Mongolian Cud-Spitting Yak, it certainly doesn't conjure up images of sweet lovin 'on a plush rug in front of a roaring fire. Scent of Love
After the Great Revolt of 1857-8 against the Company, the British Crown actually created its own khilat, the Star of India investiture.
The real demonstrators were as revolted as anyone by the senseless violence. The Sun
(Not a little has been written about 'uprest' ( "Revolt of Islam", 3 21 5), which has been described as a nonce-word deliberately coined by Shelley 'on no better warrant than the exigency of the rhyme.' The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete
The Major government, achieving the only things that matter – stable prices, rising employment and bouyant inward investment – would have been recognised as a success but for the running internal revolt that she busily inflamed. Letters: Bringer of division and bitterness
If we don’t want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we’re stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions. Ellen Degeneres
Their stance was reinforced by a royal edict of 1782 which apparently brought an end to the so-called ‘revolt of the curés’.
Sin has much more weakened man's will than darkened his intellect, and the rebellion of the sensual appetite, which we call concupiscence, does indeed disturb the understanding, but still it is against the will that it principally stirs up sedition and revolt: so that the poor will, already quite infirm, being shaken with the continual assaults which concupiscence directs against it, cannot make so great progress in divine love as reason and natural inclination suggest to it that it should do. Treatise on the Love of God
Not so long ago she was pulled up by the Old Bill for a truly revolting placard. The Sun
Even Goneril has her one splendid hour, her fire - flaught of hellish glory; when she treads under foot the half-hearted goodness, the wordy and windy though sincere abhorrence, which is all that the mild and impotent revolt of Albany can bring to bear against her imperious and dauntless devilhood; when she flaunts before the eyes of her "milk-livered" and "moral fool" the coming banners of France about the "plumed helm" of his slayer. A Study of Shakespeare
Like impressionism, art nouveau was an International revolt against the traditional academic art style.
In the East the progressive revolt had a more decidedly urban complexion.
Both groups then joined together in a revolt against Dutch rule.
A revolt against a ruling liberal political class which has caused untold havoc at home and mayhem and murder abroad. The Sun
Her revolting little son looks untroubled by the situation. Times, Sunday Times
My soul revolted against the idea.
It is kind of funny in a revolting way.
There are reasons to defend a poor people, to revolt against an evil government, seize dominions, disagreements, holding land, invasion, self-defense, and so on and so forth.
And as long as the rebellion is active, it will have to be checked, just as the Kikuyu revolt in Kenya had to be checked. The Algerian Issue
The pope at Rome (Gregory II) likewise declared against the emperor's iconoclasm, and the population of the exarchate of Ravenna rose in revolt and made an alliance with the Lombards. 692
Aspects of the revolt gave further illustration of the unreliable loyalty of sections of the armed forces.
The most revolting thing I find about television is the commercials.
And passing HCR may rob just a little thunder from the continued call to revolt from the right. Think Progress » Ed Schultz Tells Robert Gibbs He’s ‘Full Of Sh*t’ And ‘You’re Losing Your Base’
That is unspeakable and one of the many revolting facts as to why prostitution should be abolished and not legalised.
Now, Lackaday in his manuscript relates this English episode, not so much as an appeal to pity for the straits to which he was reduced, although he winces at its precarious mountebankery, and his sensitive and respectable soul revolts at going round with the mendicant's hat and thanking old women and children for pennies, as in order to correlate certain influences and coincidences in his career. The Mountebank
Hoyle's rebellions were revolts of the commons, taken over and defused by the gentry and nobility.
But in a move that is being hailed as a model of civil disobedience, the whole village revolted. Times, Sunday Times
If you look to Kennedy’s 1963 civil rights speech, you’ll note that the civil rights act was very much a bismarckian reform in that it as much a response to fear of violent revolt for equal rights as it was a benevolent act to improve the status of a minority group. The Volokh Conspiracy » Public Opinion, Anti-Discrimination Law, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964
If we don’t want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we’re stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions. Ellen Degeneres
There's a little technology revolt taking place in Britain, where a designer has created what he calls a vintage mobile phone. CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2004
We are reminded, for example, that belief in the resurrection of the dead is not an essential feature of the Jewish Bible but a view that developed primarily in response to the martyrdoms of the Maccabean revolt.
This is seen as a reward for the army's loyalty during a barracks revolt earlier this month.
Saturday morning strollers were greeted with a revolting scene as they walked along Webster's Lock in Graiguecullen.
Rashid, whose own Islam is a civil and humane affair, is revolted by these tribal sectaries.
But the man who led the revolt is a thoroughly nasty piece of work.
Their morbidity, especially on a day so full of possibilities, revolted him. THE GREAT AND SECRET SHOW
All who saw the distressing scene revolted against it.
Then you become hugely desirable, in a revolting sort of way.
In the reaction against the monotony of formalism and of that deadly conventionalism which is the peril of every accepted method in religion, art, education, or politics, men are ready to welcome any revolt, however extravagant. Essays on Work and Culture
Swift was as disgusted by the moral disease of human gluttony as he was by its lazy and revolting cures, so much so that he became obsessed with scatological matters and eventually went mad.
While the Egyptian natives revolted in the Delta (201200), Antiochus III attacked him in the Fifth Syrian War. G. Ptolemaic Egypt to the Roman Conquest
Auckland trammies revolted against the disciplinary regime of companies that tried to enforce strict regulations on the job.
When the ‘great fear’ erupted in many parts of France in 1789, the peasants who revolted made no distinction between noble and commoner lords.
The cabinet and the party were close to open revolt. Times, Sunday Times
Not that it was a particularly memorable movie in my opinion, but one character stood out and left a lasting impression: the skinny geek with the moon tan who posed for a photograph in his revolting scungy old undies.
Entities zoom around in simulated three-dimensional space, colliding with each other, shooting each other down, swallowing each other amid revolting noises.
Peele's "Arraignment of Paris, a Pastorall" is a court drama in the style of Lilly, intended to flatter the Queen, "poor in action but all the richer in gallant phrases, provided with songs, one in Italian, and with all kinds of love scenes between shepherds and shepherdesses, nymphs and terrestrial gods"; the diction is interesting, because it shows revolt from the prevailing "euphuism," and therefore Peele must be given the praise of first opposing Lilly's affected style. The Critics Versus Shakspere A Brief for the Defendant
Many of Imelda's shoes are now in a museum, including the pair of simple canvas espadrilles she was wearing at the time she had to literally run from the palace to escape the revolt.
The rebels dispersed and by the end of June the revolt had been repressed with ferocity everywhere.
When America's Founders revolted against "taxation without representation," this is precisely the kind of kingly diktat they had in mind. Reckless 'Endangerment'
He is not otherwise uncouth, so how can I cure him of this revolting habit? Times, Sunday Times
The whips who failed miserably to dragoon the rebels through the ‘No’ lobby on Wednesday wearily admit that a mass revolt by more than a third of backbenchers cannot be passed off as a mere blip.
A revolt against a ruling liberal political class which has caused untold havoc at home and mayhem and murder abroad. The Sun
Hardly had a century and a half elapsed before the sturdy colonists, who did not claim freedom but determined to keep it, formally revolted and fought their way to absolute independence -- not, by the by, a feat whereof to be overproud when a whole country rose unanimously against a handful of troops. Arabian nights. English
It was undeniably a revolt by ordinary people against their leaders.
Also, the party is in revolt about my policy on Syria. Times, Sunday Times
Not only the children of Israel, that had revolted from the temple, but the children of Judah too, that still adhered to it -- not only the common people, the men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, but those that should have reproved and restrained sin in others were themselves ringleaders in it, their kings and princes, their priests and prophets. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
The partial acknowledgment of the injustice and unworkability of the austerity measures came only after popular resistance and the peaceful revolt of the indignant scored its first major victory for the anti-austerity and pro-democracy campaign. Greece is standing up to EU neocolonialism | Costas Douzinas and Petros Papaconstantinou
She was revolted by bags of pre-prepared potatoes, smothered in gloopy preservative and packed in plastic.
It is time to revolt against the corporate fascist descendancy of the Constitutional Government. OpEdNews - Diary: SENATOR HARRY REID: TIME TO WEAR THE MANTLE OF OFFICE
Punitive expeditions destroyed crops and stores and lifted cattle, leaving villagers to starve as a salutary lesson for resistance or revolt.
There had been countless rebellions and revolts during the second half of the 1790s.
These three essays show how Karl Barth's later work moved beyond his revolt against the theology dominant in the first decades of this century.
There was a general revolt against the leadership at the party congress.
He had in his spirit the classical outline of music, with nothing directly revolutionary, no sign of what we call revolt other than the strict adherence to personal relationship, no other prejudice than the artist's reaction against all that is not really refined to art, with but one consuming ardor, and that to render with extreme tranquillity everything delicate and lovely in passing things. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets
When a developer first proposed building infill housing on the playground and parking lot of an old school and turning the school into condominiums, the neighbors were ready for revolt.
And how can she believe men are imprisoned in this ornamentalism against which women have already revolted when women are as preoccupied by their looks as ever?
No doubt you read about this challenging art film's premiere this week at New York's Museum of Modern Art, where curators praised the film's revolt against phallocentrism and its use of the body as canvas for acts of transgressive violence. 'Jackass 3D': Tomfoolery and camaraderie in a whole new dimension
It is, in fact, the first flowering of fiscal revolt against the high taxes of the Nineties.
There was a general revolt against the leadership at the party congress.
In the height of his prosperity, the victorious monarch, who had chastised the rashness of Gallus, and suppressed the revolt of Sylvanus, who had taken the diadem from the head of Vetranio, and vanquished in the field the legions of Magnentius, received from an invisible hand a wound, which he could neither heal nor revenge; and the son of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
One day, the revolts against the party might become too much, especially if the economy turns sour. Times, Sunday Times
This violence is directed towards other national states, and the state's own population who revolt against the oppression they suffer.
By a combination of luck and behind-the-scenes maneuvering, he defused a player revolt, midway through his tenure, led by Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer. The Man Who Groomed the Game
The week past has shown, for the first time, that Labour backbenchers have found out how to revolt against ministers and that they are willing to do so.
The Confederate government provided troops to suppress slave revolts.
In Britain, an opposition party in total revolt can do only so much. Times, Sunday Times
One resident who spoke to the Los Angles Times described the uprising as a popular revolt against the occupying power.
In Britain, an opposition party in total revolt can do only so much. Times, Sunday Times
They excitedly planned their own revolt farther away from the watchful eye of the mukhabarat, or Arab intelligence agencies. Syria Revolt Fueled by Roof Fires and Tweets
Driven by a death wish and using the most revolting tactics, these heartless nihilists demand martyrdom.
The tape captures the band and frontman Ronnie James Dio being unable to erase the misery of Ozzy's departure, and to make peace with the democratic revolt of their audience.
Dozens of activists were detained, mass text messages were jammed and searches for the word "jasmine" were blocked on Chinese micro-blogging websites after a mysterious call to revolt spread over Twitter and other social-networking sites on Saturday and Sunday. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
(Dutch: Willem van Oranje) (1533-1584), was the leader of the [[Netherlands, history | Dutch Revolt]] as first stadholder of the Netherlands The stadholder was the hereditary chief executive and commander in chief of the United Provinces of the Netherlands. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
A sexual relationship between a priest and a teenage boy was regarded as wrong, just as liaison between two priests would be. but it did not count as a revolting abuse of trust .
Ambitious, brilliant entrepreneurs revolting against the old-line, hierarchical, East Coast work culture defined the Valley's earliest days.
It is such a revolting thing to have happened to such an amazing man.
The moment has long passed when reforms could have doused the fires of revolt. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile the land forces of the Peloponnesians who were with the Chians and of the allies on the spot, moved alongshore for Clazomenae and Cuma, under the command of Eualas, a Spartan; while the fleet under Diniadas, one of the Perioeci, first sailed up to Methymna and caused it to revolt, and, leaving four ships there, with the rest procured the revolt of Mitylene. The History of the Peloponnesian War
Next, there's a revolt brewing among lobbyists (including the so-called do-gooders) who say they're being denied both government jobs as well as the constitutional right to petition just because they have "lobbied" in the past. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
However, no significant slave revolt took place in the Confederacy as the war progressed.
Meanwhile, units of the army mutinied, civil war broke out, cities and villages rose in revolt and Afghanistan began to slip away from Moscow's control and influence.
Attempts to negotiate peace ended in armed revolt.
That there were fewer revolts in the second half of the century was due in no small part to a growing mutual understanding between rulers and nobilities, the history of which has attracted less attention than the revolts themselves.
I guess in this case, the implicit argument is that the failure - if that's what it is - of Dean's populist revolt should be laid at the feet of the bloggers and the emergent democracy vanguard.
Don't we all have thoughts that would strike other people as revolting? Times, Sunday Times
I don't know how you can eat that revolting stuff!
This tribe has been well affected toward the French, but they are at present somewhat in revolt.
Even the accounts of the slave revolt are woven skillfully into the novel.
All these ideologies although they reflected in fact the sentiment directly due to social antitheses, that is to say, the real class struggles, with a lofty sense of justice and a profound devotion to an ideal, nevertheless all reveal ignorance of the true causes against which they hurled themselves by a an act of revolt spontaneous and often heroic. Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History
Appropriately, the cultural-historical monument has been built close to where King Sakha raised his banner of revolt and ultimately welded his people into the force that it is today.
Salvestro de 'Medici, gonfalonier, ended the admonitions, which were the basis of the Guelf terrorism, and a violent revolt of the ciompi (the poorest workmen) broke out. 3. Florence
Many of my friends disliked the film intensely - even if they had admired it on some nebulous level, they were antagonized and revolted, irritated and unappreciative.
People revolted by what he did. The Sun
The smell in the cell was revolting.
More systematic than previous repressions, the example did much to ensure that revolts did not recur, even during the infinitely harsher and more extortionate later years of the reign.
Anti-Soviet revolts broke out periodically—in particular in 1929–1930, as agriculture was forcibly collectivized—but they were put down by NKVD troops. The Return
He urged people to revolt against the established government and turn the revolution against the king although he preferred to remain aloof from the actual events.
Troops were called in to crush/put down the revolt.
Souza's work communicates a fear and hatred of the practice and symbols of a religion that fascinate and revolt him in turn.
We were revolted by the dirt and mess in her house.
Cagliari" by the Neapolitans on the high seas; our attitude towards the Paris Congress of 1857; while in 1858 he led the revolt against Lord Palmerston's proposal to amend the Conspiracy Laws in deference to Louis Napoleon; in 1860 vigorously denounced the annexation of Savoy and Nice; and in 1864 moved the amendment to Biographical Study of A.W. Kinglake
The roots of the revolt grew out of the festering hatred for the domineering colonial governor.
So here we/they are worshiping at - again in all inner rectitude - stones set down by one of their cruelest arch-nemeses for his own self-glorification and vanity and also as a sop (which many since have swallowed) to keep the people otherwise occupied, rather than in revolt. Robert Eisenman: The Greatest "Heritage Site" of All
Oliver Wendell Holmes expressed this matter well: It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
Anointed and fragrant as an Asiatic despot, the strong Ulysses would sometimes revolt against this effeminateness. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel
The point is the baronage was not united against King John, and of the knightage only a small percentage was in revolt.
How much more oppression will this country take before it does rise up in revolt as is our right under the Constitution? Your Inauguration Reaction
Are they waiting for the public to revolt one day?
If we don’t want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we’re stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions. Ellen Degeneres
Instead townspeople speak of Maan's glorious role in sparking another great rebellion, the Arab revolt against the Ottomans.
Of those four members of religion we hold a slender proportion. 38 There are, I confess, some new additions; yet small to those which accrue to our adversaries; and those only drawn from the revolt of pagans; men but of negative impieties; and such as deny Christ, but because they never heard of him. Religio Medici
R&D unit - which has brought us Nicam, Teletext, DAB, colour TV - celebrated its sixtieth birthday in August but faced a staff revolt over plans to move from its stately home at Kingswood Warren, Surrey, in to White City, London. MocoNews
There were Royalist revolts, an especially serious one occurring in 1655.
The gas revolt is the second wave of protest to rock Bolivia this year.
Trying to restore the'public service ethos' would risk both consumer and producer revolts. Times, Sunday Times
This revolting, dirty filthy sight had me retching in disgust.
Feminist critic Elaine Showalter has gone so far as to claim hysteria as a root or first step of feminism--a kind of protolanguage of revolt communicating through the body messages that can't be verbalized, especially in a period of time when women or that matter men had no framework for signifying their often largely psycho-sexual repressions. G. Roger Denson: "Old," "Crazy" and "Hysterical." Is That All There Is?
Second, the relative ease with which it is possible to define forts and fortresses allows us to consider the impact of the revolt on military dispositions.
The traders, already feeling persecuted by the new system, rose in revolt against proposed restrictions, citing increased costs at a time of reduced revenues.
We turned in disgust from the revolting scene, but were unable to leave the spot until the captain had satisfied a noisy group of his own people, who were demanding a supply of stores. Roughing It in the Bush
We don't bring up to these issues to provoke people to throw a massive revolt or to propagandise political left views.
The grumblings, however, may be less an indication of an impending military revolt than the last feeble lashing out of those weaned on the old ways.
But their parties are in open revolt. Times, Sunday Times
When modernists eventually revolted against academic history painting, they did not uniformly abandon this august dream.
I gaped at her, stuck between being infuriated and revolted.
He revolted from the Roman Church and by 1613-14 was again a Protestant, later becoming a doctor of divinity at Cambridge and chaplain to the king.
At the time I thought they where the height of utter revoltingness but now appreciate their beauty and kitschness. Welcome to Greg's home!
And then these Daarians come, and take over, and now you see normally law-abiding citizens revolting left and right!
There's a tax revolt under way in Upstate New York.
The news of the revolt meant she had to rewrite her speech.
The cabinet and the party were close to open revolt. Times, Sunday Times
If the peso continues plummeting, however, a popular revolt cannot be discounted.
A group of writers, especially of writers who were in revolt against big business and the corruption of the trusts, were about to effect a combination and start what was to be called the _National Magazine_; for it was to be no less than that, a magazine embracing all America, to serve as a re-invigorant and re-corroborant for new national ideals ... really only a tilting against the evils of big combinations, in favour of the earlier and more impossible ideals of small business units -- the ideal of a bourgeois commercial honesty and individual effort that could no more be re-established than could the big shoe factory be broken up and returned to the shanty of the village shoemaker .... Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative
Freskyn family appointed guardians; rebellion of MacHeths; king William's expedition against thanes of Ross: chartulary; revolt of Donald Ban MacWilliam; king Hakon's proposed raid (1263); no Norse place-names on seaboard; Sutherland and Caithness in Saga-Time or, The Jarls and The Freskyns
The so-called loyalties, sense of belonging and togetherness are revolting cliches.
I had lasted 12 seconds of this revolting and inhumane practice. The Sun
We can hasten its collapse, but only if we are prepared to turn our intermittent campaigns into a sustained revolt. THE AGE OF CONSENT
It soon fizzled out, though the ‘revolt’ in France did lead to some educational reforms.
All the rest is a soap opera dreamed up by politicians and their lickspittles in the London media, just as mad Roman emperors gave their citizens bread and circuses to keep them from revolting.
Roman victories had not only brought wealth and land to the propertied class, but vast numbers of slaves, creating the conditions for revolt.
However, if their rulers take the path of self-aggrandizement, which is virtually inevitable in the absence of accountability, then these people will begin to experience indignity and eventually they will revolt, often to settle for a new ruler who is perceived as more benign and dignity-respecting, but not necessarily democratic. Robert Fuller: Bridging Left and Right: A Foundation for Transpartisan Politics
Finally, on the verge of another slave revolt, the King of Denmark abolished slavery in 1848 in what was now called the Danish West Indies. U.S. Virgin Islands, United States resort colony, bought for $25 million; 2nd in a 21st Century American Colonies series
Those who are in revolt against society are conformists; they reject one form of conformity and accept another form of conformity.
He urged workers around the world to revolt against their rulers.
To his rear a revolt of Pueblo Indians and unreconciled Mexicans was crushed by Price in January 1847, while Doniphan with 600-700 Missouri volunteers overawed the powerful Navajo.
From time to time, when they have ingurgitated too violent liquids, they revolt, and then they must be slaughtered, for once let loose they would act as a crazed stampeded herd. Là-bas
Fearing a taxpayers'revolt, the legislature passed a less confiscatory revenue bill.
The area, a focus for the Kurdish revolt against Ankara, is in a military state of emergency.
The revolt in the north is believed to have been instigated by a high-ranking general.
In truth, I found his malformed body and dim ways somewhat revolting. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
Not only have they revolted against the attempts by the whips to nobble select committees, they're starting to talk out of turn in Westminster.
Rashid, whose own Islam is a civil and humane affair, is revolted by these tribal sectaries.
Many media commentators said they were "disturbed" or "revolted" by what they described as a choreographed attempt by the Socialist politician to apologise and launch a counter-offensive at the same time. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed

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