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Example sentences for "rebellion"

Lexicographically close words:
rebel; rebell; rebelled; rebelles; rebelling; rebellions; rebellious; rebelliously; rebelliousness; rebellow
  1. Hush, Feodor; this is my affair," Adrian said, divining the rebellion at this last before it could take speech.

  2. And so it came to pass that she was with him among the hills of the frontier when, like a pent flood suddenly escaping, the storm of rebellion broke and seethed about them, threatening them with total annihilation.

  3. Let us make," said he, "Allah and His Prophet our guide and defence, and then neither presumption nor rebellion shall lead us into error.

  4. My purpose this morning was to go surrounded by the nobles of my Court; but while rebellion stalketh abroad, pageants are idle, and the parade of a Sultan's pilgrimage will give my enemies time to increase in their numbers and strength.

  5. In another chapter I told you of the rebellion of the Filipinos against Spain.

  6. When they heard of the rebellion in Cuba, they thought they would make another attempt against Spain, and so began a new rebellion.

  7. One of the leaders in the rebellion was a young man named Aguinaldo.

  8. In all the provinces of the Mahometan empire the spirit of rebellion against Mervan II, the last Caliph of the Ommiyyad dynasty, was aroused.

  9. They are said to have attempted the life of Anan, and to have accused him of planning a rebellion against the Caliph, who thereupon threw him into prison, where, the legend goes on to relate, a Mahometan was incarcerated.

  10. When the news of this rebellion reached Phocas, he appointed Bonosus governor of the East, and Cotys, commander of the troops, and charged them to bring the rebels to account.

  11. With the tocsin of rebellion and the sword of war against the reigning Almoravides, Ibn-Tumart spread his religious and moral reformation in the northwest of Africa.

  12. The preamble of the act declared that "The Rebellion still continues .

  13. After the suppression of the rebellion an act of indemnity was passed in 1801.

  14. In the midst of the danger Mary showed great intrepidity, and the rebellion was presently quelled; after which, unhappily, she got leave to pursue her own course unchecked.

  15. But it is as affecting the subjects of the crown in rebellion that the subject of martial law really obtains its chief importance; and it is in this sense that the term is generally used; i.

  16. When the Great Rebellion broke out Marten did not take the field, although he was appointed governor of Reading, but in parliament he was very active.

  17. At the outbreak of the Great Rebellion he was with the king at York, but he soon joined the Parliamentary army.

  18. Upon the threat of invasion followed by rebellion in 1715, the first action of the government was to issue a proclamation authorizing all officers, civil and military, by force of arms (if necessary) to suppress the rebellion.

  19. After the rebellion had been suppressed two statutes were passed, one for indemnity and the other for pardon.

  20. The gist of all they deliver, is rebellion against GOD.

  21. It is easy now to argue that, as the force of the rebellion was being broken, it would have been more humane to have allowed those who had plotted and directed it to go unpunished.

  22. By the end of the year the worst of the rebellion was over.

  23. The presence of such a large number of troops in Ireland was quite accounted for by the fact that the rebellion was still to some extent going on, and that there was again a danger of a French invasion.

  24. By July, although fighting was still going on in the Wicklow mountains and some other parts of the country, the worst of the rebellion in Wexford was crushed, and an Act of Amnesty was carried through Parliament.

  25. In the North of Ireland, however, the rebellion had practically begun.

  26. As soon as the rebellion was put down, the great legislator Edward III made another effort at introducing order into the distracted land.

  27. After he had disappeared from the scene, his work was taken up by those of his followers who advocated physical force; and in 1848 an actual rebellion broke out, headed by Smith O'Brien.

  28. Still, that there was a widespread rebellion and all the consequent horrors of civil war, there can be no doubt.

  29. Though the violent outbreak of rebellion had been put down, many parts of the country were in a state of anarchy.

  30. Except in countries such as England where the sovereigns adopted the new opinions, the only chance which the reforming party had of being able to exercise their religion was by means of rebellion and all the horrors of civil war.

  31. He had doubtless obtained his information from the returns made by the priests engaged in the rebellion to the military leaders, the figures of which were much the same.

  32. The sad story of the Earl of Derwentwater, executed in 1716 for participation in the rebellion of the previous year, is well known.

  33. At the time of our incarceration in Andersonville, the crisis of the war of the rebellion was reached.

  34. The Rebellion was simply an armed resistence of the rightful authority of the sovereign.

  35. Chipman on page 503 of his recent and informing book on Andersonville: "The rebellion out of which the war grew was without any legal sanction.

  36. On the roofs they had plenty of cover, and this cover conferred on them a mobility which was their chief asset, and which alone enabled them to protract the rebellion beyond the first day.

  37. Now Hell stands for the very opposite, since all the spirits therein are in rebellion against God.

  38. If then it were possible for them to receive even a little drop of such union, it would deprive them of all rebellion against God, and would so unite them with Love, with God Himself, as to make them be in Life Eternal.

  39. A just God who punishes rebellion demands it of His servants.

  40. A Southern man, the head of a Southern family, the Judge opposed the rebellion and openly sided with the Government.

  41. It is His will, and what is the impotent rebellion of Nature against that?

  42. But for the existence of the white, vine-embowered house and the garden full of scents and bloom, Tom's position at the close of the rebellion was far less fortunate than it had been at the time the mystery of Blair's Hollow had occurred.

  43. Since the firing of the first gun of the rebellion there has been no hour fraught with so much danger as is the present.

  44. Two great necessities forced this nation to extend justice and equality to the negro: First, Military necessity, which compelled the abolition of the crime and curse of slavery, before the rebellion could be overcome.

  45. Whatever may have been the case with Kossuth, and some of his more ambitious confederates, the mass of the Hungarian people had no wish whatever to rise in rebellion against their king.

  46. The elements of rebellion were then at work, which, a few years later, led to open revolt, and the total ruin of the nation.

  47. You shall for capitall and criminal justice in case of rebellion and mutiny and in all such cases of [provident (?

  48. Salvian has described their distress and rebellion in very forcible language.

  49. The fathers, whose sons he had massacred, the husbands, whose wives he had violated, were subject to his authority; and the success of his rebellion encouraged the ambition of every leader of the foreign mercenaries.

  50. The same rebellion had been supported by the zeal and activity of Aetius, who brought an army of sixty thousand Huns from the Danube to the confines of Italy, for the service of the usurper.

  51. The first events of the reign of Arcadius and Honorius are so intimately connected, that the rebellion of the Goths, and the fall of Rufinus, have already claimed a place in the history of the West.

  52. For ages the Church had trodden the peasantry under foot, and in the Peasants' Rebellion there were terrible reprisals.

  53. This event was followed by various acts of violence directed against the adherents of the reformed faith, which so exasperated the population that in May, 1525, a rebellion broke out in all parts of the principality.

  54. In fact it is the absence of all law--and can only be endured when a country is on the eve of rebellion or actually in rebellion.

  55. Those monarchical states, the most adverse to revolution, combine to assist the rebellion of a people against its sovereign, a rebellion commenced by murder and continued by treachery, stained with every crime that ever disgraced human nature!

  56. Rebellion sticks at nothing,--least of all, rebellion beginning in Slavery.

  57. The Government is assailed by a rebellion without precedent.

  58. During weary, anxious weeks, while the Rebellion was preparing, and Senators were leaving their seats to organize hostile governments, Mr. Sumner resisted appeals to speak.

  59. From the beginning Mr. Sumner never doubted that rebellion must cause the end of Slavery.

  60. As the Rebellion assumed its warlike proportions, his perception of our duties was none the less clear.

  61. If by any accident the Rebellion should prevail, then, just in proportion to its triumph, through concession on our part or successful force on the other part, will the Union be impaired and peace be impossible.

  62. Nearly all our people have come to the conclusion, that, whenever it is necessary to crush out the Rebellion to abolish Slavery, then the Government must abolish it.

  63. This is the Rebellion which I am to unmask.

  64. The moment this is done, Rebellion will begin its bad luck, and the Union become secure forever.

  65. This final attempt to appease the spirit of Rebellion was on the last legislative day of the session.

  66. If you will kindly listen, I shall endeavor to unmask this Rebellion in its Origin and Mainspring.

  67. And thus it came into Irish history that some of these Butlers and Fitzgeralds have been century after century declared in rebellion against England.

  68. The demonstrations about the McManus funeral in Cork and Dublin, demonstrated to the English in Ireland that the spirit of rebellion was strong in the land; and all the English agencies of business were set to work to destroy it.

  69. Rufus King, the American Minister, waited on the English Ministry, and declared on behalf of his government that the United States could not consent to receive upon its soil men who had instigated the recent dreadful rebellion in Ireland!

  70. If further proof were required, it was supplied by some who recalled that the Canadian rebellion occurred during "the year when the stars fell.

  71. Mr. Marsh was admitted to the Bar in 1860 and commenced practice in his native county; but the rebellion soon served to change his occupation.

  72. In connection with this business he continued the practice of law until the breaking out of the Rebellion in 1861.

  73. The truth is that the language of rebellion through the ages is the same.

  74. In Germany rebellion on the psychic plane expresses itself in metaphysics; in Poland and Russia music is the safer medium.


  75. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rebellion" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    anarchy; chaos; commotion; confusion; disorder; disorganization; disruption; misrule; mutiny; nihilism; outbreak; rebellion; revolt; revolution; riot; rising; sedition; syndicalism; trouble; turmoil; unruliness; uprising