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Example sentences for "revolt against"

  • As he was setting out on this venture, however, he was betrayed and arrested, was charged with fomenting a revolt against Velasquez, and was condemned to be hanged.

  • Many Irish went into the English army and navy, but there was another stream of fighting emigrants, that which flocked to the standard of revolt against England in America, of which much was to be heard thereafter.

  • Ten years before that he had accomplished, for the New York Herald, the equally daring and hazardous feat of joining the Cuban rebels in revolt against Spain.

  • All her career was a revolt against conventionality, against isolation, against irresistible natural forces, such as climate and ill-health and physical insignificance.

  • And by a third party, Judah was urged to revolt against Babylon, namely, by the banished Judaeans, who stood in constant communication with their native land by letters and messengers.

  • The distribution of the land revenue had become a political monstrosity in the midst of loans, taxes and treasury notes resorted to to supply its loss: and the public mind was in revolt against it.

  • He was even more in revolt against Amalia's ways.

  • Jean-Christophe soon tired of it; then he was sick to death of it; finally he could stand it no more, and tried to revolt against it.

  • As he is naturally in revolt against discipline, he loves them only the more.

  • At Cempoalla he connived at a revolt against Montezuma's tax gatherers.

  • English aid of an unofficial but substantial character was helping to sustain the Protestant Netherlands in revolt against Spain.

  • Spain, and put himself at the head of what purported to be a revolt against Rome.

  • The first represents hell in revolt against Heaven.

  • Revolt against Archelaus; the "War Period of Varus," governor of Syria.

  • I’m in revolt against a culture based on the status label.

  • From what little we know of Ernest Self and Peter Voss they might be in revolt against some of our current institutions but there is no reason to believe them, ah, un-American in the usually accepted sense of the word.

  • It is not a crime; it is a revolt against nature!

  • At last his bastard brother, Henry of Trastamara, rose in revolt against him.

  • In 1315 Llewelyn, after seeking justice in vain at the king's court, rose in revolt against Turberville.

  • It was in vain that Edward, the greatest of the marcher lords, persuaded David, the Welsh prince's brother, to rise in revolt against him.

  • Thus he acquired an influence which made him confident that should he speak the word the countryside would rally with him under the banner of revolt against Spain.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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