revolt
Example Sentences
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According to Ekane's lawyers, he was accused of hostility against the state, incitement to revolt, and calls for insurrection.
From BBC
An attempt to tweak Lloyd’s dress code in 2014, by allowing men in the market to work in shirt sleeves on a blazing hot day, provoked an instant revolt, Beale said.
It also transcended local issues in an aspiration to become "the new face of a global and generational revolt," said the professor, who specialises in issues related to youth.
From Barron's
Visitor numbers to Tunisia had just begun to recover last year after more than a decade of blows, including Tunisia’s Arab Spring revolt at the end of 2010, the terrorist attacks and the coronavirus pandemic.
From New York Times
George III ruled England when the American colonies revolted and, much more pertinent to this spin, presided over a country and a family that profited to an obscene degree from the slave trade.
From Salon
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