counterrevolution

Example Sentences

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When Leo arrived at Cornell University as an undergraduate in the fall of 1983, a counterrevolution in the legal world was gaining momentum.

From Salon

The rest of the movie is about the Barbies deploying their political organizing skills and the Kens’ underdeveloped sense of self-awareness to successfully stage a counterrevolution and get their Dreamhouses back.

From Los Angeles Times

The historic 1919 Seattle general strike was partially ignited by longshore workers refusing to load a cargo of rifles intended to arm the czarist counterrevolution.

From Seattle Times

Sherry Ning, a writer in Toronto, was only half-joking when she recently tweeted, “The next counterrevolution is the return of whole milk.”

From New York Times

It wasn’t until graduate school, also at Michigan, that he shifted to French history, influenced by the sociologist Charles Tilly, author of “The Vendée,” a study of counterrevolution in France.

From New York Times