rebellion
Example Sentences
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But Jewan concealed an anti-colonial streak and Sikh activists gathered to talk rebellion at a retreat he built on the Ravi River, which zigzags across what is now the restive border between Pakistan and India.
The crash highlighted Turkey’s role as a power broker in Libya, an oil-rich country in north Africa that descended into political crisis and civil war after a 2011 rebellion overthrew former dictator Col.
Not all instances of rebellion are so obviously political.
From Los Angeles Times
But as the civilian government battled rebellions and internal divisions, it handed power to the military in 1958 for a two-year caretaker spell.
From Barron's
Mr. Dreisbach notes the powerful importance of the Exodus story of providential liberation and deliverance as the model for Americans’ rebellion against Britain’s pharaonic royalty.
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