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The popular insurrection gave the government a much greater mandate than any election.
You may have something approximated to armed insurrection or civil war, perhaps on the ground.
There were four anarchists on the Military Revolutionary Committee which organised the insurrection in Petrograd.
Meanwhile, a revolutionary insurrection by a disaffected Kentish mob threatens to bring anarchy to London.
Police blamed the explosion on rebels waging an armed insurrection in the kingdom.
The Maoist rebels have been waging a Marxist insurrection in Nepal for nine years to abolish the monarchy.
In February 1917 economic strikes and food protests led by women fused into a general strike that drew the army into an insurrection.
Never play with insurrection, but when beginning it be aware that you must go all the way.
The insurrection swept the old government from office and could only be crushed by the might of the Russian army.
We're too cowardly to actually commit insurrection, and its impossibility becomes a grimly mocking reminder of our impotence.
In 1920 British troops put down an insurrection in Iraq, and crushed protests and strikes in favour of independence in Egypt.
They were under the general orders of Mola and Franco, the leaders of the military insurrection that had sparked the Spanish Civil War.
At the peak of the insurrection, the defenders ran out of tear gas, and snipers began attempts to pick them off.
Throughout the whole insurrection not asingle imprisoned Communist was shot.
This was an orgy of hate-mongering and incitement to violence, insurrection and murder.
For a short while, the police continued to insist that they had thwarted an armed insurrection.
Although advocating non-violent protest, it proposes insurrection as a last resort.
It has grown into a nationwide insurrection by disillusioned suburban youths.
This law defined abolitionist petitions as agents of sedition and violent insurrection.
One sector, led by the Ministry of Education and the Mayor of Caracas, called for a popular insurrection to defend the government.
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When applied to by the rebel Shays, to become the leader of the insurrection in 1786, he rejected the proffer with indignation.
This capture so alarmed the national government that a force was sent under the command of Roca to put down the insurrection.
During that year there was a formidable insurrection of the slaves in Apulia.
The thought of the insurrection in Illyria counseled prudence to the most violent.
He has already been seized as an inciter to insurrection, because he bade his disciples to sell their garments and buy a sword.
While thus engaged, Cortez received intelligence that the province of panuco was in a state of insurrection.
The knowledge that an insurrection was impending was not confined to the Transvaal.
As the Greek insurrection develops, the Ionian Islands become a centre of interest.
When he summoned Pavia to open her gates to him, after her insurrection, how imperious he was!
Indeed, the days of the liberum veto were necessarily the days of legalized insurrection.
It's bad business to overwork and underpay your hands into a state of chronic insurrection.
He discussed with great good sense the causes and consequences of this unrepressed insurrection.
The news that all La vendee was in insurrection astonished and infuriated the Convention, which at once took steps to suppress it.
He was first ordered to quell the wahabi insurrection in Arabia, and his campaign there is alluded to in chap.
His mission was to put down the insurrection in that district, and the means he employed were draconic.
At the time I embarked on the Abraham Lincoln, the whole of this island had risen in insurrection against the despotism of the Turks.
Then arose the terrible insurrection known as the Jacquerie.
A formidable insurrection was attempted in 1822 by Denmark Vesey.
It took place with an armed insurrection in Petrograd traditionally dated to 7 November 1917 in the Gregorian calendar.
Should a popular insurrection happen in one of the confederate states the others are able to quell it.
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