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Sentence count:183+15Posted:2017-03-19Updated:2020-07-24
Antonym: supportSimilar words: rebelliousrebelantebellumembellishbellicosebelligerentbillionstallionMeaning: [rɪ'belɪən]  n. 1. refusal to accept some authority or code or convention 2. organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another. 
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91. Mindful, perhaps, of the events of 1801 and 1825, he feared aristocratic recalcitrance more than a peasant rebellion.
92. On 3 October 1745 Drummond was forced to suspend payments - allegedly because he supported the Jacobite rebellion.
93. Instead townspeople speak of Maan's glorious role in sparking another great rebellion, the Arab revolt against the Ottomans.
94. In all 646 soldiers and civilians were arrested and accused of supporting the rebellion.
95. So I went into the army. Looking back on it, I realize it was some sort of act of rebellion.
96. At that time the Conservative majority over all other parties exceeded 130 so the result demonstrated a major back-bench rebellion.
97. It was also reported that three dismissed military officers had been charged with rebellion and murder in connection with the December coup attempt.
98. There had been no quietly sprouting seeds of rebellion at Por Tanssie; of that he was sure.
99. He led a rebellion by poorly organized indigenous people that lasted 10 days and resulted in at least 140 deaths.
100. The rally was held as the government managed to contain a week-long military rebellion that came dangerously close to succeeding.
101. But politically[http://sentencedict.com/rebellion.html], the rebellion in the Cabinet is a serious and telling blow.
102. The Aboriginal rebellion is as tragic as life aboard the Sincerity is hilarious.
103. In 1685 five men were hanged at Wareham by order of the infamous Judge Jeffreys for participation in Monmouth's rebellion.
104. I shall describe later the hostile response to this demand, putting it into the context of sixteenth-century protest and rebellion.
105. Evans' pictures reflect his rebellion against the styles of other popular photographers.
106. In 1988 Margaret Thatcher squeezed sight-test charges through Parliament only after a Tory rebellion that shrank her majority by 28 votes.
107. The militancy of sectarian party orthodoxy is fused with the militancy of rebellion against personal oppression.
108. In order to avoid a major rebellion, Father eventually gave in and lugged my piece of wood all the way to Berwickshire.
109. When he followed Jamel to Oxford he immediately joined the Communist Party, more as an act of rebellion than anything else.
110. Two more were spurred into it through outright rebellion against their mothers' ideas, with more than a touch of stubbornness.
111. This culture prizes conformity, and frowns on any form of rebellion.
112. It all culminated in a rebellion during 1881-82, led by a nationalistic army officer, Colonel Ahmed Arabi.
113. Right-wing rumblings of rebellion over the reshuffle have raised the prospect of them mounting a challenger to Mr Major's leadership.
114. The last important resistance to modernization was crushed in the Satsuma rebellion of 1877.
115. The Duke of Ormond led a military rebellion against the new king.
116. State military volunteers, with the aid of federal troops, moved in to suppress the rebellion.
117. I remind myself that this entire industry began with a single act of rebellion against the management Upstairs.
118. Threats of an armed rebellion caused tightened security measures across the country.
119. But instead helping to crush the rebellion, the teachers grinned, shrugged and told the stewards to relax.
120. Her all-out rebellion against dance convention not withstanding, Streb came to modern dance via the usual route.
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