Synonym: insurrection, mutiny, rebellion, revolt, revolution, riot. Similar words: surprising, surprisingly, promising, advertising, crisis, derisive, comprise, prisoner. Meaning: n. organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another.
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31. It is as relevant to the present uprising as it was to the last 53 years of conflict.
32. The immediate sequel was an armed uprising in several cities, headed by Moscow.
33. The uprising was an echo of the student protests in the '60s.
34. At least 20 of the rebel junior officers who staged the uprising surrendered by late afternoon.
35. One night, he found himself with a few other police enveloped in the hatred of a black township uprising.
36. This shift was evidenced in a highly dramatic form in the spontaneous mass uprising in Santo Domingo in 1965.
37. The goal of the uprising was to overthrow the colonial government.
38. Repercussions were also felt in Tabasco where General Ignacio Martinez led an uprising of short duration.
39. Prior to the uprising, indigenous leaders from Chimborazo had been conferring with their counterparts in other areas of the Sierra.
40. On July 2, Chennault wrote Hopkins of a peasant uprising in Gansu.
41. The effect was to trigger off a largely middle-class uprising designed to break the chains hampering economic growth and professional advancement.
42. The site suggests that considerable preparation was made for the uprising.
43. But as normality resumes[http://sentencedict.com], a strange myth still hovers around the popular uprising that overthrew Slobodan Milosevic.
44. The short-lived uprising fizzled out in the face of strong opposition from government forces.
45. The Shiites thought they were doing what President Bush wanted when they staged their uprising in March 1991.
46. Conditions in Kursk town seemed propitious for an anti-Bolshevik armed peasant uprising in October.
47. The regime was overthrown by a popular uprising on Dec. 22, 1989.
48. Recruits to the rebel cause were also thought to include students and survivors of the failed 1985 uprising led by Brig.
49. The day he shook off their protection they instigated a guerrilla uprising backed by their own troops.
50. The new law prompted a pro-democracy uprising in the south.
51. Some seek revenge for atrocities committed in suppressing the Shia uprising.
52. This uprising was ruthlessly suppressed and many Samaritans, including the leaders, were exterminated in the process.
53. As he spoke, details continued to pour in of demonstrations and police brutality matched only by the harshly-suppressed 1953 uprising.
54. The government is attempting to throttle the uprising before it spreads.
55. Troops were sent in to crush the uprising at Carandiru prison in Sao Paulo.
56. Furthermore, future international progress towards peace seemed likely to remain contingent on the strength and durability of the Uprising.
57. This international acceptance was emphatically less the result of the peace process than of the Uprising.
58. His ministers claim that Britain and the United States are supporting a rebel uprising in the north.
59. There is a boy of about the same age in Kanal, Andrzej Wajda's epic film of the Warsaw uprising.
60. Chun and Tae-Woo Roh, who would succeed him in 1988, put down the uprising by dispatching government troops.
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