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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91. Indeed, the uprising was more a counterrevolution than a revolution.
92. Sidi Bouzid, a small town in Tunisia's unloved interior, is proud of its revolutionary son, whose self-immolation sparked the uprising that brought down the regime of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali.
93. Worse was to come on 21 August 1689, during the first Jacobite uprising.
94. An uprising that began in Vladivostok is now spreading to European Russia.
95. During the Nadd uprising, Arca Jeth was held captive by the vile King Ommin.
96. On June 16, 2002 the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum was opened near the place he was shot in Orlando West, Soweto to honour Hector and those who died around the country in the 1976 uprising.
97. The uprising was initiated with murderous pogrom-like attacks by Tibetan gangs on non-Tibetan members of the population, including the Muslim Chinese minority.
98. But the fighting there highlighted the increasingly militarized nature of an uprising started months ago by peaceful protesters.
99. After April's thwarted uprising by red-shirted protesters loyal to Thaksin Shinawatra, a fugitive former prime minister, Mr Abhisit resisted calls for an election.
100. Hamas, an acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement, is founded by Muslim Brotherhood members during the first intifada, or uprising, against the Israeli military presence in the West Bank and Gaza.
101. The uprising dealt a telling blow to villeinage, and a whole new class of yeomen farmers emerged, paving the way for the development of capitalism.
102. The statement said 'a small number' of people 'tried to incite splittism,[sentencedict.com] create disturbances in the marketplace and even trick the masses into an uprising.
103. Two weeks of street fighting eventually saw the uprising defeated, with the Sister of Battle Repressor proving their worth.
104. After the Wuchang Uprising, Guangdong independence, Hu Ren Liang captaincy general for the military government Minister.
105. The neoconservative policy response to an undead uprising would be simple and direct.
106. The Government of the Qing Dynasty collaborated with foreign reactionary forces to crush down the peasant uprising of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
107. Due to the containerization of international sea transportation and the uprising containership size, the inter-port competition is getting intensive.
108. This was a genuine popular uprising on the part of the deceived partisans of the Khomeini revolution.
109. Mr Duvalier, or "Baby Doc" as he's also known, was forced into exile in 1986 following a mass uprising.
110. Number 1 was the uprising that toppled Ben Ali and forced him to flee and number 2 was the sit-in that toppled the first caretaker government a month later.
111. The surveillance files found here include emails written as recently as February, after the Libyan uprising had begun.
112. Taliban insurgency is spreading in its north-west frontier region, fuelled partly by a similar Pushtun uprising against NATO and American troops in Afghanistan (see article).
113. It was Kingu who contrived the uprising, And made Tiamat rebel, and joined battle.
114. But this is more of a sign of Kid Icarus: Uprising and Resident Evil: Revelations looking amazing rather than Ocarina of Time looking bad.
115. Gasoline prices have shot up an average of 35 cents per gallon since an uprising in Libya began in mid-February.
116. The crustal movement in Three Gorges Reservoir Area has been intermittent uprising movement since Cenozoic era.
117. On this basis, combining the distribution feature of sulfide in mantle and the model of mantle diapir uprising, the model of formation and evolution of second stage magma has been advanced.
118. Comrade Mao Tsetung personally leads the Autumn Harvest Uprising lights the brightest torch, builds up the first people's armed force and establishes the first revolutionary base in the countryside.
119. Along with the uprising of nonferrous metals brokers and down of real estate since the increasing interest policy, mechanical market gave a more excellent performance.
120. He was listening to "Youth of the Revolution, " which the rap group Music Masters wrote just days after the uprising began in mid-February.
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