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Example sentences for: rebellion

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As the forces of rebellion gathered momentum this spring in the Republic of Zaire, commentators felt obliged to offer a thumb-sucking retrospective on the country's embattled and dying president, Mobutu Sese Seko, who had held power for more than three decades.
A rebellion by Ukrainian and Russian-speaking minorities ended in 1992, with the Romanian-speaking majority government retaining control over only half of the country.
He surrendered at Yorktown during the American War of Independence (1781), subdued Tipu Sultan (1792); as viceroy of Ireland, he suppressed the rebellion of 1798.
The film's epilogue mentions that he fled Tibet in 1959, though it mentions neither that this took place in the middle of an attempted rebellion against the occupiers nor that his Buddhist beliefs had previously led him to cooperate with the Chinese.
Uganda's New Vision ("For a Better Uganda") scored a scoop of sorts in its coverage of the rebellion against President Laurent Kabila by Congolese troops in the eastern regions of Congo.