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Example sentences for: revolt

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Discontent with the living conditions in East Berlin first erupted into open revolt on 17 June 1953.
He criticized his father for understanding too late the Iranian people's yearning for democracy, saying that this was the cause of his overthrow 20 years ago and now of the student revolt against the ayatollahs.
The momentum for change was growing, and in 1831 a black lay preacher named “Daddy” Sam Sharpe led a revolt of 20,000 slaves at Montego Bay.
Infinitely more costly in human terms was the Taiping Rebellion, which began in 1850 as a peasant revolt.
Her new book, The Greedy Hand: How Taxes Drive Americans Crazy and What To Do About It , argues that America is on the verge of a civic tax revolt.