8 sentences with 'uprisings'
Example sentences and phrases with the word uprisings and other words derived from it.
• « There were many slave uprisings, the most significant of which was led by Spartacus, a gladiator (warrior who fought for public amusement) originally from Thrace. »
• « Within their remaining territory, the caliphs also faced uprisings. Even the idea of a united (Sunni) ummah was a casualty of this political rupture - the ruler of the Spanish kingdom claimed to be the 'true' caliph, with a Shi'ite dynasty in Egypt known as the Fatimids contesting both claims as they rejected the very idea of a Sunni caliph. »
• « Although in the end these uprisings were generally put down in a bloody manner, the general trend was that workers had to be paid more; their labour was simply more valuable. »
• « Almost immediately, however, simmering resentment against the king's growing power erupted in a series of uprisings against the crown known as La Fronde, essentially a civil war led by the nobles against the monarchy (the rebels even formed a formal alliance with Spain). »
• « They were defeated by loyalist forces in 1653, but the uprisings made a deep impression on the young king, who vowed to bring the nobles into line. »
• « There were also huge uprisings in the east - in both the Austrian Empire and Russia, gigantic peasant uprisings managed to kill thousands of nobles, only to be finally put down by brutal government suppression. »
• « The period between the rulers ended when an assembly of nobles elected the first member of the Romanov family to hold the title of tsar in 1613 - Michael I - but the tsars remained weak and were plagued by both resistance from the nobles and huge peasant uprisings for many decades. »
• « The revolutionaries in 1793 feared foreign invasion and food shortages, along with royalist uprisings in parts of France itself. The result was the appointment of a dictatorial emergency committee, the Committee of Public Safety, headed by twelve of the most radical members of the republican government. »