7 sentences with 'rebel'
Example sentences and phrases with the word rebel and other words derived from it.
• « Ali was assassinated by a rebel (unrelated to the struggle for power over the caliphate) in 661, which consolidated the Umayyad claim to power, but not the doctrinal dispute between Shia and Sunni. »
• « The committee restored order in the rebel areas by sending its members on missions with instructions for ruthless repression, again backed by violence. »
• « A western region of France, the Vendée, had been the scene of the largest royalist insurrection against the Revolution in early 1793, with a rebel army of conservative peasants. »
• « From Asia to Latin America, independence movements and rebel groups that adopted communist ideology were targeted by the United States, while those that avoided it rarely attracted the ire of either superpower. »
• « He spent three years in jail for daring to serenade Franco with the banned Catalan anthem, and was the first politician to express his support for King Juan Carlos when rebel civil guards attacked the Spanish parliament in February 1981. »
• « Far from being unified and content under Aztec rule, many peoples in Mexico resented and were ready to rebel. »
• « Gage's actions led to the formation of local rebel militias that could be mobilised in a minute. These "minutemen", many of whom were veterans of the French and Indian War, played an important role in the war for independence. »