Sentences with phrase «armed rebellion»

The marginalized, lacking life's most basic necessities, have looked to armed rebellion as their only defense.

The citizens of Warsaw, determined to secure their own freedom rather than be liberated by the approaching Russians, rose up in armed rebellion against the Nazi occupiers.

By the late 1930s, Begin, as leader of the Revisionist youth movement in Poland, rejected the pro-English orientation of Jabotinsky and urged armed rebellion against the British mandate.

However, he did not claim that Jesus was the leader of an actual armed rebellion.

The food price hikes triggered the protests that evolved into armed rebellion, in response to Assad's indiscriminate violence against demonstrators.

Director Gary Ross tells the tale of Newton Knight's armed rebellion against the Confederacy.

The Lord's Resistance Army, a cult guerrilla army engaged in an armed rebellion against the Ugandan government, has been accused of using child soldiers and committing numerous crimes against humanity; including massacres, abductions, mutilation, torture, rape, porters and sex slaves.

The 2nd Amendment guaranteed individual citizens the rights to own arms JUST AS GOOD as those of the regular soldiers they might have to oppose in an armed rebellion — the very sort of armed rebellion that the writers of the 2nd Amendment had recently successfully engaged in, defeating the most powerful military force on the planet using their own guns, which were JUST AS GOOD as what the British regulars and their Hessian mercenaries had.

There were no armed rebellions or the like.

Not too long after these letters, and by the end of 1794, George Washington militarily put down an armed rebellion by moonshiners in western Pennsylvania (the Whiskey Rebellion).

Cotton production was introduced in Uganda in the 1940s, but the sector virtually collapsed between 1972 and 1986 due to poor prices, non - or delayed payment and an unfavourable policy environment attributed to armed rebellion and insecurity.

If we look at the history of British Raj, we can see that armed rebellions and revolts were routinely crushed by the British government as they had superior firepower.

Yep, and now we have people like Bobby Jindal [Republican governor of Louisiana]-- who always follows his party's rightwing, never leads it — declaring that an armed rebellion by rightwing «Christians» is in the offing.

If your family is holding an armed rebellion at the idea of you throwing away their frozen waffles, cereal, and chips, a baby - step approach may be needed.

Based on a true story, «Free State of Jones» will star McConaughey as Newton Knight and Mbatha - Raw as Rachel, a slave whose relationship with Knight played a central part in his life and in his armed rebellion against the Confederacy during the Civil War.