Sentences with phrase «failed uprising»

Born in 1879 to a Polish family who had fled to Kiev after the failed uprising against the Tsarist army, Malevich spent his childhood living in rural villages across Ukraine where he found a love of peasant art and embroidery.

Born in 1879 to a Polish family who had fled to Kiev after the failed uprising against the Tsarist army, Kazimir Malevich spent his childhood living in villages across Ukraine, where he developed a love of peasant art and embroidery.

The story takes place in the republic of Panem, where the United States has broken into 12 districts and, as a penalty for a failed uprising against the totalitarian government decades earlier, each district must offer one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 and 18 to participate in The Hunger Games, where the «tributes» must participate in a nationally televised battle to the death.

Turkey has detained nearly 16,000 people for suspected links to the failed uprising, and about half of them were formally arrested to face trial.

In March, India issued an unprecedented ban on Tibetans holding a rally with the Dalai Lama in New Delhi to mark the 60th anniversary of the start of the failed uprising against Chinese rule.

Not exact matches

By the time I came to read Orwell in my teens in the late 1950s, communism had already been exposed as the God that failed by the brutality which crushed the Hungarian uprising of 1956 and Khrushchev's denouncement of the realities of Stalinism.

Moreover, successful uprisings have failed to realize coherent progress and there has been a remarkable slowdown in the transformation processes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen, and one could even state that there are efforts of counter-revolutions.

These talks failed, and the Second Intifada, the second Palestinian uprising against Israel, ensued.

These uprisings ultimately failed to produce meaningful gains in the House of Commons but they had long - lasting repercussions nonetheless.

Diplomatic sources and NPP insiders confirmed to this paper that the two former Ukraine «fighters» were invited into the country to train a «special wing» of the biggest opposition party on how to «recruit and mobilize» people to stage a Ukrainian - like uprising in Ghana should Nana Akufo - Addo fail to win the presidential election for the third consecutive time.

Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick found a clever twist on zombie uprisings with Zombieland, and now they're giving us a look at the aftermath of a failed robot revolution, with their new movie Epsilon.

And it's all about the surviving robots after a failed robot uprising, and their pet humans!

As they work on their forthcoming titles, the co-founders, who have their own personal projects in development — Lee is working on a book about the struggles of being overly connected in the digital age (eg, texting, IM, e-mail); Love is working on her second novel, about how historians and politicians in the present day contort the history of a failed slave uprising in early 19th century Virginia — continue to experiment with what both the e-book platforms and their own website user experience will look like.