Sentences with phrase «led rebellions against»

Countess Meliara and her brother Bran lead a rebellion against the king in light of his secret plot to break the covenant the kingdom's people hold with the hill folk, but their army is ill - prepared and she falls into enemy hands — or at least, what she thinks are enemy hands.

The source said, «Those leading the rebellion against Tinubu are politicians who lost their wards and constituencies in elections, even when they were governors.

When asked if Afenifere leaders had forgiven Tinubu, whom they had always accused of leading the rebellion against the group, the elder statesman said, «He has not offended me, if you are referring to me as a person.»

Tacitus, the Roman historian, reports that in 9 C.E. a member of the Germanic Cherusci tribe called Arminius led a rebellion against the Romans near the village of Kalkriese in northern Germany.

Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley) learns that she's a divergent and by the end of the first film, she leads a rebellion against leader Jeanine Matthews (Kate Winslet).

I'm excited for the new antagonist, Zenzi, who is leading a rebellion against T'Challa.

In the «Snowpiercer» international trailer, Chris Evans leads a rebellion against the upper class on a futuristic train.

The veteran of «The Hours» and «Boogie Nights» will play Alma Coin, who leads a rebellion against the Capitol.

Comparisons will immediately be drawn between Divergent and The Hunger Games, as both are dystopian sci - fi film series based on a trilogy of young adult novels written by women, featuring teenage female protagonists in an action - thriller scenario leading a rebellion against a corrupt and manipulative government force, while also engaging in a bit of romance on the side.

The film — directed and written by Nate Parker, who also stars in the lead role — focuses on the story of Turner, the Virginia slave who led a rebellion against slave owners in 1831.

In the final installment in The Hunger Games franchise, Katniss Everdeen leads a rebellion against the corrupt and tyrannical city, Capitol.

It tells the true story of a white farmer who led a rebellion against the confederacy with the help of other farmers and local slaves.

He grows up with the tribe and eventually leads a rebellion against House Harkonnen, who now rule Arrakis, finally brokering a peace with the Emperor Shaddam IV (Giancarlo Giannini) and the mysterious Spacing Guild, which owns all the spaceships.

Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Gamemaker Plutarch (the late Philip Seymour Hoffman) are the centerpieces of the new footage depicting a broken Katniss, emotionally and physically drained from two trials of the Hunger Games, and how she must conjure enough strength to lead the rebellion against the capital.

As Deadline reports, the tale centers on «an orphan [who] is taken to the magical world of Neverland, where he becomes the savoir [sic] of the natives and leads a rebellion against the evil pirates.»

The first not only saves his life, but also makes Blackbeard suspicious that Peter may be the fulfillment of a prophesy about a human with the power of flight who will lead a rebellion against the his powerful rule.

To escape, Rex and Sasha team up with a mis - programmed combat drone and an intelligent mutant plant to lead a rebellion against their merciless corporate overlords.

The breed acquired its current name during the eighteenth century, when Dutch patriot Cornelis (Kees) de Gyselaer led a rebellion against the monarchy.

Using the Gittish Seal, the main character is able to bypass the Goretress» force fields and helps Sterling, the prison's foreman, to lead a rebellion against Goreham - Hogg.

Kai is found imprisoned by an evil alien race, but with the help of another, more benevolent set of aliens, she manages to escape and is now leading a rebellion against the evil creatures, while hoping to get back to Earth.

Together these two experiments represent an artist - led rebellion against the market and its professional classes — collectors, dealers, curators, academics (and, yes, critics)-- that is best summarized by a Bruce maxim: «An art world built solely to feed the industry isn't an interesting place to live.»

From his earliest work, dated to the late 1990s and inspired by the writings of Charles Fourier, an 18th - century utopian thinker, and the drawings of Henry Darger, an outsider artist and writer who produced a voluminous illustrated manuscript about pre-pubescent Amazons leading a rebellion against child abusers, Chan has been fascinated by the contrast between ideal visions and the violent, sexually charged feelings and sensations that inspire them.

The story follows a young woman who leads a rebellion against the police state that governs this new society.

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Writing about the Russian Revolution's failures, Orwell imagined a rebellion led by two pigs and farm animals against their human owner that replaces him with a commune of animals running his farm.

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The false prophets or dreamers who try to lead you astray must be put to death, for they encourage rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of slavery in the land of Egypt.

But as we see from Genesis 11, nations being united do not lead to righteousness, but to greater rebellion against God.

Matthew McConaughey stars in this historical epic that tells the story of a real - life farmer who helped lead his own rebellion against the Confederacy during the Civil War.

And classical music has been driven out by rock music, whose explicit sexual themes lead to rebellion against parental authority and to ruin of the youthful imagination, making «it very difficult for them to have a passionate relationship to the art and thought that are the substance of liberal education» (p. 79).

6, a certain Judas of Galilee had led an abortive rising against the Roman government, an underground resistance movement remained in being, and broke out sporadically from time to time, until at last they succeeded in precipitating a full - scale rebellion in AD.

Early in this awakening there appeared the new traditionalist movement, led by Timothy Dwight, who preached return to the old order, aroused the populace against the dangers of foreigners, attacked deistic heresies and rebellion among the youth, and urged maintaining the old establishment of religion.

In the call of Abraham to leave the home of his ancestors, in Moses» leading his people away from acquiescence in Egyptian slavery, in the prophetic protests against any localizing or naturalizing domestication of Yahweh's presence, in the apocalyptic rebellions against the status quo, in Jesus» idealizing of homelessness, in the Evangelists» turning our attention toward the Risen Lord and in St. Paul's relentless call to freedom from the slavery of legalism, we have a constant chorus of discontent at the idea that we can find our fulfillment in what nature apart from history has given us.

He does, after all, have the face of a man who, following a brief, scandalous affair with one of Queen Elizabeth's ladies - in - waiting, would die leading a small and unspectacular rebellion against the Crown.

Dr. Benjamin Spock, the last word in child rearing for many American families through much of the 20th century, recommended against any training in the first year, believing that it could lead to rebellion later through bedwetting.

He hoped, perhaps believed, his resignation would lead to a rebellion against Brown and that David Miliband would become prime minister.

Jason Clarke (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes) may lead the human rebellion against Skynet in the «Terminator» reboot directed by Alan Taylor (Thor: The Dark World).

Kenny Wormald stars as the city kid who moves to conservative Midwestern town and once there, he ends up leading the repressed teenagers into a rebellion against the town...

Her call to rebellion against the oppressive central government led by President Snow (Donald Sutherland) led to widespread death and destruction.

Nat Turner, who led an aborted rebellion against his slave owners in 1831, is the subject of a Pulitzer prize - winning novel by William Styron, «The Confessions of Nat Turner.»

Aspiring apprentice Rey (Daisy Ridley, «Murder on the Orient Express») hopes to update Luke on the latest with the rebellion and bring him back to join their outnumbered forces in the battle against the First Order, led by the sinister Supreme Leader Snoke (Andy Serkis, «War for the Planet of the Apes»).

Other times the societies he fought against destroyed him: the vengeful Detective Jim McLeod getting shot by a perp whose life he ruined in William Wyler's Detective Story (1951); Colonel Dax being sent back to the front by the World War One military brass he dared to defy in Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory (1957); Spartacus getting crucified for leading a slave rebellion in Kubrick's Spartacus (1960).

WHAT: After witnessing his young nephew killed while fighting on the front line of the Civil War, army medic Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey) returns to Mississippi and leads a militia of fellow deserters and runaway slaves in a rebellion against the local Confederate Army.

Students will look at Essex himself, and then the rebellion he led as well as the reasons why rebellions against Elizabeth often failed.

Linked to these performances is the film A day in the life of bliss (2014), a sci - fi tale starring boychild as a famous pop star leading a double life as an underground performer, an act of rebellion against the techno - totalitarian government.

Having fought industrial wind development for years in my community, I have come to understand that only a grassroots rebellion, led by rural environmentalists against the wealthy, powerful, special - interest, urban fake - environmentalists will be able to turn the tide.