Sentences with phrase «rebellion against government»

It was also a time when the Zapatista rebellion against the government had galvanized indigenous people and international audiences.

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (also known as the Tamil Tigers), an independent militant organization, wanted to create an independent state in the northeast of the island and waged an on - again - off - again rebellion against the government for over 26 years.

This is to serve as punishment for a past rebellion against the government.

David Cameron on Tuesday night personally challenged the leader of the Tory rebels who launched a highly effective operation against House of Lords reform, involving unofficial whips, which produced the largest rebellion against the government of this parliament.

The prospect of a Lords rebellion against the government's emergency surveillance law grew today, after an influential committee of peers raised concerns about the legislation.

David Anderson: They are one of several factions supporting the rebellion against the government in Bamako.

Prospect of a Lords rebellion against the government's emergency surveillance law grows, after influential committee of peers raised concerns

The high moral standard (love your enemy and do good to those who do evil to you) was unattainable (and obviously unacceptable as well) by Jefferson — who was in fact in rebellion against a government in which the Bible demands he should have been submissive and subject to.

Not exact matches

Another key feature of the jihadists» ideology is their rejection of and often rebellion against established governments of Islamic countries.

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.

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.

Then, after a few months, at best only three years, of a public career in which He was hailed by a crowd which proved fickle and had won the adherence of a coterie of men and women who did not fully understand Him, He ran afoul of the leaders of the organized religion of His people, was accused by them of fomenting rebellion against the civil government, that of Rome, and was crucified by the order of the local representative of that government.

The biggest rebellion suffered by the coalition government so far against the whip was 82 (81 Tory, one Liberal Democrat) in October 2011's EU referendum vote

Media coverage of the case brought against the UK government by survivors of atrocities during the suppression of the Mau Mau rebellion reminded me of the reaction to my article all those years ago.

The Economist tactically advised Blair against provoking an «unwise» rebellion, because it understood that the sight of «a Labour government scuttling around the television studios justifying cuts in social security for lone parent families sickens members across a wide range of views» and provided «an issue which aligned [the left MPs] with the wider centre and right of the Labour Party against the Blairite modernisers» (13 December).

Tony McNulty's admission came as the government faces a Labour rebellion against its plans to raise the pre-charge detention limit from 28 to 42 days.

The problem is not so much that a number of Conservatives voted against the government - in fact, rebel Tory votes tipped the balance only once, in the unusual circumstances of the multiple rebellion on the European Economic Area amendment - or even that rather more Conservative peers didn't vote at all, because the government whips managed to bring in more than usual.

Of the two Tory abstainers, as a PPS until yesterday, Lee Scott, has no history of rebellion; meanwhile, Tracey Crouch, who also abstained, has still never actively voted in a division lobby against the government line.

The government then suffered its biggest Tory rebellion to date, in which one ministerial aide was sacked and one resigned as they joined colleagues to defy a three - line whip to vote against the second reading of the Lords reform bill.

Votes in which Conservative and Liberal Democrat rebels unite in common cause against the Government account for only one in five of the rebellions.»

They were Algerian guerrillas who were in rebellion against the French government at that time.

These volunteers (those profiled are all male) are ordinary people who felt compelled to become activists after the Arab Spring unleashed a rebellion against the tyrannical Assad government, causing a political vacuum that ISIS brutally exploited.

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.

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

Since Katniss volunteered for the games and defied the government with the support of Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), a fellow District 12 competitor, she's been forced into the limelight as a leader in the rebellion against the Capitol.

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.

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