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uprising

An uprising is a revolt by a group of people that attempts to get rid of a government or policies that the people do not like.

uprising

(= rebellion) organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

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The uprising was brutally suppressed.
His analysis of the causes of the uprising was correct.

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A double guard has been thrown around the jail, municipal buildings railroad terminals, and elevated stations to prepare for the expected general uprising of radicals at the hour of execution.
Any statement on the Red Uprising tomorrow?
Red Uprising?
There will be no Red Uprising.
By stagecoach to the 100 settlements and the 1000 farms.. standing under threat of an Indian uprising.
Now, what are the details of this uprising, Alessandro?
I had to come to tell you Ulrich knows about the uprising.
We know of no uprising.
We have every reason to believe That the other clans will join them In a full scale uprising.
The innocent suffered with the guilty and the chicken's uprising was short lived.
One man can't handle an uprising.
My mother and father were killed in the Apache uprising of '39.
The Warsaw Uprising is nearing its tragic finale.
Damn, I can't believe it's the 56th day of the Uprising.
A scant minority of my kind are planning an uprising. I believe they seek to shatter the existing order and create a new world.
He who was the first to call for an uprising, fell at the hands of a butcher.
Odessa followed the progress of the uprising.
The uprising is premature!
A spontaneous uprising is doomed to failure!
On October 10 the BoIshevist central Committee was deciding the question of armed uprising.
The Party organized the uprising staff.
You have no business here. We know of no uprising.
Any statement on the red uprising tomorrow?
What red uprising?
There'll be no red uprising.
Yes, sir. indian uprising right here.
I could have already agreed, except by written confirmation that want. Commander of the uprising.
The teacher has been through terrible during the Uprising.
So you were there for the uprising.
I wrote you that the last time he was in this apartment was in October, right after the uprising.
No. She died in the uprising.
I spent too much time in the sewers during the uprising.
How about during the uprising?
What did you do during the uprising?
It burnt during the uprising. - The two witnesses?
I thought we were invited to a picnic, not an uprising of nutty wives, with war paint, which I am not interested in attending.

News and current affairs

As the uprising against the Ceausescu regime broke out in December 1989 in Timisoara, Stanculescu (together with General Chitac) was dispatched to the city and ordered to suppress all demonstrations by any available means.
In the Palestinian territories, the jil al-intifada, the generation of the (first and second) Palestinian uprising, will likely become the founding generation.
These are countries where it sometimes seems easier to start an uprising than to start a business.
The FLN (National Liberation Front) uprising against French rule in Algeria started in 1954 with assassinations of policemen.
Here, at long last, was Poland's long-awaited popular uprising, revenge for December 1980, when Jaruzelski declared martial law, banned Solidarity, and threw its leaders in jail.
The end of the battery cage in Europe is a less dramatic development than the Arab Spring, but, like that popular uprising, it began with a small group of thoughtful and committed people.
This is the most important step yet taken by the fragmented forces that have been trying since May to lead a peaceful uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
What he doesn't understand is that the memory of Auschwitz is also the memory of the Battle of Britain, the bombing of Dresden, the occupation of Paris, and the Warsaw uprising.
But, from the start of the uprising in February 2011, Libya has been politically atomized.
It lacks the sort of civil society that could have led the uprising and planted the seeds for post-authoritarian politics, as was the case in Tunisia and (more problematically) Egypt.
Russian reactions to the Ukrainian uprising, meanwhile, have shown how vivid the memory of World War II remains in Moscow.
An uprising in Poland and the far more tumultuous Hungarian Revolution argued for the opposite.
The statement summarizes the Libyan regime's extremely repressive response to the popular uprising against Qaddafi's 42-year dictatorship.
Forget, or try to forget, the quarter-million deaths for which Bashar al-Assad is responsible, directly or indirectly, since choosing to respond with violence to a peaceful uprising of the Syrian people.
Indeed, secular dictators have worked to suppress the Brothers at every turn - often violently, as when Assad ruthlessly crushed a Brotherhood-led uprising in Hama in 1982.
The greatest danger is that the Jasmine Revolution could go the way of Romania's anti-communist uprising of 20 years ago, with the old regime's underlings expelling their bosses in order to stay in power.
Although the most popular politician of the uprising against Milosevic was Vojislav Kostunica, who replaced him as president, it was Djindjic who skillfully coordinated the volatile coalition that opposed the regime.
It is therefore safe to assume that not only obscure academics and correspondents, but officials in Beijing as well, are now busy studying the history of the Ghulja uprising and of Osman Batur's guerillas.
NEW YORK - China has survived the 50th anniversary of the failed uprising by Tibetans against Chinese rule in 1959 without major protests.
CHENGDU - Last month saw the 50th anniversary of what Tibetan activists like to call Tibetan National Uprising Day, the day in 1959 when Tibetans in Lhasa revolted against Chinese Communist Party rule.
The uprising in Tibet, and the government's response, have highlighted ethnic tensions within China that the Chinese government is having difficulty managing.
Two years later, after de Gaulle's steeliness repulsed a second uprising, the Evian peace agreements between France and the FLN brought Algeria's independence.
For the West, the timing of the Syrian rebels' uprising could not have been worse.
But, with the 1987 uprising (Intifada), Yasin's supporters announced the creation of the Islamic Resistance Movement.
Fatah, which runs the West Bank, wants no part of another Palestinian uprising.
For example, in 1936-1939, a Palestinian uprising against British rule deteriorated into a bloody civil war, in which more Palestinians were killed by their brethren than by the British army or the Jewish self-defense forces.
That crisis is located in Mexico, which is in freefall, its state institutions under threat as they have not been since at least the Cristero Uprising of the late 1920's and possibly since the Mexican Revolution of 1910.

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