What is "revolts"

Usage examples of "revolts".

We have failed because protecting himself against assassins, coups, and popular revolts is the one thing Saddam is good at.

This assumption seemed confirmed when revolts broke out in southern Iraq on March 2, followed two days later by a mass rising of the Kurds of northern Iraq.

Within just a few days, similar revolts had erupted in two dozen other towns in southern Iraq, including the cities of an-Nasiriyah, as-Samawah, Karbala, an-Najaf, al-Amarah, al-Hillah, and ad-Diwaniyyah.

Even in the cities where the revolts were most popular, such as an-Najaf and Karbala, fewer than about 10,000 took up arms.

However, what was so interesting about those revolts was not how large they were but how relatively small.

We tried a far more punishing air campaign against Iraq in 1991, yet the tattered army that emerged from Operation Desert Storm was still able to crash the two largest opposition revolts in Iraqi history in just a few weeks.

American Negro Slave Revolts, found about 250 instances where a minimum often slaves joined in a revolt or conspiracy.

San Quentin prison in California, which housed four thousand prisoners, there was a series of revolts in the late sixties: a race riot in 1967, a united black-white general strike in early 1968 that shut down almost all the prison industries, and then a second strike that summer.

Trouble awaited him there on every hand, and during the next two years he had to meet no less than thirteen revolts or wars.

Their continual revolts, their impatience of law and civilized life, their inconstancy and cruelty, demanded on the part of the government a constant watchfulness to reduce them to obedience.

The little Hyakowa knew about Kingdom made him wonder why the Confederation assisted its government in putting down the frequent peasant revolts instead of aiding the rebels.