Events in eastern Europe: 1989

Usage examples of uprisings.

They have mercilessly slain our patriots, they have drowned uprisings in rivers of blood.

And so the draft riots of 1863 took place, uprisings of angry whites in northern cities, their targets not the rich, far away, but the blacks, near at hand.

In December 1998, Desert Fox struck at this target set and Saddam became so concerned that he overreacted, ordering emergency security measures that set off small uprisings throughout Iraq.

Even in the provinces the system of recruiting caused some serious uprisings at about that time.

It replaced the unhappy Ninth Legion, cut to pieces by the Caledonians during the uprisings which made the grim aftermath, in Britain, of our Parthian expedition.

Apis provokes more uprisings in that city than an imperial succession in Rome.

After I finish with the remnants of the Spartacani, there will be no more slave uprisings in our Roman world.

Sometimes there were spontaneous, unorganized uprisings against the rich.

He said this just after, in the midst of, and just before the most intense series of prison uprisings the country had ever seen.