Insurrections
[,ɪnsə'rekʃənz]
Examples
- The king's method of suppressing insurrections. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Bloody insurrections repeatedly broke out, always traceable ultimately to the pressure of taxation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There were plots, there were insurrections; they lie flat and colourless now in the histories like dead flowers in an old book. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Ultimately all these insurrections failed; the current system staggered, but kept its feet. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They know that the responsibility for insurrections rests in the last analysis upon the unimaginative greed and endless stupidity of the dominant classes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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