armed rebellion
collocation in Englishmeaningsofarmedandrebellion
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armed
adjective
uk/ɑːmd/us/ɑːrmd/
using or ...
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rebellion
noun[C or U]
uk/rɪˈbel.i.ən/us/rɪˈbel.i.ən/
violent action organized by a group of people who are trying to change the political system in ...
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(Definition ofarmedandrebellionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The failure of ralliement among the local elites represents a more fundamental failure of acculturation for the imperial regime than evenarmedrebellion.
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In these circumstances, it is claimed,armedrebellionbecame a necessity.
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Having obliterated the threat ofarmedrebellionand violent interregnal strife, colonial rule made it unnecessary to continue to exclude potential heirs to the throne from positions of territorial responsibility.
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First, the food shortages during the years of thearmedrebellion(1911-1917) and the subsequent uprisings had a toll on the nutrition and health of children and young people.
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What did he mean in that connection by his reference toarmedrebellion?
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A legitimately-elected, constitutional government, engaged in putting down anarmedrebellionwithin its own borders, has no need of belligerent rights.
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Did he meanarmedrebellionby the strikers?
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Their complicity in thearmedrebellionwas notorious.
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Martial law was proclaimed for the suppression of anarmedrebellion, and since that object was effected its powers have not been in use.
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I need not speak of the outbreak of thearmedrebellionof 1936.
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None of them had taken part in thearmedrebellion.
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My information is that there was a real danger ofarmedrebellion.
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Armedrebellionmay be said to do so.
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It is also true that in both those wars there were sizable revolutionary, rebellious elements—in fact, there wasarmedrebellionin both cases.
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That and the relaxation of tension that will follow the end ofarmedrebellionseem to me to be the only prospects of a satisfactory settlement.
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The danger to-day is not from anyarmedrebellion, but it is the holding up of one of the utility services of the community by a few people.
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After months of military sieges, the protests evolved into anarmedrebellion.
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In some countries, struggles for civil rights were accompanied, or followed, by civil unrest and evenarmedrebellion.
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