armed revolution

collocation in English

meaningsofarmedandrevolution

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armed
adjective
uk
/ɑːmd/us
/ɑːrmd/
using or ...
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revolution
noun
uk
/ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən/us
/ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən/
a change in the way a country is governed, usually to a different political system and often using violence ...
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(Definition ofarmedandrevolutionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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He may demand its overthrow byarmedrevolution.
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Yet other ends are so sharply divergent that a decisive step in the direction of one is a move away from the other : strict nonviolence, and participation inarmedrevolution.
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He will also find little or no support for the mujaheddin orarmedrevolution.
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Oh, yes certainly, a conciliatory policy, but that should not include running away from, or lying down under, the threat ofarmedrevolutionand violence.
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I do not think that we should have anarmedrevolution.
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They occurred even in countries in which the colonial tie was shattered byarmedrevolutionand where the foreign administrators and their crassly contrasting lifestyle were forcibly overcome.
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Koirala, however, was arrested immediately upon his return from exile in 1976 and charged with the capital offense of attemptingarmedrevolution.
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However, it soon abandoned the strategy ofarmedrevolutionin favour of working within the parliamentary framework.
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The critics argued that there couldn't be anarmedrevolutionwithout a people's uprising.
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The party remains an underground group, and has a programme ofarmedrevolution.
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Revolutions can be nonviolent or an organized andarmedrevolutionwhich denotes a state of war.
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As the meeting wore on, the movement developed a more aggressive approach and increasingly delegates called for anarmedrevolution.
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Bengal's communism was unique in that it grew among the people not througharmedrevolution.
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The organization supports anarmedrevolution.
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Instead, the safest course of action for the people was to endure tyranny for as long as it could be borne, rather than run the larger risks ofarmedrevolution.
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From 1907 to 1910, he participated in several armed revolutions.
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