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To resist or become defiant toward an authority.

Then the people rebelled and the king was slain.

And yet, like an unruly child, she had rebelled, causing him endless worry and stress.

The elder son rebelled against the father and became the evil spirit.

After the sultans return they soon rebelled, but were again brought into subjection by Sheiks son Ibrahim; his victories excited the envy of his father, who is said to have poisoned him.

In 132 the Jews of Palestine rebelled again.

Like many others who have been similarly abused, she rebelled.

Woman rebelled by wearing no jewelry at all, or buying from the emerging artist craftsman.

This group rebelled against the war, promoted peace, love, and made a huge fashion statement.

Andronicus rebelled; he had a powerful party, and the first period of civil war ended in his being crowned and accepted as colleague by his grandfather, 1325.

Close to the town, on the site of Elderslie House, Somerled, lord of the Isles, was defeated and slain in 1164 by the forces of Malcolm IV., against whom he had rebelled.

Last year ethnic minority officers rebelled against the Met, urging a boycott of recruitment campaigns.

Sarah had lied and rebelled, but she was fun; life had never seemed dreary with her in the house.

The opportunist wing of the old LSSP rebelled, leading to a de facto split.

In 920 the barons, jealous of the growth of the royal authority and discontented with the favour shown by the king to his counsellor Hagano, rebelled, and in 922 elected Robert, brother of King Odo, in place of Charles.

In these Flemish cities the early oligarchic form of municipal government speedily gave way to a democratic. The great mass of the townsmen organized in trade gilds - weavers, fullers, dyers, smiths, leather-workers, brewers, butchers, bakers and others, of which by far the most powerful was that of the weavers - as soon as they became conscious of their strength rebelled against the exclusive privileges of the patricians and succeeded in ousting them from power.

In 1857 two zemindars, Umar Singh and Kumar Singh, rebelled against the British government, and for some months held the ruinous fort of Rohtas against the British.

As a stroppy, anarchic young woman I rebelled against the whole nuclear family with 2.4 children thing.

Her corset was called the "grand corps," and she was forced to wear it until she rebelled and started wearing slim white dresses that didn't require a corset.

The humans of Earth rebelled against the Goa'uld and buried the Stargate in prehistoric times.

The In-Vitros, or IVs, were created to take the place of the AIs, or silicates, androids who had rebelled against their human masters and live in hiding, continuing their harrassing campaign against their hated creators.

He chooses the red pill and discovers a bleak and barren earth controlled entirely by the machines that rebelled and enslaved humanity.

In contrast, Sam rebelled against his father's plans, abandoning the family at the age of 18 to enter college.

The logical side of her mind had accepted the fact that he couldn't give her a child, but the emotional side still rebelled.

They appear to have had a foedus with Rome, but subsequently rebelled.

When, in 553, Cyrus, king of Anshan, rebelled against Astyages, the Maraphians and Maspians joined with the Pasargadae; after his victory over Astyages all the Persian tribes acknowledged him, and he took the title of "king of Persia."

When in 221 Molon, the satrap of Media, rebelled against Antiochus III., his brother Alexander, satrap of Persis, joined him, but they were defeated and killed by the king.

At the same time the burghers of Graaff Reinet also rebelled against the Cape authorities, who were powerless to suppress the insurrectionary movement.

It was against the Mahommedan king of Bijapur in the Deccan that Sivaji, the hero of Mahratta history, first rebelled in 1657.

Its culminating point was reached about 1750, or about a century after Sivaji first rebelled against his Mahommedan sovereign.

He rebelled at hearing the system under which they flourished described as the perfection of human reason.

Derby, however, was always royalist in sympathy, and did not finally surrender till 1646; in 1659 it rebelled against Richard Cromwell, and in 1745 entertained the young Pretender.

His nobles, whom he tried to cow by sporadic acts of violence, rebelled against him.

He rebelled against his brother Homizd III., and in 459 defeated and killed him with the help of the Ephthalites, or White Huns, who had invaded Bactria.

Prompt action by Sir Benjamin Pine, then lieutenant-governor of the colony, together with help from the Cape and Basutoland, prevented the success of Langalibalele's plan, and his own tribe, numbering some io,000 persons, was the only one which rebelled.

The inhabitants frequently rebelled and were as often subdued; records of these repeated conquests were set up by the Egyptian kings in the shape of steles and temples; of the latter the temple of Amenhotep (Amenophis) III.

When one of his sons had rebelled about 550 and was taken prisoner, he did not execute him; nor did he punish the Christians who had supported him.

He was raised to the throne by the magnates who had rebelled against Hormizd IV.

After the murder of Othman, `Ali (656-661) became caliph, but Moawiya, governor of Syria, soon rebelled on the pretext of avenging the death of Othman.

It rebelled at the authority of the counter at Bruges, and at the time of the war with England (1469-1474) openly defied the League.

With respect to his attacks on the critical philosophy in the Metakritik (1799), it is easy to understand how his concrete mind, ever alive to the unity of things, instinctively rebelled against that analytic separation of the mental processes which Kant attempted.

Quickly attaining a prominent position among the Frankish nobles, he appears as rector of the abbey of Marmoutier in 852, and as one of Charles the Bald's missi dominici, in 853; but soon afterwards he was among those who rebelled against Charles, and invited the king's halfbrother, Louis the German, to invade West Francia.

Then the king attempted to subjugate Egypt, but two expeditions were unsuccessful, and, in consequence, Sidon and the other Phoenician towns, and the princes of Cyprus, rebelled against Persia and defeated the Persian generals.

Grimoald of Benevento rebelled against his overlord; the possession of Venice and Dalmatia was disputed by the two empires; and Istria was brought into subjection.

Nine years later the raja rebelled, but although with the help of the Bahmani kings of the Deccan he managed for a time to assert his independence, he was finally subdued and deprived of his territories.

Franklin early rebelled against New England Puritanism and spent his Sundays in reading and in study instead of attending church.

South-western Arabia, where the Imam Iahya of the Iernen and the Idrisi of Asir rebelled at the end of 1910, was another region marked down for "Turkification."

In the Social War it rebelled from Rome, and its territory was added to that of Capua by Sulla.

Soon after the schism of 1856 those who had rebelled against Cabet began to prepare a permanent home in Adams county, Iowa.

It rebelled, but was retaken and pillaged in 1472.

In 1604, after a war with Turkey had been in progress since 1593, many of the Hungarians rebelled against Rudolph and chose Stephen Bocskay as their prince.