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    1. "Everyone present in a society is part of that society and by their presence and participation without open revolt, implicitly support the rulers of that society


    2. , there was a revolt in the city Sepphoris


    3. So, around the time that Jesus was a teenager, there was a revolt in the city on a hill, and the city was burned to the ground 3


    4. The same general that burned Sepphoris to the ground for their revolt also totally destroyed a town called Emmaus


    5. 1843, a revolt of the army, supported


    6. From this point of view, the revolt of masses is


    7. Before the revolt of our North American colonies, we had the monopoly of the tobacco of Maryland and Virginia


    8. One after the other of the mining installations began going kablooey! It appeared that a full scale worker's revolt was underway and our ship showed up as the curtain went up on the first act


    9. The period between the granting of this indulgence and the revolt of our North American colonies, was probably too short to admit of any considerable change in the customs of those countries


    10. “Is that how they keep down revolt then?” the Elf quizzed as she pulled on the new costume

    11. It could lead to a revolt of Alit’aren, which would surely be an Age of Chaos


    12. Revolution would be quick in such a land if the peasants were to revolt


    13. revolt and a city of beauty, had changed in a moment


    14. The four armies were to travel together in the beginning and then separate when they neared the borders of the closest revolt


    15. They all wanted to share in the revolt against the evil and wrong doings that had beset their land


    16. a revolt that ended only with his death upon the scaffold, outside this


    17. Modern Society is in the throes of a revolutionary Revolt of Conscience; the solitary by-product of moral and intellectual parochialism that is gradually revealing itself in the vested self-interest(s) and manners of unbridled Individualism that has undermined equalitarian idealism, that once defined the national culture, by rendering every individual the sole arbiter of his or her own conscience and ensuing choices without giving proper pause to how such choices may otherwise impact, for better or for worse, other individuals or to a transcendent authority that each must (inevitably) be held accountable; that is to say, whose (social) consequences existing outside the provincial boundaries of that individual‘s (own) estate are no longer limited by (moral) restraint or prescribed rules of moral and ethical conduct but conditioned rather by circumventing designs contrary to the proportionate interests of a well-ordered society


    18. What: The Haitian Revolution against slavery and French rule and later British and Spanish invasions, the most successful though costly slave revolt in history


    19. As Virginia Governor, he called out the militia to crush Gabriel's slave revolt


    20. Despair is not a revolt against God, per se, but rather a healing process that attempts to reconcile an awakening Conscience with a trust in God‘s Mercy

    21. My brother fell in the great revolt, fighting as a Pole to the last moment and died as a Pole not as a Jew


    22. The best case scenario is that there would only be a revolt in South Carolina, likely over in months, perhaps even weeks, with a death toll perhaps as low as in the hundreds


    23. The uprising began, and the USS Tennessee blocked Colombian troops from crushing the revolt since the only route to Panama was by sea


    24. A final slave revolt at last forced Spain to abolish slavery


    25. When Afro-Cubans tried a revolt again in 1912, this time Cuban elites went even further in crushing it


    26. A revolt by Cuban army sergeants in 1933 brought Fulgencio Batista to power


    27. When Batista overturned the results of an election, a newly elected senator, Fidel Castro, led a revolt


    28. That genocide led to the most successful slave revolt in history


    29. ) The French slave owners' attempt to crush that revolt led to a second genocide, killing 170,000 more Haitians


    30. Many mixed blood leaders were prominent among the slave revolt

    31. Not only that, some French colonists and soldiers chose to side with the Haitian revolt


    32. In Kenya in the 1950s, a rebel group called the Mau Mau tried a revolt calling for killing all European occupiers and local collaborators


    33. Left out from the claims of “white genocide” is, first, that it was a revolt against the conquerors, not a race, and second, the fact that it failed utterly


    34. Then again in AD 135 the Bar Hochva revolt caught the Romans by such a surprise that these “rebels” gained their freedom for a short while


    35. Less than ten years after the revolt of AD 66–70, a sudden catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79 destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, Roman resort cities, smothering them under more than a six-foot blanket of volcanic ash, deposited by a superheated pyroclastic flow from the mountain


    36. Their Temple was finally and utterly destroyed in their revolt of AD 66–70 and their worldly state in AD 132–35, but the end of the old made way for the new, it might be said


    37. “These men, many of them early converts and relatives of the prophet, formed a nucleus of a revolt, which ended with Othman’s assassination by Muhammad, a son of the first caliph, abu-Bakr


    38. “If we wake the Dauntless up, they will probably revolt when they realize what’s going on,” I explain


    39. Marx stated that Capitalists were responsible for all evil, and from the revolt (rising) of the proletariat would come redemption


    40. How had whole countries fallen for the failed notion that the workers of the world would rise (revolt)? How—along the continuum of reality and its distortion, of truth-based knowledge and propaganda, of wisdom and foolhardiness—

    41. In revolt, his hand clamped her shoulder, hard


    42. “Zeke and his mother joined up with the revolt,” I say


    43. The same time also did Libnah revolt from under his hand; because he had


    44. This led to a serf (helot) revolt, which required years to overcome


    45. “I can start a revolt among the slaves


    46. commander the risks and benefits of military actions (and inactions) for seven hard years, he knew a pan-Indian revolt could cost the new nation a prohibitive $15 million / year


    47. In 1836 he was promoted to commandant general of the “Free State of Alta California” after a revolt against California’s governor


    48. Before the 1896 revolt U


    49. Your Khan is a weak ruler; he invites revolt


    50. There is no rational impetus to revolt














































    1. 6Return, you Israelites, to the One you have so greatly revolted against


    2. From the end of the first to the beginning of the second Carthaginian war, the armies of Carthage were continually in the field, and employed under three great generals, who succeeded one another in the command; Amilcar, his son-in-law Asdrubal, and his son Annibal: first in chastising their own rebellious slaves, afterwards in subduing the revolted nations of Africa; and lastly, in conquering the great kingdom of Spain


    3. The Duke of Whitten Hold has been arrested by his own army after the peasants revolted and the soldiers submitted to their strength of arms


    4. He could really imagine that day, when the peasants revolted


    5. The idea of worshipping somebody who killed others revolted and frightened me


    6. Roosevelt then told rebels in Panama he would help them if they revolted


    7. Still, Afro-Cubans again revolted and drove out Spanish authorities from two thirds of the island


    8. 22 Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day; Then Libnah revolted at the same time


    9. 8 In his days the Edomites revolted from


    10. revolted from under the hand of Judah to this day

    11. 6 Turn you to him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted


    12. Why have the people not revolted and done away with her?”


    13. Eventually they revolted, and, since they far outnumbered us, they prevailed


    14. Poseidon, suddenly being revolted by the words of his brother: All we have is a prophecy, we have no real evidence


    15. 5 Now all the tribes which together revolted, and the house of my father


    16. In Itailia, the Napoles barons supported by the Aitasantu had revolted against their King Ferdinando in 1485, but with the support of the city of Firenze he defeated them by 1486


    17. out into all the coasts of Judea round about, and took vengeance of them that had revolted from him, so that they durst no more go out


    18. a very great famine, by reason of which the country revolted, and went with them


    19. had revolted from him


    20. Jews wrote to you in the extremity of trouble that came on us in those years, from the time that Jason and his company revolted from

    21. Now when this that was done came to the king's car, he thought that Judea had revolted: upon which removing out of Egypt in a


    22. “That is impossible” Ishvara stated revolted, as if I had blown his male ego into smithereens


    23. 30 He then heard that Edom had revolted from under the hand of Chittim, and Latinus went to them and struck them and subdued them, and placed them under the hand of the children of Chittim, and Edom became one kingdom with the children of Chittim all the days


    24. David, even though he had already been anointed king of Israel, at no time revolted against Saul, the incumbent king


    25. ” To make matters even worse, Catholics in Ireland revolted against their non-Catholic overlords


    26. Slumping down to the grassy floor Amori groaned with the action as her sore leg muscles revolted against the movement


    27. 30 He then heard that Edom had revolted from under the hand of Chittim and Latinus went to them and struck them and subdued them and placed them under the hand of the children of Chittim and Edom became one kingdom with the children of Chittim all the days


    28. 5 Now all the tribes which together revolted and the house of my father Nephthali sacrificed to the heifer Baal


    29. 23 Now when Judas saw all the mischief that Alcimus and his company had done among the Israelites even above the heathen 24 He went out into all the coasts of Judea round about and took vengeance of them that had revolted from him so that they durst no more go out into the country


    30. 24 In those days there also was a very great famine by reason of which the country revolted and went with them

    31. 14 In the mean season was king Alexander in Cilicia because those who dwelt in those parts had revolted from him


    32. 7 What time as Demetrius reigned in the hundred threescore and ninth year we the Jews wrote to you in the extremity of trouble that came on us in those years from the time that Jason and his company revolted from the holy land and kingdom 8 And burned the porch and shed innocent blood; then we prayed to the Lord and were heard; we offered also sacrifices and fine flour and lighted the lamps and set out the loaves


    33. 11 Now when this that was done came to the king's car he thought that Judea had revolted: upon which removing out of Egypt in a furious mind he took the city by force of arms 12 And commanded his men of war not to spare such as they met and to kill such as went up on the houses


    34. Then for the first time my senses revolted against me as the dud lingered on and refused to budge even after two hours of soaking in the surrounding scenery by me


    35. This morning, after a day spent with Seb and his friends, his entire being was revolted


    36. He wondered if, after years of railing against iniquity, his mind had at last revolted and was vomiting back every loathsome thing it had been forced to think about over the years


    37. “Shrink me,” he said trying to stand but failing as his weakened muscles revolted


    38. He cursed himself for his refusal of their offer, even while his stubborn manhood revolted at the thought, and he knew that were he taken forth and given another chance, his reply would be the same


    39. Argos, Zingara, Ophir, Zamora and the Shemite countries were treated as subjugated provinces, which was especially galling to the proud Zingarans, who often revolted, despite savage retaliations


    40. Angered and revolted, she had swatted it as if trying to kill a fly, and all the time screaming: "It's filth! It's filth!" That embarrassing and terribly humiliating incident, the subsequent hostile relationship between Komadze and his mother, had left him with an overwhelming desire to sexually humiliate women

    41. Davidson’s game, but it still revolted him


    42. Antiochus desecrated the temple in Jerusalem and then killed tens of thousands of Jews when they revolted


    43. When they revolted violently, Luther wrote that any of the rebelling peasants should be killed immediately because their violence had earned them damnation


    44. Proctor said that liberal church leaders associated with that seminary were more enlightened than the many black pastors who revolted him as “given to gaudy dress, unbridled egotism, and self-aggrandizement; they exploited women willing to do anything to be close to the ‘pastor


    45. Tetrarch Archelaus was deposed by the Romans on April 11 of Year 6 and the Jews of Jerusalem them revolted


    46. Following that train of thought I have a feeling when I remember last night's events, or have them recounted for me, I will be revolted


    47. Janet had to close her eyes, revolted by the thought of seeing three innocent children being possibly abused and killed


    48. Following the First Punic War, Carthage and Rome agreed to maintain separate spheres of influence in Spain; but after the Spanish city of Saguntum allied with Rome and revolted against Carthage, the invasion of Saguntum by Carthage prompted Rome to again declare war on Carthage


    49. the burden of heavy taxation and interference in their religious affairs, the Jews occasionally revolted against their Roman overlords


    50. Sicilian slaves revolted in 104 and 103 BC, this time under the leadership of Athenion and Tryphon












































    1. I know it sounds revolting but, added to soups, stews, salads or vegetables just before serving you would hardly know it was there! However, your system will know it is there and react “n a very favourable way


    2. Salamander coolly looked at the revolting little


    3. Revolting against the system was an idea that wasn’t hard to talk us inmates


    4. revolting, but it denotes a society inversely settled


    5. She no longer found Tragus so revolting that she needed to put herself into a trance and think of Tenes


    6. My god what’s that damn awful smell it’s revolting?” Elijah smelled at his armpits then at Jonny and me before he replied


    7. “No not you lot it is something else it smells over ripe cloying and sticky a revolting terrible stench like rotten meat


    8. “Anyway he hurt me Billy Boy and while he was making me do these revolting things he kept saying this is for that bastard William Lamb tell him how easy you are and to try you now I’ve broke you in


    9. It was revolting


    10. What could he say? It felt revolting? Terrifying? Lonely? None of these answers would have done it justice

    11. Crying, shivering, and convulsing with the revolting though that HIS cum was a living thing within her vagina, she sat under the spray and forced handfuls of cupped hot water up into the recesses of her body


    12. At first it was a somewhat revolting thought


    13. Once you have bitten into it you get this strong bitter taste that is quite revolting


    14. revolting things on the reality shows


    15. Vile I tell you, absolutely revolting and disgusting…but nonetheless suitable for an abominable pagan barbaric practice like this!


    16. not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it? 23 But these people have a revolting and rebellious heart; they have


    17. The Ezkozia nobles were always revolting, it seemed, and since they were divided into factions over which noble had the most valid claim to be king


    18. What did he mean by the Holy Land? How was it was that Kristau cities of Italia were fighting the head of the Kristau religion? Had they become pagan or Musulmen? Who are these “nobles” that were revolting against the kings? Do the kings share power with them somehow? I explained that the only revolt we ever experienced in the Khakhanate had been by a disgruntled tribe


    19. The laughing and playful giggling in Adrinius’ ear as he mentally selected the neck of his choice, the blood he’d devour, the restraint he must have found so difficult to impose till he was alone with his prey all proved too revolting for me


    20. struggle between capitalists and workers (the proletariat), with the latter getting poorer and poorer which would result in the workers revolting

    21. horrendous and disgusting and revolting


    22. Family restaurants can sell the most revolting food in the


    23. She laughed when the horse turned his head to sniff at her leg, wrinkling his nose at the unfamiliar, and to him revolting, smell of mothballs


    24. The cobwebs were revolting but she tried to ignore them and could only wipe them away from her face as best she could


    25. It was revolting to see how she was an object in his hands”


    26. Michael gave her a revolting glance from the corner of his eye


    27. There now, what is it?" She attempted to tickle me under the chin while dribbling revolting baby noises through lipstick-smudged lips


    28. Dildos and other aids to female orgasm she heartily approved of, but condoms? Surely such revolting reminders of erect penises should have been tossed out with Jarek? This needed further investigation!


    29. Once he sank his teeth, beast-like, into the flabby substance of his foe, revolting as the stuff writhed and squirmed like living rubber from between his iron jaws


    30. She has destroyed the ivory image of the goddess which these eastern Hyborians worship (and which, inferior as it is to the true religion of Mitra which we Western nations recognize, is still superior to the devil-worship of the Shemites) and filled the temple of Ishtar with obscene images of every imaginable sort—gods and goddesses of the night, portrayed in all the salacious and perverse poses and with all the revolting characteristics that a degenerate brain could conceive

    31. Quivering with the abhorrence of being dragged back to the revolting destiny planned for her by Jelal Khan, she plunged into the morass, seeking a hiding-place from the pursuit she expected


    32. And it is one of the grim ironies of the universe that the stones which covered Arus's body should have been adorned with that last touch of barbarity—above a man to whom violence and blood-vengeance were revolting


    33. Revolting habit, thought Komadze


    34. For a few seconds they didn’t realize that I was there watching them all over one another, doing things that I thought men would find revolting


    35. The taste is revolting


    36. He had learned about that revolting concept called slavery that was supposedly common in the dark ages of humanity, but living it was a lot worse than simply reading about it


    37. “What a revolting invasion of privacy


    38. The revolting pong reminded him of an incident when, as a child, he found a dead badger in the woods


    39. Star’s eyes were closed tightly and she had emotionally shut down - what had happened was too revolting for her to deal with


    40. You would think that there was an underground lab somewhere breeding these revolting creatures

    41. revolting, most of the slaves died on the battlefield; while those that were captured should have fought to the death, because Crassus crucified the survivors and left their bodies hanging along the road from Cupua to Rome to serve as a grisly reminder of the penalty for seeking justice


    42. Fear, mostly, that his subjects were revolting


    43. And not just revolting in the smelly sense, but revolting in the sense that they were plotting to relieve Brumvack of his position and his power


    44. She didn't think he would do such a thing, especially since he was more interested in the prisoners, but the idea was still revolting


    45. He grimaced as the hungry mouths drew his strong, ancient blood into their revolting


    46. Ailia’s chest started revolting as she thought about the water and her most recent near-drowning experience


    47. There was a powerful stench that came from inside the crates; though it was mildly revolting, he thought it might help to hide his own scent


    48. There was a revolting odor that lingered in the darkness


    49. I surmised that he probably realized why I had found him so revolting previously, even if it was based on- supposedly- false reasons, and he was giving me time and space to adjust my thinking


    50. A great carnage was removed by what Al’lah the Almighty had inspired of the imposing plan to his true obedient, that commando revolting man who was ever ready to suppress the untruth and support the truth, his nation and his beloved homeland










































    1. Again, Chrissie tenses as her stomach revolts to the sound of his voice, her knuckles white, gripping on the sheet of the bed in which she is lying, she fights for control


    2. the contrary! Just because of his faith, he revolts


    3. When things went sour, Eleanor separated from him and actively led revolts against him


    4. Still, revolts broke out in several missions


    5. The fading Spanish empire hoped to prevent further revolts on the island


    6. There were also several minor revolts in California, somewhat like Texas, insurgencies by foreign invaders from the US


    7. None of the revolts lasted even a month, and some involved only a few dozen rebels


    8. Uprisings, little revolts, small riots


    9. We don’t have to worry about general revolts, they will come


    10. “The leader of the patriots said that Khan Henry was weak and that the Khanate would be torn apart with revolts

    11. “I suppose that is possible, but I would think the other Khanates would be too busy fighting revolts of their own to help put down a revolt in Anahuac


    12. The gang were arrested in less than 36 hours, in a prisoner revolts abortion, as one of the leader, 8412 prisoners morning started crying


    13. He next wondered if there were never any revolts or civil wars among the Mongols


    14. The student revolts of the sixties struck a spark into tinder that was, in the mood of a substantial minority at that time, waiting for the fire of revolution


    15. But the aristocrats there are picky about weapons being made, after the revolts and all


    16. Outlying Nemedian garrisons were stormed and put to the sword, foraging parties were cut to pieces; the west was up in arms, and there was a different air about the rising, a fierce resolution and inspired wrath rather than the frantic despair that had motivated the preceding revolts


    17. Amalric and Valerius moved out from Tarantia with twenty-five thousand men, leaving as large a garrison as they dared to discourage revolts in the cities during their absence


    18. Archive photographs showed starving peasants, worker demonstrations, armed revolts, assassinations, cavalry charges into crowds of defenceless men, women and children, mass executions, and trains loaded with white-faced hungry people being transported to exile in the remote regions of Siberia


    19. The Roman answer to popular revolts was always brutal and merciless


    20. In all, there were a total of seventy screens showing historical scenes up to the last Jewish revolts against the Romans in the second century C

    21. ‘We witness riots, strikes, demonstrations, rural revolts


    22. In Egypt there followed serious revolts in the urban and rural areas in 1919-20, which resulted in the British surrender of the protectorate over Egypt


    23. These crises in Greater Syria coincided with revolts in Iraq in 1920


    24. Ignorance and Karma come from our unconditioned surrender to the intellect; Zen revolts against this state of affairs


    25. But, empire is a fragile balance, and Darius had to suppress numerous revolts throughout his domain


    26. And similar revolts resulted from the conversion from the traditional Roman Pantheon to Christianity


    27. Stalin used the Red Army and secret police forces to crush dissatisfaction and revolts in


    28. The democracy and freedoms he introduced were a total reversal of the old communism that crushed numerous independence movements and revolts with the force of


    29. Those famines caused in turn a number of peasant revolts that rose in response to the lack of care from Emperor Yizong’s government and to the crushing taxes he was imposing on his subjects to sustain his own, luxurious lifestyle


    30. Unfortunately, our historical files don’t give precise years for those famines and revolts

    31. As for describing those people with the word (Ya'jooj & Ma'jooj), it is for they inflame the disturbance between the prosperous and needy classes, and set ablaze the revolts within the one nation or amongst the nations


    32. In those revolts the cause is more correctly described as demands for better living conditions, than any desire for democracy


    33. This has resulted in a whole slew of destabilizing forces, destabilized governments, wars, insurrections, revolutions, failed revolutions, palace revolts, etc


    34. Why are they called: revolts? Because when a mass becomes so disgusted that they are openly revolted by some injustice


    35. But the upper classes have poisoned, and twisted, and deleted the actual truth about all of the lower class movements and revolts and rebellions that have sprung up spontaneously all over the Earth for thousands of years… ever since the filth system of pyramidal civilization was ever invented


    36. For 12,000 years, all the people who wanted a change… all the revolutionaries, the revolts, and uprisings: were stupid enough to try to defeat a pyramidal hierarchical oppression, by replacing it with another pyramidal hierarchical system


    37. It is the same repeated, stupid vicious cycle with social revolts


    38. Why? Because all of these revolts and uprisings and rebellions were successfully, and brutally crushed


    39. Even to the point of lining its most traveled tourist road with literally thousands of crucified, dying slaves from one of their many, onerous, boring, repetitive, slave revolts… I mean; how important is the butchery of a thirty thousand slaves; to the mighty Roman Empire, that vanquished entire foreign nations and armies? Roman slave revolts are almost never mentioned in modern history books


    40. Just as all the peasant revolts and uprisings are never mentioned in history

    41. All revolts against the present status quo and all revolts that ever happened against what the present status quo stands for: are carefully deleted from all history books


    42. The slave revolts lessened


    43. “It revolts me too,” Furl said, sensitive to Caldon


    44. revolts, there should be no literal names in this document, whatsoever


    45. effort to quickly hide texts during the revolts


    46. the birth of Christianity and Judaism, and the so-called Jewish wars which were the ill-fated revolts


    47. Soldiers of revolts, standers by gaping graves, lowerers-down of coffins, Journeyers over consecutive seasons, over the years, the curious


    48. The soul has that measureless pride which revolts from every lesson


    49. But nature revolts, and my soul sickens at the bare


    50. Would that all were like you! But what revolts me is the idea of marrying a woman















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    Synonyms for "revolt"

    insurrection rebellion revolt rising uprising churn up disgust nauseate sicken gross out repel loathing revolution overthrow sedition mutiny rise shock

    "revolt" definitions

    organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another


    make revolution


    fill with distaste


    cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of