uprising

IPA: ʌprˈaɪzɪŋ

A popular revolt that attempts to overthrow a government or its policies; an insurgency or insurrection.

Examples of "uprising" in Sentences

Our failure to achieve our stated objective in the uprising is abject.
Now, the uprising is almost dead and if it fails, it would be Obama's Failure to use this situation to over throw the Iranian president.
"Five days later, the uprising is little more than a symbolic protest, crushed by the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps," she wrote.
Joe Cirincione (one of the best writers on proliferation issues) says the uprising is a "game changer" for how Iran may treat the nuclear weapons question in the years ahead.
Mikhael, who writes for the daily An-Nahar, home to both Kassir and Tueni, and who heads the Maharat Foundation that hosted the IFEX conference, was referring to the uprising by Lebanese citizens in 2005 aimed at ending 30 years of Syrian tutelage.