It is evident that risings and sinkings have occurred at various times, and that causes contingent on earthquakes have produced the variations in the rising and falling of the coast.
Several partial risings in Southern Peru were speedily put down; a leader was wanted to organize the disconnected plans and movements of the insurgents.
News of the risingsheaded by General Beyers in the Western Transvaal and by General De Wet in the Orange Free State.
After this last effort he did not take a very active part in the propaganda and subsequent risings of the Carlists, who, however, continued to consult him.
Isolated risings which took place on the northern side of the Balkans were crushed with similar barbarity.
Yet in no case at this period were such town risings ultimately successful.
Of the many popular risings in Switzerland due to the influence of France, we may briefly touch on those which precede the Bern catastrophe in 1798.
The sporadic risings that followed lacked the spirit of union, and led to no results of any consequence.
The absolute rule of this powerful prelate greatly checked the national risings of the Swabian leaders, for he strenuously maintained the oneness of Church and State.
True, there were the risings of the Anabaptists but these were the same everywhere, and the revolt of the peasants was a general feature of the time.
All risings in order to effect innovations of a public and general concern, by an armed force, are, in construction of law, high treason within the clause of levying war.
Consider further, that these riots were not the accidental or spontaneous risings of the populace, but the result of the deliberations and mature councils of the whigs, and were sometimes headed and led to action by their principals.
A few risings took place, but not enough to make a mark in Europe.
Her first startling successes were due to the fact that the Maltsor risings had largely cleared the way for her.
Each, by promotingrisings in Turkish territory and by financing rival Balkan sovereigns, had silently and ceaselessly worked towards the same goal.
Of the nine or ten leaders who put themselves at the head of provincial risings three were destined to carve out kingdoms for themselves.
Zeno was once chased out of his capital by rebels, and twice vexed by dangerous risings in Asia Minor, but on each occasion he triumphed over his adversaries, and celebrated his victory by the execution of the leaders of the revolt.
These pettyrisings are of periodical occurrence, and seem to be peculiar to Burma.
But it was years ere peace was restored, and even now annual risings take place, whilst thousands of square miles are desolate, and hundreds of towns lie in ruins.
The duke of Burgundy, heir through his wife to the countship of Flanders, wanted to crush the democratic risings among the Flemings.
The class distinctions of feudalism were constant, but the struggles between the lords and the serfs were sporadic, and of comparatively little moment, just as the risings of their slave forefathers had been.
But in June, 1849, the authorities suppressed the paper, because of the support it gave to the risings in Dresden and the Rhine Province.
Yet, such is the lack of perspective which the historians have shown, it is given a far less important place in the histories than the risings in question.
It was a revolution, this transformation of the social system of Rome, of infinitely greater importance than the sporadic risings of a few thousand slaves.
Though local risings of these serfs perpetually spread terror among the English settlers in Ireland, all dream of a national revolt passed away.
Even in Switzerland there were peasant risings in the early years of the sixteenth century.
By the last quarter of the fifteenth century, however, peasant risings had become increasingly numerous and their avowed aims much more definite and far-reaching than, as a rule, were those of an earlier date.
This is one of the striking truths which the history of these peasant risings illustrates in various ways and brings vividly home to us.
In the east, in the Tyrol and Salzburg, there were similar risings to those farther west.
The peasants' agitations took the form both of more or less organised risings and of sporadic rioting, which aimed at ends varying from place to place according to the grievances inspired by the varying conditions of different districts.
Strype, Ecclesiastical Memorials, who remarks that these village officers, "in the places where these risings were, had been the very ringleaders and procurers by their example and exhortation.
The first favor the empress asked of her husband was the pardon of more than four thousand unfortunate persons still exiled or imprisoned for their share in the risings that succeeded the coup d'état.
They were certain that there would be risings and disturbances in Paris.
The risings under Jehangir and Yusuf were undoubtedly a great blow to Chinese prestige.
In Yangy Hissar, Yarkand, and Khoten risings at once took place.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "risings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
