Possessives

• peasant: The answer to both questions is in the crisis in feudal society which was the cause of the peasants ' revolt.

• taxpayer: A taxpayers ' revolt is in full swing, but no senior politician dares to step forward to lead it.

Converse of object

• quell: XIV was ordered back to the continent from Britain to help quell the revolt.

• suppress: To suppress the revolt, Kolchak ordered soldiers to open fire, killing over 300 unarmed civilians.

• repress: Finally, internal measure: as we have seen, using troops to repress a revolt always posed a risk of excess.

• crush: The King will order his Minister of War to send an army against the province to crush the revolt.

• provoke: Even then the Dissolution provoked an armed revolt which nearly cost Henry his throne.

• organize: Major Rafael de Riego y Núñez, military radical who organized revolt against Ferdinand VII in 1820.

Preposition: against

• neo-liberalism: With the movement in Ecuador checked for the moment the focus for the continental revolt against neo-liberalism switched to Bolivia.

• rule: His conclusions on the 1920 revolt against British rule are fascinating.

Adjective modifier

• Maccabean: It is not the inspired Word of God, but is a quite accurate account of the Maccabean revolt.

• agrarian: What was critical in the case of agrarian revolts was much more usually the land itself.

• Arab: The Arab revolt therefore ought to be excised from the chronicles of Arab nationalism.

• armed: Even then the Dissolution provoked an armed revolt which nearly cost Henry his throne.

• tribal: In the past decade several tribal revolts have been reported, all brutally suppressed.

Noun used with modifier

• backbench: With a major backbench revolt over the Education Bill on the horizon, no-one wants any more high wire acts.

• peasant: In Autumn, 1917, almost the whole country was the scene of peasant revolts.

• slave: In 1791 these Africans began the only successful national slave revolt in history.

• shareholder: Recent shareholder revolts have taken place at the Abbey National, Barclays, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Shell and HBOS.