What's the difference between pronunciamiento and uprising?
Pronunciamiento
Definition:
(n.) See Pronunciamento.
Example Sentences:
Uprising
Definition:
(n.) Act of rising; also, a steep place; an ascent.
(n.) An insurrection; a popular revolt.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are already witnessing a wholly understandable uprising of protest.
(2) The dispute is rooted in the recent erosion of many of the freedoms Egyptians won when they rose up against Mubarak in a stunning, 18-day uprising.
(3) "They have a retaliatory doctrine," Salah argued of the police, whose brutality was a major cause of Egypt's 2011 uprising , but who have become more popular after backing Morsi's overthrow.
(4) A six-month uprising by the rebel group M23, led by war crimes suspect Bosco "the Terminator" Ntaganda, has caused fresh turmoil in eastern Congo and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
(5) The timing of the move against the foreign workers comes as a further blow to the reform movement in Egypt that has been pushing for real democratic change in the wake of last year's popular uprising against Mubarak.
(6) The Arabic term "intifada" means "shaking off" or "uprising" and first entered popular usage during the 1987 Palestinian rebellion against Israel.
(7) It took the first intifada (the largely unarmed, six-year uprising that preceded the current, far more violent one) to transform Yassin wholly and irrevocably, and to pitchfork him into the forefront of the Palestinian struggle as a serious rival to Arafat himself.
(8) Public debate over the problem intensified after the 2011 uprising, with activists and lawyers saying they see progress in transforming attitudes and more harassers being jailed.
(9) Several dozen former Gaddafi administration officials arrested for war crimes in recent weeks were sprung from jail during the uprising.
(10) In the early hours of Friday, exactly 25 years after US forces bombed Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziya compound in central Tripoli, thousands gathered in defiance of the new international coalition against the Libyan regime's brutal efforts to suppress the uprising from the east.
(11) One was of Isa Boljetini, an Albanian nationalist who led uprisings against the Ottomans and the Serbs in 1912 and 1913.
(12) Despite the casualties, and despite the strong cards held by the Israelis, many Palestinians are convinced that the uprising will succeed in shifting Israel's position.
(13) Offering few details, Vasyl Krutov told a news conference: “There is gunfire and clashes around Kramatorsk … what we are facing in the Donetsk region and in the eastern regions is not just some kind of short-lived uprising, it is in fact a war”.
(14) According to officials, the turnout was a respectable 38.6% – higher than the 33% who voted in a referendum during Morsi's tenure, but lower than the 41.9% who turned out in a similar poll following Egypt's 2011 uprising.
(15) The Obama administration was in the forefront of efforts to mobilise international diplomatic support for the Libyan rebels as the uprising began to unfold, backing multilateral sanctions in concert with the EU and lobbying Arab leaders who had no reason to love Gaddafi.
(16) He also stressed Britain's leading role in organising the international response to the uprising that began in March.
(17) Russia is challenging everyone and saying there is no alternative to Bashar,” said Hassan Haj Ali, a Syrian army captain who defected after the uprising began in 2011.
(18) "The only answer to the mess we are in is social uprising and the end of all these barbaric measures."
(19) Luis Moreno-Ocampo told reporters at the UN in New York last night there were strong indications that hundreds of women had been raped in the Libyan government clampdown on the popular uprising and that Gaddafi had ordered the violations as a form of punishment.
(20) The Tobruk parliament was Libya’s second elected legislature since longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown and killed in a 2011 uprising.