Examples of revolted

• Its hegemony lasted until about 1450 when, during a period of severe drought and cold, its vassals revolted and destroyed the city.

• Ultimately the pro-division faction contrived to get the government to support its position and when the ' rebel' party revolted, the federal army unleashed counter-revolutionary terror.

• And they could even have fled the land or revolted against the new regime if the changes were perceived to be too burdensome.

• Most were appalled and revolted by such a prospect.

• So too, men and women handle string bags every day, often admiringly and possessively, but they are revolted by placentas and other birth substances.

• The author's conclusion that 'the clergy were revolted by any idea of collaborationism' (pp. 348-51) can thus be hardly reconciled with his evidence.

• For example, contemporary intelligence reports noted that from 1917 the movement adopted a more radical agenda that revolted 'against the whole of the accepted system of industry'.

• The adjustment of emotions and expectations to the realities of inherited social practice against which few revolted gave an unusual colouring to the affects of marital life.

• The whole country is revolted by this crime against her family and against her whole community.

• They revolted against it, and rightly, because minorities ought not to suffer.

• The whole population was revolted at the system of government that had been imposed on them.

• Most ordinary people are revolted by what those workers have to do.

• One would have thought his common sense would have revolted against so startling a proposition.

• They see indecent publications on the bookstalls, but do not buy them because they are not interested, or are revolted.

• The world has been shocked and revolted by the scale of savagery and the crude brutality witnessed there.