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- verb Present participle of
rebel .
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Examples
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There is also the strong possibility that had the British tried to impose abolition on the slave holding colonies the colonies might have been successful in rebelling and kept slavery.
Taxes, Independence, and Canada, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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For the record, the UN Partition Plan was terrible, and the locals were justified in rebelling against their new, unelected, immigrant rulers.
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Relieved to see that "Children's musicians, rebelling" is NOT on that list.
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Only instead of wanting to be like dear old dad, this rock spawn's idea of rebelling is to be conservative and go to college, until a misunderstanding derails his plans.
‘Born To Rock’ Seeks Director For Fish-Out-Of-Water Roadie Movie » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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In promoting Jesus, God alienates Satan; in rebelling against God, Satan confirms that alienation.
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Tong Kuan Mohammedans assumed an inoffensive attitude, and finally tendered submission to the city government, an act that was never looked upon with favor on account of their great treachery in rebelling at all.
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The Jews, in rebelling against the Romans, and in persecuting the
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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I tried to live like I believed the tenets, even while I fought private doubts that extended all the way back to age four or five well before I could have made sense of the idea of rebelling against my parents.
Romney has a gay old time shunn 2007
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I tried to live like I believed the tenets, even while I fought private doubts that extended all the way back to age four or five well before I could have made sense of the idea of rebelling against my parents.
Romney has a gay old time shunn 2007
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He conceived the idea of rebelling against the king of Persia, and of collecting the Jews who live in the mountains of Chafton to go forth and to fight against all the nations, and to march and capture
The Itinerary of Benjamin of Tudela Benjamin of Tudela
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