The organization, possibly drawing from the experiences of the 1941 anti-Soviet uprising, envisioned a brief uprising followed by establishment of the independent Lithuanian state.

It got exciting just then, when there was a brief uprising.

Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables includes a fictional account of the brief uprising which followed General Lamarque's death.

For four years after the Zapatistas' brief armed uprising in January 1994, he was a pivotal mediator in talks to end the rebellion.

Interestingly, most Hmong in Thailand also supported a brief Communist uprising during the war.

The rebels have faded from the national limelight that they seized with a brief armed uprising in 1994 in the name of justice for Indians.

Still, many here found the televised scenes of the brief Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza two weeks ago to be heartening.

Apart from a brief uprising in 1848 Portogruaro remained under Austrian control until 1866 when it entered the newly unified Kingdom of Italy.

Hoapili also led troops to suppress another brief uprising in the northern part of the island near Waimea.

A brief English Catholic uprising, the Rising of the North, had just failed.