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How to use up in arms in a sentence

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Angry residents are up in arms over a proposal to site a giant mobile phone mast near their homes.
Activists are up in arms over a Bush proposal to allow nuclear reactors in spacecraft.
However, some cabbies are up in arms over plans for them to wear clip-on ties instead, which they say still represent a danger.
Angry road hauliers in Laois are up in arms about the costs associated with their businesses.
Angry residents are up in arms following new proposals to build 14 flats on a former petrol station site in Rawdon.
Hunt's efforts brought about a fashion in Boston for French paintings, causing the local devotees of British Pre-Raphaelitism to rise up in arms.
Now before all you old school Emmers go up in arms about how I can sommer get a new contributor without your permission, etc.
Pupils at an Upper Hutt school are up in arms after being told not to hug each other at school.
The implications are profound, which is precisely why the right-wing scapegoaters are up in arms.
Residents and parents who reside on the Mountain Road are up in arms over the dangers posed by speeding traffic.
Traders in Havefordwest's top of town are up in arms at the lack of notice given to them over the closure of Market Street to traffic.
Parents and teachers are up in arms over whether a peace banner is political, and whether peace should be promoted in schools.
The moral majority types, many of whom had never even seen the film were all up in arms against it.
I guess if he did have to suffer that indignity, Amnesty International would be up in arms.
The good citizens were so enraged that they rose up in arms, figuratively at least, and founded the civic society.
Residents in Willington are up in arms over a building development plan which, they say, will triple the size of the village.
Angry farmers are up in arms after plans to build a new livestock market were thrown out.
At the other extreme, Manchester United fans are up in arms at the idea of Malcolm Glazer buying their club and running it as a business.
Journalists working on the rag are up in arms over a series of anti-Gypsy stories printed over the last few weeks.
This is why many are up in arms to defend their interests, with others willing to go all the way in their call for reform and change.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Reports came in that the countryside was up in arms, moving to attack the Mercutians.
He was cut to the quick, yet a phantom of self-justification was up in arms.
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