虽然这些机构对于精英们来说不过是一个谈话场所，但它们确实促成了汉族人的反抗行动。

Though these bodies were nothing more than talking shops for the elite, they did galvanise the Han gentry into action.

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这些学者同时指出，去年10月，曾经有41名议员反对将使用侮辱性语言作为刑事犯罪的提议，成为当时在卡梅伦任职期间发生的最大规模的议员反抗行动。

They also said 41 was the number who rebelled in October last year over an attempt to make using insulting language a criminal act which was then the biggest rebellion of Cameron's premiership.

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他警告说如果政府对他采取行动，人民将起来反抗。

He warned that if the government moved against him the people would rise up.

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But,these were reactions against what the State was trying to do.

这些行动是为了反抗政府的规定

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