(a.) Rising in opposition to civil or political authority, or against an established government; insubordinate; rebellious.
(n.) A person who rises in revolt against civil authority or an established government; one who openly and actively resists the execution of laws; a rebel.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is especially the case when it is confronted with regimes such as those of Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin that feel no compunction over a scorched-earth response to insurgency and do so with calculation.
(2) he asked in a low voice, referring to the Sunni insurgents sweeping across northern Iraq .
(3) Campbell's assessment came the day after a United Nations report found that ground battles between Afghan forces and the Taliban insurgents had overtaken insurgent bombs as a leading cause of civilian deaths and injuries .
(4) More than 200 American troops are in the country helping to train the army in counter-insurgency, but there are also said to be intelligence and special forces there.
(5) Last week, the army major who ordered Dar to be tied to the vehicle was awarded a commendation for his counter-insurgency work in the region.
(6) Those areas remain under the control of al-Shabaab, the Islamist insurgents, who have restricted access to those affected by famine because they view western aid agencies with suspicion.
(7) Mary and Gerry Menke from the small coastal community of Mallacoota in far eastern Victoria were among the 298 people who died when the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was downed over insurgent-held eastern Ukraine on 17 July.
(8) More than 120,000 people, most of them children, are at risk of starving to death next year in areas of Nigeria affected by the Boko Haram insurgency, the United Nations is warning.
(9) There was little chance of a lasting ceasefire while insurgents were re-arming, mobilising and training with foreign support, he added.
(10) You can bear witness to the gallantry of our military in Burma, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Darfur and many other parts of the world, but in the matter of the insurgency our soldiers have neither received the necessary support nor the required incentives to tackle this problem.” He added: “We believe that there is faulty intelligence and analysis.
(11) The insurgency is still raging, and the president will have to inspire the security forces, choose generals to lead the fight, and plot tactics to beat a tenacious and experienced enemy.
(12) The banalities of a news conference take on a strange significance when the men who summon the world's cameras are members of a feared insurgent group that banned television when they ruled Afghanistan and sheltered al-Qaida.
(13) Allegations that British soldiers murdered insurgents and mutilated their bodies after a fierce firefight in Iraq were roundly rejected by an official inquiry, which also found that a number of prisoners were abused and that troops breached the Geneva convention.
(14) Major Richard Streatfeild, 40, who the Ministry of Defence used as a "poster boy" for the war, was a commanding officer in the insurgent stronghold of Sangin during some of the fiercest fighting.
(15) Sri Lanka mounted a merciless final assault on the Tamil Tiger insurgency in 2009 .
(16) My neighbours, the Taliban text my father’s phone, and during my job they threat[en] me in Icam [the radio system used by insurgents].
(17) The armed Kurdistan Workers party (PKK) have waged a three-decade insurgency in Turkey’s south-east.
(18) According to the latest UN figures, the Taliban were responsible for 80% of the 1,462 civilian deaths caused by fighting between insurgents and pro-government forces in Afghanistan in the first six months of this year.
(19) For example, will the British army, ever again, be engaged in the kind of counter-insurgency operation it has been in Afghanistan?
(20) District head Baba Abba Hassan said most victims are children, women and elderly people who could not run fast enough when insurgents drove into Baga, firing rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on town residents.
Seditious
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to sedition; partaking of the nature of, or tending to excite, sedition; as, seditious behavior; seditious strife; seditious words.
(a.) Disposed to arouse, or take part in, violent opposition to lawful authority; turbulent; factious; guilty of sedition; as, seditious citizens.
Example Sentences:
(1) After the wedding, she found herself at the receiving end of good ol’ southern disapproval when she decided to keep her maiden name – an act that was seen as virtually seditious in unreconstructed 1970s Arkansas.
(2) Now we know that the Tory prime minister intended to extend the charge of seditious insurrection , not only to leftwing Labour councils in Liverpool and London resisting cuts in services, but against the Labour party as a whole.
(3) The annual season of big executive payouts is about to commence once again; at this rate, do not be surprised if the seditious spirit of Millbank spreads – and fast.
(4) Here are two recent purchases: two literally seditious texts.
(5) The 74-year-old, who has spent more than half of his life behind bars, was convicted of “seditious conspiracy” for plotting against the US.
(6) No matter: his relatively mild contribution took its place among seditious quotes from no end of former New Labour high-ups.
(7) Those who stood to defend union strength and the post-war social democratic settlement were seditious outsiders, to be destroyed in a domestic reprise of her Falklands campaign against the Argentinian dictator General Galtieri.
(8) The CSP believes that “American civil and political society is under systematic, sustained and seditious assault – a ‘Stealth Jihad’ – by adherents to Shariah”.
(9) It is surely indicative of the seditious mindset that the meeting was secretly taped and, I understand, not just by one person.
(10) He was prosecuted for seditious libel, financially ruined and spent the following two years in Newgate prison.
(11) The Labour and Liberal Democrat parties are custodians of the best of Britain's radical traditions: the traditions not only of Orwell, but of John Milton, John Stuart Mill and the men and women who struggled against the Stamp Acts and the blasphemy and seditious libel laws.
(12) Lim was jailed for 18 months under the law in 1998 for allegedly making seditious remarks in his defence of a rape victim.
(13) One of the most seditious aspects of the FCC merger review is its chilling action on the participants in the [net neutrality] debate.
(14) That set me off, and probably all my writing has been done within the same seditious framework.
(15) Photograph: Jon Tonks for the Guardian "This is one of the most bloody-minded, seditious areas of the country, and always has been," he tells me.