(n.) A rising against civil or political authority, or the established government; open and active opposition to the execution of law in a city or state.
(n.) A rising in mass to oppose an enemy.
Example Sentences:
(1) If I invoked the Insurrection Act against her wishes, the world would see a male Republican president usurping the authority of a female Democratic governor by declaring an insurrection in a largely African American city.
(2) Ukip plays the expenses game expertly in Brussels and Strasbourg, but as a party of insurrection it would be ill-advised to do so in Westminster.
(3) This is an ecumenical insurrection where full-time activists and union leaders worried about jobs are joined by retirees and local mothers.
(4) A stubborn negativity characterised the insurrection.
(5) More significant, there would be an insurrection in the Scottish Labour party.
(6) Even to the end he was being watched like a hawk, his every move and utterance scrutinised for disloyalty or plotting or insurrection, the shock jocks attacking him and blaming him for everything (on Tuesday Ray Hadley said he was up himself because of the way he wears his shirt).
(7) When we were finally taken to Dara'a, the southern city that had been the cradle of this insurrection, we travelled in the presence of four government minders and, when we attempted to talk to anyone, we found ourselves surrounded by Mukhabarat who instructed our interviewees to tell us everything was normal.
(8) 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.
(9) The visit will complete a major foreign policy achievement for Obama, who made dialogue with America’s adversaries such as Cuba and Iran a campaign pledge during his first election in 2008, The president was born on the same year – 1961 – that diplomatic relations between Cuba and the US were severed by then president Dwight Eisenhower in the wake of Fidel Castro’s revolutionary insurrection.
(10) Egypt's ruling military body – the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces – has accused "foreign hands" of inciting insurrection inside the country and whipping up popular protest against army rule.
(11) The government is veering towards chaotic process and open insurrection, with angry confusion and divisions in the cabinet and the leadership group about strategy and direction.
(12) As a newly appointed prime minister in 1999, before becoming president on New Year's Day 2000, he began with a war in Chechnya , brutally suppressing an armed insurrection against Moscow's rule in the north Caucasus and razing the provincial capital, Grozny.
(13) It was alarming to hear the claim by the government that it is facing an "armed insurrection" in Homs and Baniyas.
(14) In a sermon earlier this week, the radical cleric called for a widening of the violent insurrection in Libya, encouraging "revolutionaries" to target Bayda, the home of the government, and Tobruk, where parliament has fled to.
(15) What haunts them, however, is a creeping dread that nearly 500 days of unprecedented insurrection, mobilisation and exhilaration is about to end in despair: that Walker will defeat the Democratic challenger, Tom Barrett, and thereby sow defeat for Democratic causes and candidates nationwide, including President Barack Obama.
(16) The Kangaroo rugby league club in Queanbeyan isn’t the most obvious setting for an insurrection against the government’s renewable energy policy.
(17) It spelled despair for union and grassroots activists who had waged an 18-month campaign, verging on insurrection, to oust the governor and several allies over restrictions on collective bargaining and cutbacks of pension and health benefits of public sector workers.
(18) With a sizeable Shia population, mainly in the key oil-producing east, any assertion of Shia rights is exaggerated into an insurrection.
(19) Cheney has been a creature of Washington since 1969, a 44-year streak whose very length belies any inclination toward insurrection, much less any sort of change.
(20) Captain Ledley King had refused to join the chorus of open insurrection that was rising at White Hart Lane, saying there was 'still time'.
Resurrection
Definition:
(n.) A rising again; the resumption of vigor.
(n.) Especially, the rising again from the dead; the resumption of life by the dead; as, the resurrection of Jesus Christ; the general resurrection of all the dead at the Day of Judgment.
(n.) State of being risen from the dead; future state.
(n.) The cause or exemplar of a rising from the dead.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Trimble, also a former leader of the UUP, said that resurrecting the IMC could act as a “confidence-building measure” for the unionist community.
(2) Conscious hip-hop may have once died an untimely death, but its resurrection is good news for everyone, especially if you've got shares in Eastpak.
(3) The church excommunicated him in 1901, unhappy with his novel Resurrection and Tolstoy's espousal of Christian anarchist and pacifist views.
(4) Mitalipov's work resurrects cloning as a means of making tool for creating stem cells, and means that iPS cells can now be compared directly with embryonic stem cells to see if the differences matter.
(5) No call for the resurrection of the proud, shared traditions of Scots, Welsh and English people as they defied the powerful to build a better society; no convincing pledge that a new Britain would be forged, just and equal and fair unlike what New Labour failed to deliver.
(6) A lthough Steven Spielberg's new movie Lincoln barely shows the event, Abraham Lincoln was murdered by an actor – in a theatre, no less – so it seems especially appropriate that, a century and a half later, his resurrection should be conducted by a member of the same profession.
(7) I act with deeds and words, because the government seems determined to resurrect the old Victorian approach to disabled people.
(8) He must also decide whether to resurrect the post of White House climate adviser, which has been empty since early 2011 when Carol Browner stepped down .
(9) Few see it as a coincidence that the supreme court this week resurrected its efforts to have Swiss authorities prosecute Zardari on corruption charges.
(10) The future It is therefore surprising that this now discredited notion has been resurrected in the current debate over who can use which public restrooms.
(11) f) Excess, unbound fixative inhibited the histochemical reaction per se and had to be removed from the tissue but prolonged washing did not resurrect enzyme activity which was lost by fixation.
(12) If Ukip is ever to resurrect itself as a serious political force, it’s going to need a good long think about what fundamentally drives people to be Ukip.” Arnott said he would formally resign as Ukip’s general secretary and constitutional affairs spokesman after the party’s national executive committee (NEC) meeting on Monday.
(13) He then went on to resurrect his scenario of the ordinary worker who sees their neighbour "still asleep, living a life on benefits", to announce measures to cut almost £4bn a year from the welfare bill by uprating benefits for Britain's poorest by just 1% a year until 2015.
(14) A core group of European Union founding countries is to risk the fury of Visegrád member states as it forces the resurrection of a two-speed Europe back on to the Brussels agenda six decades after the treaty of Rome.
(15) It said that demonstration sparked an investigation then into whether the Brotherhood had resurrected a military wing.
(16) But now, with the surprise resurrection of Arrested Development and a well-adjusted lead role in new sitcom The Millers , he's in a pretty good place.
(17) Touré, nonetheless, was clearly relieved about a verdict that at least gives the former Arsenal player the chance to resurrect his career at a time when Mancini is already looking at bringing in another centre-half to partner Vincent Kompany.
(18) What was the 50p tax rate that Labour says it will resurrect?
(19) Now the physical intervention is about to start.” The chapel above the tomb where Christ is believed to have been buried and resurrected is in danger of collapse.
(20) One encounters these inner-city vicars who don't seem to mind what you believe – some will even say that the resurrection is but a metaphor – but don't be fooled.