What's the difference between insurrectional and insurrectionary?

Insurrectional


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to insurrection; consisting in insurrection.

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'.

Insurrectionary


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, insurrection; rebellious; seditious.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That insurrectionary actor never again worked on stage once the heady run of Streetcar was over.
  • (2) The royal decree coincided with the news that 93 jihadists linked to Isis have been arrested this year and that there have been several insurrectionary plots across the kingdom.
  • (3) Insurrectionary protests spread from the capital across Egypt today, convulsing the cities of Suez and Alexandria as protesters engaged in running battles with the police, setting fire to buildings and vehicles.
  • (4) Amid the creative accessorising of insurrectionary protest – a giant puppet of Scaf's head Field Marshal Tantawi was carried by four youths, each sporting masks depicting the faces of those killed over the past year while battling for change – most participants were struck predominantly by the turnout.
  • (5) Culture watch After the insurrectionary final scene as Don and Roger tried to break the news of The Swallowing, Dino sang us out with Money Burns a Hole in my Pocket .
  • (6) Staffed by volunteers and drawing on everything from official records and insurrectionary pamphlets to multimedia footage and updates on Twitter and Facebook, the project aims, in Fahmy's words, "to gather as much primary data on the revolution as possible and deposit it in the archives so that Egyptians now and in the future can construct their own narratives about this pivotal period."
  • (7) Like Marxist insurrectionaries, they often talk about smashing things, about "creative destruction" , about the breaking of chains and the slipping of leashes.
  • (8) Sanctimonious, fearmongering and uninspiring, remain was tone-deaf to an insurrectionary mood that suffered fools more gladly than experts.
  • (9) In any case, avoid falling for the exhausting delusion of endless urban protest or the nihilistic fantasy of winning an insurrectionary war.
  • (10) Humiliated rage and furtive envy characterise Muslim insurrectionaries and Hindu fanatics today as much as they did the militarist Japanese insisting on their unique spiritual quintessence.
  • (11) Matters went altogether too far in the Iran-Contra affair, when the White House staff (and, almost certainly, the president himself) conspired to sell arms to revolutionary Iran, in defiance of declared government policy, and use the money to support the insurrectionary forces in Nicaragua, in defiance of congressional directives.
  • (12) In media and establishment mythology, of course, it was the insurrectionary incompetence of the miners' leadership that led to the breakneck destruction of the mining communities, rather than the government that ordered it.

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