(1) The agents remain steely and mutinous, their eyes fixed on a distant plot of land in James Street, Covent Garden, where they could all start a new life.
(2) Military officials said one of the mutineers was killed and six were wounded in the fighting, and tanks and armoured vehicles were later deployed around the palace.
(3) And the setting of a spending review for June is bound to provoke months of mutinous muttering from ministers in charge of unprotected departments (see Vince Cable, Theresa May and Philip Hammond ).
(4) As in most mutinous them-and-us industrial confrontations it had been simmering for years and then boiled over for what seemed the most trifling of reasons.
(5) Corbyn also faces a mutinous parliamentary Labour party .
(6) I was put in mind of Ernest Shackleton, stranded on a sheet of ice, his policies crushed to fragments, his men mutinous.
(7) The most serious coup attempt against her, in December 1989, was quashed only when a flyover by US jets deterred mutinous soldiers.
(8) What a Lovely War, The Monocled Mutineer and Blackadder, as a misbegotten shambles – a series of catastrophic mistakes perpetrated by an out-of-touch elite.
(9) Any record collection ought to contain copies of Mr Bad Example, Mutineer, Life'll Kill Ya or My Ride's Here, this latter featuring Warren's best buddies Hunter S Thompson, novelist Carl Hiaasen and David Letterman.
(10) Town after town has fallen, and now the mutineers almost have the gates of the provincial capital, Goma, within their sights, just as Nkunda did in 2008.
(11) Western governments are wary of dealing with mutinous middle-ranking army officials led by Amadou Sanogo, who maintains a tenuous grip on power and faces a resurgent, decades-old independence movement with links to AQIM.
(12) His article in the Daily Mail last Friday, attacking "leftwing academics all too happy to feed the myths" of Blackadder and The Monocled Mutineer , was clever but unwary journalism.
(13) But the speed with which American commentators, reacting to McChrystal's mutinous behaviour, moved to stress the need to control the generals indicated uneasiness about current trends.
(14) Of course, my mother also knows that and my grandmother knows that.” On Saturday there was applause and oohs and aahs, and no mutinous noises.
(15) Nor that he has to cosy up to paranoid weirdos like the Professor, who wears a steampunk suicide vest under his overcoat at all times, just in case something mutinous goes down.
(16) Come on Grahame, name the ‘mutineers’!” he responded on Twitter.
(17) To avoid this catastrophe, Stevens should train his frontline officers, the senior partners in GP practices and hospital consultants, to be leaders, motivated to take the mutinous trolls into a different and better sort of world.
(18) The parliamentary Labour party The mutinous mood of Labour MPs on Monday night was always going to be a bad news story, but it turned into something much worse – a tale of Corbyn somehow losing all control before he’d even assumed it.
(19) What a Lovely War , The Monocled Mutineer and Blackadder .
(20) For a while the mutinous crowd teetered on open revolt, only for Hull to surrender the initiative.
Revolt
Definition:
(n.) To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
(n.) Hence, to be faithless; to desert one party or leader for another; especially, to renounce allegiance or subjection; to rise against a government; to rebel.
(n.) To be disgusted, shocked, or grossly offended; hence, to feel nausea; -- with at; as, the stomach revolts at such food; his nature revolts at cruelty.
(v. t.) To cause to turn back; to roll or drive back; to put to flight.
(v. t.) To do violence to; to cause to turn away or shrink with abhorrence; to shock; as, to revolt the feelings.
(n.) The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire.
(n.) A revolter.
Example Sentences:
(1) The announcement on feed-in tariffs will be welcomed by Labour backbenchers, who staged the biggest revolt of Gordon Brown's leadership over the issue.
(2) Indeed, his reaction to the nationwide citizens' revolt reveals ominous parallels with another autocratic leader who has recently found himself in a tight spot: Vladimir Putin.
(3) I doubt the Daily Telegraph or David Cameron would support openly available "good porn", because I suspect they are just revolted by the whole idea of mixing sex and young people generally.
(4) "I doubt if there are any rational people to whom the word 'fuck' would be particularly diabolical, revolting or totally forbidden," Tynan said loftily, in the middle of a discussion about how sex could be represented on stage.
(5) Earlier, the deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg , said the heightened security measures could remain in place on a permanent basis as he warned of the dangers posed by a "medieval, violent, revolting ideology".
(6) A statement from the White House press secretary, Jay Carney, late on Tuesday evening capped an extraordinary day of near-revolt on Capitol Hill concerning the secret National Security Agency surveillance programes revealed by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden and published by the Guardian and Washington Post.
(7) Westminster wits had taken to ridiculing the rebel movement against Gordon Brown as a "peasants' revolt", a cohort without influence.
(8) Ukip is also a very grey revolt, which adds another dark cloud over its long-term prospects – although, of course, generational change takes a long time!
(9) "Public sector workers and their families are utterly shocked by Jeremy Clarkson's revolting comments.
(10) As such, only in localised situations, where a popular revolt has long been brewing against cartel politics – Tower Hamlets or Bradford, for instance – has the left made a breakthrough.
(11) The Daily Telegraph delivered yesterday, describing the March in May protests as a revolt of the ferals .
(12) But despite all the institutional obstacles, Fahmy is certain that the size and nature of this year's revolt means there can be no going back to the days when Egyptians were severed from the deliberations and documents of those ruling in their name.
(13) Standard Chartered, HSBC's rival emerging markets bank, last week suffered the biggest revolt on a pay policy so far when 41% of shareholder votes opposed its proposed bonus terms for top executives.
(14) The news comes as James Murdoch faces a shareholder revolt over his continuing presence on the board of BSkyB, where he acts as chairman.
(15) The revolt represents a bittersweet victory for Tsipras, who now has to rely on “pro-European” opposition parties to push policies through parliament.
(16) Few measures have elicited more anger – or ingenious forms of revolt – than the property tax announced by Greek ministers to plug a budget black hole that might have gone unnoticed had Greece's plight not threatened the entire eurozone.
(17) A backbench revolt by Dáil deputies from the main ruling party Fine Gael is only going to amount to up to five of its Teachta Dálas with the protection of life during pregnancy bill likely to be passed on Thursday morning.
(18) How did Hilary Benn, Maria Eagle, Charles Falconer and Paul Kenny choose Trident as the totem of revolt?
(19) This afternoon, the first man sent out to dismiss the revolt was Tony Lloyd, chairman of the parliamentary Labour party, and the man who would have had to call the unconstitutional secret ballot.
(20) There is boardroom squabbling, the workforce is in open revolt and there are no new product lines.