(n.) Insurrection against constituted authority, particularly military or naval authority; concerted revolt against the rules of discipline or the lawful commands of a superior officer; hence, generally, forcible resistance to rightful authority; insubordination.
(n.) Violent commotion; tumult; strife.
(v. i.) To rise against, or refuse to obey, lawful authority in military or naval service; to excite, or to be guilty of, mutiny or mutinous conduct; to revolt against one's superior officer, or any rightful authority.
(v. i.) To fall into strife; to quarrel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patrice Evra Evra Handed a five-match international ban for his part in the France squad’s mutiny against Raymond Domenech at the 2010 World Cup, it took Evra almost a year to force his way back in.
(2) Generals who have mutinied have seized the capital of South Sudan's largest state, Jonglei, and its main oil-producing area, Unity State.
(3) Yet the mutiny, for once, was not that of the fans in black and white.
(4) Just 53 people live on the islands, many descendents of the sailors behind the famous mutiny on the Bounty in 1790, but it is the marine life that attracted National Geographic’s Pristine Seas expedition .
(5) He will inherit a department in turmoil, in the wake of the dismissals of top administrative staff and a growing mutiny over the refugee ban among diplomats, who were circulating a draft cable dissenting from the executive order on Monday.
(6) The idea behind playing Di Maria so high, Van Gaal explained, was so he could stretch QPR with his pace, but United were a convoluted mess for much of the first half and the away end was verging on mutiny as chants of “4-4-2” and “Attack!
(7) Yet in cruising through qualifying, occasionally offering a glimpse of hope through Kane or Sterling but more often failing to quicken the pulse, Hodgson has quelled any talk of mutiny but will likely go into another major tournament with the usual nagging concerns.
(8) Informed observers predict that she will face a mutiny from her own party.
(9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Asserting British rule during the war of independence, also known as the Indian mutiny, 1857.
(10) Defiance is his default setting and Kompany denied his form has suffered – "I feel good," he said – and, while a former rebel, in Tévez, delivered the winner, he denied reports of a modern-day mutiny in the City camp.
(11) Fatty fivers and the Indian Mutiny Not since the Indian Mutiny of 1857 has there been as much fuss about tallow.
(12) Aston Villa have called a crisis meeting in New York to discuss how they can save their season after another dismal weekend for the Premier League’s bottom club and with a growing mutiny among their disillusioned fanbase.
(13) Ferguson replies that he spends many pages in Empire detailing the ravages of the slave trade, and quoting Indians who suffered in the Indian mutiny ("The empire book wears its learning lightly," as he puts it).
(14) The M23 consists mainly of soldiers who mutinied between March and May this year.
(15) A mutiny led by war crimes suspect Bosco "The Terminator" Ntaganda has been slicing through the region with apparent ease, terrorising and displacing hundreds of thousands of people.
(16) The soldiers, who were tried in a closed-door military tribunal, were found guilty of mutiny after refusing to help recapture three remote north-eastern towns seized in October.
(17) Sanogo took power on 21 March after a mutiny at the military camp where he is based about six miles (10km) from the presidential palace.
(18) In May 2002, when dissident soldiers mutinied against their commanders in the central city of Kisangani, Monuc troops did almost nothing as those commanders (including Laurent Nkunda) oversaw the killing of at least 80 civilians and a ghastly bout of rape.
(19) 7 Mutiny (The Family, 1985) While Nothing Compares 2 U is the most famous track Prince wrote for proteges The Family, Mutiny is the best.
(20) That’s what we want – not to give up when you have a bad game or a bad result.” Wenger’s reaction to the mutiny and fury mixed incredulity with resignation – although not the sort of resignation that his critics would like to see.
Rebel
Definition:
(v. i.) Pertaining to rebels or rebellion; acting in revolt; rebellious; as, rebel troops.
(n.) One who rebels.
(v. i.) To renounce, and resist by force, the authority of the ruler or government to which one owes obedience. See Rebellion.
(v. i.) To be disobedient to authority; to assume a hostile or insubordinate attitude; to revolt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Nearly four months into the conflict, rebels control large parts of eastern Libya , the coastal city of Misrata, and a string of towns in the western mountains, near the border with Tunisia.
(2) It’s going to affect everybody.” The six songs from Rebel Heart released thus far do not shy away from controversy: one, Illuminati, mocks the various conspiracy theories on the internet that implicate a variety of entertainers – including Jay-Z and Lady Gaga – in membership of a shadowy ruling elite.
(3) said Wanis Kilani, a uniformed rebel driving a pickup truck with a machine-gun mounted on the back.
(4) But Zambelis added: "Whatever rebel government emerges, China already has a place in the country business-wise.
(5) Rebels have accused regional powers of becoming involved in the fighting, including Angola and Zimbabwe, while the government believes Rwanda has been aiding the militias.
(6) At one, in the Gun and Dog pub in Leeds on Tuesday, a witness described how the meeting descended into chaos when one of the rebels smashed a glass and threatened to attack Griffin supporter Mark Collett.
(7) Somalia has faced drought; famine; decades of conflict, now involving the Islamist rebels of al-Shabaab among other groups; the absence of an effective, central authority; and spiralling food prices.
(8) The Saudi-led war in Yemen launched in March – against Houthi rebels who the Saudis insist are backed by Iran – has diverted resources and underlined the priority being given to the Gulf’s unstable and impoverished backyard.
(9) There were numerous reports of looting and tampering with evidence, although rebel authorities angrily denied them.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An armoured vehicle manned by pro-Russian rebels leaves Donetsk in the direction of the MH17 crash site.
(11) Since Yemeni militia backed by Saudi airstrikes retook the port city from Houthi rebels in July last year , Aden was officially back in government control but largely dependent on other countries for its security.
(12) Monuc was not able to prevent the siege of Bukavu by rebel commanders in 2004 or to counter threats posed by the Rwandan FDLR militia or Laurent Nkunda's National Congress for the Defence of the Congolese People (CNDP) rebellion.
(13) Rebels succeeded in hitting one of the helicopters with a Tow missile, forcing it to make an emergency landing.
(14) The Syrian government also hit rebel-held areas with air strikes on Saturday, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.
(15) Rebelling by dabbling in drink, fags, sex – the list goes on – is part of growing up.
(16) Britain is being urged to halt the supply of weapons to its ally Saudi Arabia in the light of evidence that civilians are being killed in Saudi-led attacks on rebel forces in Yemen .
(17) Ukraine map An aide to Ukraine's interior minister posted on Facebook that rebels had begun surrendering in some areas of Kiev's "anti-terrorist operation", and the newspaper Ukrainskaya Pravda reported that some rebels were asking for a corridor to put down their arms and leave areas surrounded by government forces.
(18) Tehran might also decide to retaliate by stepping up military support for Houthi Shia rebels in Yemen, who are fighting a Saudi-led alliance.
(19) Kiev said the rebels carried out the attacks themselves, with the prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk calling it an act of “Russian terrorism”.
(20) Tallents's two children haven't exactly rebelled and joined the navy; one is involved in direct action, but he has chosen climate change.