What's the difference between mutiny and rebellion?

Mutiny


Definition:

  • (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.

Rebellion


Definition:

  • (v. i.) The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes obedience, and resistance to its officers and laws, either by levying war, or by aiding others to do so; an organized uprising of subjects for the purpose of coercing or overthrowing their lawful ruler or government by force; revolt; insurrection.
  • (v. i.) Open resistance to, or defiance of, lawful authority.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) She added: “We will continue to act upon the overwhelming majority view of our shareholders.” The vote was the second year running Ryanair had suffered a rebellion on pay.
  • (2) And I want to do this in partnership with you.” In the Commons, there are signs the home secretary may manage to reduce a rebellion by backbench Tory MPs this afternoon on plans to opt back into a series of EU justice and home affairs measures, notably the European arrest warrant .
  • (3) For an industry built on selling ersatz rebellion to teenagers, finding the moral high ground was always going to be tricky.
  • (4) 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.
  • (5) In the largest rebellion, 57 Lib Dems voted against the government, with only a handful of backbenchers supporting the party's ministers in the lobbies.
  • (6) Some 59.29 % had opposed the remuneration report, a rebellion only exceeded by one at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) at the height of the banking crisis, and surpassing the 59% that voted against the £6.8m pay deal for Sir Martin Sorrell at his advertising company WPP in 2012.
  • (7) These scattered rebellions by HMV workers stand in a venerable tradition.
  • (8) The Commons has already given the Treasury leeway to draw down an extra £10bn to give the IMF, but anything further would require a fresh vote in the Commons – and be likely to prompt a backbench Tory rebellion.
  • (9) Brown restored a degree of his authority yesterday when no other cabinet ­minister echoed James Purnell's call for him to quit, and two critical cabinet figures – David Miliband and John Hutton – decided to shore up Brown's position rather than join a potential rebellion.
  • (10) Commentators in the west have thus often explained the Houthi conflict in terms of another Middle East struggle between Sunni and Shia Muslims, a Sunni-led Yemeni government battling a minority Shia rebellion.
  • (11) The Arabic term "intifada" means "shaking off" or "uprising" and first entered popular usage during the 1987 Palestinian rebellion against Israel.
  • (12) Ukraine and the west have repeatedly accused Russia of fuelling the five-month pro-Russian rebellion with arms, vehicles and undercover Russian troops.
  • (13) Second, the impetus for change may come from unexpected sources, including those high-flying corporate women, some of whom are beginning to show promising signs of rebellion.
  • (14) Before the August rebellion Uganda and Rwanda both had some troops on the eastern Congo border, by agreement with Mr Kabila and theoretically in joint operations with his forces against the tens of thousands of former Rwandan soldiers and interahamwe who have vowed to continue the genocide in Rwanda.
  • (15) George Osborne averted a Tory backbench rebellion in the Commons on Monday when the Treasury gave a powerful hint that the government could defer a planned 3p increase in fuel duty.
  • (16) Muslims suspected of collaborating with Djotodia's rebellion have been stoned to death in the streets and their bodies mutilated.
  • (17) Unlike the "programme motion" withdrawn by the government on Tuesday in the face of the Tory rebellion, the new motion can be amended.
  • (18) The prime minister is battling to ensure a backbench rebellion does not spread to the left of the party, or to MPs in Labour heartlands where the party fared worst last night.
  • (19) As MPs return from their summer holidays, Conservative rebellions are looming over rising rail fares, rising fuel duty and, as we report today, Tory councillors are growing increasingly uneasy over planned cuts in council tax relief which they say will hit low earners disproportionately hard in April.
  • (20) A rebellion against Wall Street efforts to wriggle free from recent banking reforms picked up momentum in Congress on Thursday as House Democrats dramatically withdrew support for passage of the US budget in a knife-edge procedural vote.