(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.
Storming
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Storm
() a. & n. from Storm, v.
Example Sentences:
(1) One man has died in storms sweeping across the UK that have brought 100-mile-an-hour winds and led to more than 50 flood warnings being issued with widespread disruption on the road and rail networks in much of southern England and Scotland.
(2) While winds gusting to 170mph caused significant damage, the devastation in areas such as Tacloban – where scenes are reminiscent of the 2004 Indian ocean tsunami – was principally the work of the 6-metre-high storm surge, which carried away even the concrete buildings in which many people sought shelter.
(3) Three dead after gunman storms Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Read more Robert Lewis Dear, a 57-year-old from North Carolina, has been named as the suspected gunman behind a standoff at a Planned Parenthood health clinic in which three people died and nine were injured .
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A storm driven wave crashes against the sea wall at Saltcoats.
(5) There is a real danger in ascribing New Orleans’ situation over the last decade to the storm.
(6) Turkish police have stormed the offices of an opposition media group days before the country’s pivotal election, in a crackdown on companies linked to a US-based cleric and critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan .
(7) These are all steps we can take and we’re in a much better place to weather this storm because of the action we’ve taken over the last four years.
(8) We present a case of a natural death following thyroid storm in which marked thymic hyperplasia was present.
(9) His comments provoked a storm on social media, with political tensions riding high as Erdoğan prepares to stand in presidential elections on 10 August.
(10) Hurricane-associated storm intensity and rainfall rates are projected to increase as the climate continues to warm."
(11) If the extra heat stored in the oceans is released into the atmosphere, then the severity of storms will inevitably increase.
(12) Despite the spring-heeled bounce in their hair-raising hardcore storm – and their productive affair with Funkmaster George Clinton – the Peppers’ soul stew remains predominantly, ragingly punky.
(13) They can expect to be swamped more often by tidal surges, battered by ever stronger typhoons and storms, and hit by deeper droughts.
(14) What we are witnessing is the collision of two imperfect storms: the Conservative party’s turmoil over the future of taxation, and the transformation of the economy.
(15) A State Department of Emergency Management spokeswoman, Laura Southard, said the storm had the potential to be a "historic ice event".
(16) A drowning in Spartanburg, South Carolina, also was linked to the storm.
(17) Collapsed houses lie on the beach after a storm surge in Hemsby.
(18) Eoin McLennan-Murray, a former president of the PGA, said in February 2014 that staff shortages and increasing numbers of incidents were creating a “perfect storm” that would destabilise prisons .
(19) For decades it languished all but forgotten, save for Hollywood using its storm drains in films such as Grease and Terminator 2 .
(20) Boxing Day sales shoppers were soaked as downpours continued across the country on Wednesday, and there were warnings that an Atlantic storm would bring more heavy rain at the weekend.