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insurrection | American Dictionary

insurrection
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˌɪn·səˈrek·ʃən/
an organized attempt by a group of people to defeat their government or ruler and take control of the country, usually by violence

Examples of insurrection

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In extreme cases of oppression "the right or even the duty of insurrection and regicide" was acknowledged.
The violent insurrections that swelled in the mid- to late-1960s created an opportunity to sharpen the connection of civil rights to crime.
There may have been another meeting, but if there was it was inconclusive, and the scheduled date for the insurrection passed without incident.
Just when the insurrection began has puzzled many, and in this book the authors provide the most sensible answer yet available.
Could insurrection have weighed, nonetheless, in the deliberations of the cabinet in its private meetings?
But they could also latch on to a more insurrectionary tradition harking back to the ' right of insurrection ' claimed by the sans-culottes during the 1790s.
Obviously local elites had little difficulty choosing which side to take once a popular insurrection broke out.
In the light of this last statement the official response to the attempted insurrection is particularly interesting.
They have been behind the extensive and highly mobilised direct actions and insurrection in the region.
Robins also adds a final chapter about the heterogeneous nature of the insurrection that is welcome, yet that also works against his basic arguments.
Most of the insurrection plotters were vehemently opposed to any plans for an assassination.
They stood around day after day not trying to put down an insurrection, but trying to start one.
After all, the successful insurrection against the king restored his political acquaintances to ministerial office.
Venner's men neither gave nor asked for quarter and their violent fury was striking for a pathetically supported insurrection.
It is noteworthy that it could do this for the insurrection, where the evidence of witnesses who were at meetings at which the proposed rising was discussed could be cited.%!
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