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Synonyms for insurrection

organized opposition intended to change or overthrow existing authority

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If you promote foreign backed insurrections in small countries like Libya, what will you do with the big ones like China which have got a different system from the Western system?
But the Constitution explicitly empowers the federal government to "suppress [i]nsurrections." (172) Federal action to quell insurrections is not only "desirable"--in fact, it is expressly authorized by the Constitution.
If We Must Die: Shipboard Insurrections in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Borrowing the trope of The Talking Book from literary critic Henry Louis Gates Jr., and naming four enduring biblical images--Exile, Exodus, Ethiopia and Emmanuel--Callahan assembles an impressive collection of just how the "talking book" has, indeed, talked to revolutionaries, activists, scholars, artists, preachers and everyday people to ignite entire movements from slave insurrections to the Million Man March.
Wars Of Latin America, 1899-1941 is a scholarly survey of turbulent conflict in Latin America during an era when border quarrels and domestic insurrections marked the difficult transition of nations from agrarian to industrial societies.
Kurt Schock, Unarmed Insurrections: People Power Movements in Nondemocracies.
Narratives of the insurrections, 1675-1690; original narratives of early American history.
A great many students came out of that strike, and out of a series of similar events around the country, convinced that still larger insurrections lay in the future, and that we and our new mass movement were going to join together with liberation movements in other parts of the world and finish off capitalism and its crimes once and for all.
troops dealing with insurrections across the length and breadth of Iraq, troop strength and morale being rapidly depleted, and the Iraq mission running out of money, the public is being subtly--but unmistakably--prepared to look to the UN for help.
Transatlantic Insurrections: British Culture and the Formation of American Literature, 1730-1860.
That book was the first to attempt a systematic review of the best practices from nonviolent insurrections of the past, from Jesus to Gandhi, with chapters devoted to such topics as "Taunting High Officials" and "Protest Disrobings." Sharp went on to become something of a cult favorite among dissidents.
Coun Mahmood Hussain, Lord Mayor of Birmingham, unveiled a commemorative plaque to honour those who lost their lives during the First and Second World Wars, as well as insurrections in Brunei and Indonesia, in the Granville Street garden.
The evidence for this assertion involves the records of insurrections of the nineteenth century which show a remarkably high rate of arrest or casualties for the stonemasons in the uprisings of the 1830s, the June Days rebellion of 1848 and the Commune of 1871 (see Table 1).
"During the early and mid '90s," Beane says, "there were basically no gay films being made in Hollywood." He wrote his witty and winsome script, in part, as a response to the strident mid-'80s antigay propaganda film 7he Gay Agenda, which warned of imminent drag-queen insurrections in American towns large and small--a not-so-terrifically awful fate, Beane reasoned.
But the Constitution gives Congress the power to "suppress insurrections" (with the help of the very militia mentioned in the Second Amendment).