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• n  organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another

• The insurrection has left anarchy in the city with armed gangs roaming the streets with impunity.
• The insurrection in the jail was put down with an iron hand.
• The first indication that an insurrection was brewing in the French national football team was the alarming number of absentees in the morning training session.

• rebellion
• revolt
• rising
• uprising

News & Articles

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• Researcher Studying Endangered Elephants Flees Central African Republic
  By Kenneth Miller The border guards, wary of advancing rebels, fired their guns in the air as three motorized skiffs approached along the Sangha River in the late March night. But the boats’ occupants were unarmed foreigners, fleeing a bloody insurrection that had gripped the Central African Republic (CAR). Among the refugees was elephant researcher Andrea Turkalo, carrying $25,000 in cash and ...
  June 10, 2013 - Discover

Quotes

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• Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Forbes
  There was no great insurrection. There was a small group of soldiers, heavily armed, who were able to overwhelm some police stations (in the north), kill some policemen and create a certain amount of havoc,Aristide said.
• Alan Greenspan in FOXNews
  Bottling up the frustrations imposed on the average person in rural areas, where the majority of the population still resides, is a recipe for insurrection,Greenspan wrote.
• Marc Ravalomanana in Reuters
  By summer of 1966, the national scene was marked by insurrection on the campus, riots in the streets, rise in women's liberation, protest of the young, doubts about the institution of marriage, abandonment of old guiding slogans, and the crumbling... Jack Valenti http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Valenti&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH_r5yQb8foNuXbRhLJLkdxEt7iYw Guardian Unlimited http://www.google.com/url?q=http://film.guardian.co.uk/apnews/story/0,,-6590373,00.html&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNF-3do1a4agCYq3IbEJUgqqjn1Shw Apr 26, 2007 52592 69764 insurrectional The statement made by the so-called Minister of Justice is invalid as it is the product of an insurrectional, illegal government, and contrary to the constitution of Madagascar," Ravalomanana said in a written statement.