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rebellion
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rebellion noun breach of orders, contumacy, disobedience, indiscipline, insubordination, insurgency, insurrection, lack of discipline, lese majesty, motus, mutiny, opposition, outbreak, overthrow, overturn, resistance, resistance movement, revolt, riot, rising, seditio, sedition, strike, subversion, upheaval, uprising, upset, violation
See also: anarchy, commotion, defiance, disloyalty, disturbance, infidelity, insurrection, mutiny, outbreak, outburst, resistance, revolt, revolution, riot, sedition, subversion, treason

REBELLION, crim. law. The taking up arms traitorously against the government and in another, and perhaps a more correct sense, rebellion signifies the forcible opposition and resistance to the laws and process lawfully issued.
     2. If the rebellion amount to treason, it is punished by the laws of the United States with death. If it be a mere resistance of process, it is generally punished by fine and imprisonment. See Dalloz, Dict. h.t.; Code Penal, 209.

REBELLION, COMMISSION OF. A commission of rebellion is the name of a writ issuing out of chancery to compel the defendant to appear. Vide Commission of Rebellion.



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25, The New York Times (NYT) quoted Suleiman Jamous, a senior commander with the rebel Sudan Liberation Army (SLA), as saying a government warplane had bombed a rebel camp in a village called Tadit, roughly 40 km south-west of the North Darfur capital, El-Fashir.
Christmas morning dawned gloomy and cold over the rebel camp.
Meanwhile, the complexity of the war has increased considerably amid major splits in the southern rebel camp, one the one hand, and the lack of cohesion among the political groups in the northern side.
 
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