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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.
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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Both the Vatican and the Italian government sought to fend off criticism for welcoming Bashir - one of whose ministers is wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes - by using the opportunity to press him to reach a peace agreement with Darfur's disparate rebel groups at talks scheduled to be held in Libya next month. Congo's mineral riches were a catalyst in the country's devastating 1998-2003 war, which drew in half a dozen African armies and spawned a host of local rebel groups and ethnic militias, some of whom still terrorize villagers in the east. The situation in Darfur has grown increasingly complex, with the two or three rebel groups that existed in 2005 having splintered into nearly 20 groups today. |
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