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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

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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The firm said that because of social unrest, many firms are not able to open their business, which accrues losses for them.

Marsh launches new social unrest policy

It is the Company's hope that a solution to the social unrest can be achieved as soon as possible and the oil production in the region can resume to the benefit of the country of Tunisia and all its citizens.

Tunisia-oil: Serinus shuts-in production at Sabria field

It is the Companys hope that a solution to the social unrest can be achieved as soon as possible and the oil production in the region can resume to the benefit of the country of Tunisia and all its citizens.

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In the last two decades, several small-scale vertical machine-readable datasets [4, 5] and large scale code event datasets like ICEWS [6] and GDELT (Global Data on Events, Location, and Tone) [7] appeared, fueling the development of computation methods for the analysis and prediction of social unrest. It is worth mentioning that the GDELT dataset, with its tremendous amount of event records more than any other event datasets, opens up a new perspective of this research area.

Predicting Social Unrest Events with Hidden Markov Models Using GDELT

"Social unrest can not be ruled out," he noted ominously.

Swiss army chief to countrymen: "arm yourselves"

ySTANBUL (CyHAN)- Acting Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoy-lu has authorized provincial governors to use the support of land forces against terrorism and social unrest in a government circular, a daily reported on Friday.

Davutoy-lu authorizes governors to use army against terror and social unrest

A prolonged slowdown is more likely to provoke social unrest in China than in other developed economies, because stability there has been based on high growth rather than political and other institutional arrangements.

As the stock market swings

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Early Neolithic mass grave reveals new evidence of a violent age in Central Europe

Consider this: Forbes has suggested that Newcastle is bordering on social unrest as a result of cuts in funding.

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Polls open in landmark Tunisia parliamentary election

This way,A Missorten addressed concerns expressed by trade unions and great social unrest among staff members.

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The paper analyzes on its front page the social unrest in the Balkans in the context of the latest episode in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The paper analyzes on its front page the social unrest in the Balkans in the context of the latest

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