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Meanings of insurgency in English
An organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict.
Synonyms
Examples for "rising"
Examples for "rising"
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Nevertheless, the company said it still sees prices rising later this year.
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The energy sector remains a credit risk, too, despite rising oil prices.
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Sea levels are also rising and beach erosion is a growing problem.
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Anger over rising prices also fuelled violence in Mauritania late last year.
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Quite why there is a rising trend in serious violence remains unknown.
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The news report said Syrian troops had put down an armed rebellion.
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If legislation is necessary, there is the possibility of rebellion and amendment.
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NEPAL: Nepal's Maoist rebellion is said to be entering a new phase.
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Sudan used government war planes and proxy militias to crush the rebellion.
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The headquarters of the rebellion was in Cumberland, and it was in
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Government forces backed by Saudi troops crushed the month-long revolt last year.
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Meanwhile the people continue to either revolt or escape to other countries.
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However, Brown's position is safe after a backbench revolt came to nothing.
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The social state depicted in the Book of Judges reflects this revolt.
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However, the group ruled out halting militancy in the three-year-old Palestinian revolt.
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Two years into the Syria uprising, a new level of violence unfolded.
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As a result of the civic uprising, the local economy works awkwardly.
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Active, if one could believe McMahon, in this dangerous New IRA uprising.
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He was on Lalonde, therefore Lalonde's uprising problem was instigated by him.
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They fail to reach a final agreement and another Palestinian uprising ensues.
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The news of the terrible insurrection of the catholics in Ireland followed.
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But the rapidity of Alexander again crushed the insurrection in the bud.
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An insurrection was organized in the neighborhood of Amoy early in 1853.
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It was the archbishop who was killed in the insurrection of 1848.
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Nowhere was the insurrection more spontaneous or more general than in Andalusia.
Usage of insurgency in English
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His book is a case study of a counter-insurgency war gone wrong.
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But inter-communal violence has surpassed the insurgency as the main security threat.
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The region saw heavy fighting during an ethnic Albanian insurgency in 2001.
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Matthew Hoh said he believes the war is simply fueling the insurgency.
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U.S. officials said he had organised a Sunni insurgency against American troops.
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A war to disarm a state became a fight against an insurgency.
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It also has an indigenous ethnic Baluch insurgency fighting the central government.
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It also has an indigenous ethnic Baloch insurgency fighting against central government.
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It also has an indigenous ethnic Baloch insurgency fighting the central government.
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U.S. officials said he had organized a Sunni insurgency against American troops.
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The cocaine trade is a key source of funding its communist insurgency.
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The population will push the insurgency out of the city, Carter said.
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Others argued that tackling the insurgency with violence only spurs it on.
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However, most commentators say that the Islamist insurgency has been severely weakened.
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Concern about the country's leadership worryingly coincides with a growing Taliban insurgency.
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The proposed deal aims to end decades of insurgency by Tuareg rebels.
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