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    insurgent


    1. don’t get that insurgent off the piano


    2. retreat into the hills and become an insurgent force


    3. insurgent forces, if that were the chosen course


    4. All of this saved the country from likely insurgent actions by rebel forces


    5. Some of the very writers, who in Havana had misled the public with faked stories of victorious insurgent armies sweeping the Island, now found material at the expense of the Cubans in the expose of the phantasms created by their own imagination


    6. Calling in the insurgent leaders, he asked for their co-operation


    7. There was a time, (certainly before my time), when college professors harboring ―progressive‖ or insurgent designs, teaching in more conventionally-minded (academic) environments, had to raise ―false fronts‖; that is to say, ―operate‖ within the school‘s customary guidelines, in order to ―win‖ students over


    8. You know from a conventional war view an insurgent operates very much like your own Special Forces but without air support or medical assistance


    9. “Come on, Insurgent,” he says with a wink


    10. In the spring of 2012, fifty blogs helped spread their love for the DIVERGENT series by supporting the release of INSURGENT in a faction-based online campaign

    11. By March, heavy casualties, desertions, and low recruitment had forced Lon Nol to introduce conscription and, in April, insurgent forces launched an offensive that pushed into the suburbs of the capital


    12. At the center of the collection, beneath a spotlight and crystal glass, was a bronzed grenade that an insurgent had thrown at Hardin while he was Governor of Venezuela


    13. Is she fraternizing with a fellow insurgent? A member of Caveira’s espionage outfit? Surely the Elden didn’t organize this all by themselves


    14. “A proper insurgent


    15. Ultimately, The Law's nature as an adversarial system eventually uses the brute force of cultural engineering to martially beat the cells, organs, and bodies into pliability with military and police forces, heat them in imprisoning presses of dishabilitation that stamps out rubbermade snitches, watchful hooded neighbors, and mercenary nations, whose solution to their social problems is to treat them as insurgent conflicts to be subdued


    16. By turning political dissent into treason and a cry of liberation into insurgent revolution, the manufactured anarchy of boogyman terrorism justifies the State in dropping the Digital Curtain of surveillance across all aspects of its citizen's lives


    17. “Be careful Lady Priya,” Varuna warned, “as wives of the insurgent Ghandharvas


    18. A hospital was turned into an insurgent headquarters and used as a base of operations for the insurgents’ propaganda machine


    19. But there were times when it wasn’t exactly clear, when a person almost surely was an insurgent, probably was doing evil, but there was still some doubt because of the circumstances or the surroundings—the way he moved, for example, wasn’t toward an area where troops were


    20. You’d hear something or see the grass move and not know whether it was an insurgent or an animal

    21. We’d be given the name and location of a suspected insurgent, hit his house at night, then come back and deposit him and whatever evidence we gathered at the DIF—Detention and Interrogation Facility, your basic jail


    22. At some point, I overheard an officer talking about problems the Army was having with some insurgent mortarmen at a base to the west


    23. AS I watched them coming from the post, I spotted an insurgent moving in behind them


    24. UAVs would watch a road, for example, and when they saw someone planting a bomb, they could not only pinpoint the booby-trap but follow the insurgent back to his house


    25. Reports have estimated that there were more than twenty insurgent attacks against Iraqis every day


    26. Insurgent spies hid near the bridges and in various spots in the city


    27. Not ten seconds later, an insurgent walked fat into the crosshairs, AK out


    28. To the west of us was a stretch of approximately one kilometer known for insurgent activity


    29. A hospital was turned into an insurgent headquarters and used as a base of operations for the insurgents’ propaganda machine


    30. But there were times when it wasn’t exactly clear, when a person almost surely was an insurgent, probably was doing evil, but there was still some doubt because of the circumstances or the surroundings—the way he moved, for example, wasn’t toward an area where troops were

    31. You’d hear something or see the grass move and not know whether it was an insurgent or an animal


    32. We’d be given the name and location of a suspected insurgent, hit his house at night, then come back and deposit him and whatever evidence we gathered at the DIF—Detention and Interrogation Facility, your basic jail


    33. At some point, I overheard an officer talking about problems the Army was having with some insurgent mortarmen at a base to the west


    34. As I watched them coming from the post, I spotted an insurgent moving in behind them


    35. UAVs would watch a road, for example, and when they saw someone planting a bomb, they could not only pinpoint the booby-trap but follow the insurgent back to his house


    36. Reports have estimated that there were more than twenty insurgent attacks against Iraqis every day


    37. Insurgent spies hid near the bridges and in various spots in the city


    38. Not ten seconds later, an insurgent walked fat into the crosshairs, AK out


    39. The group had set up an overwatch in a house there; an insurgent got close enough to toss a grenade


    40. And this again, that that insurgent horror was knit to him closer than a wife, closer than an eye; lay caged in his flesh, where he heard it mutter and felt it struggle to be born; and at every hour of weakness, and in the confidence of slumber, prevailed against him, and deposed him out of life

    41. How it was done I don't know, but a few hours afterwards he called up Sulaco again, and what he said was, 'The insurgent army has taken possession of the Government transport in the bay and are filling her with troops, with the intention of going round the coast to Sulaco


    42. The theory was that the practice would make troops less reactive, and therefore less vulnerable to the classic insurgent tactic of provoking the types of disproportionate responses that alienate the civilian population


    43. The whole insurgent group was still under the influence of the emotion of that tragic case which had been so quickly tried and so quickly terminated, when Courfeyrac again beheld on the barricade, the small young man who had inquired of him that morning for Marius


    44. When each had gone to take up his position for the combat, there remained in the tap-room where Javert was bound to the post, only a single insurgent with a naked sword, watching over Javert, and himself, Mabeuf


    45. Jean Valjean, without replying, helped the insurgent whom


    46. In the sad war of June, 1848, an insurgent who was a formidable marksman, and who was firing from the top of a terrace upon a roof, had a reclining-chair brought there for his use; a charge of grape-shot found him out there


    47. A platoon of the National Guard would constitute itself on its own authority a private council of war, and judge and execute a captured insurgent in five minutes


    48. The insurgent is in the death-throes in front of that house; he sees the grape-shot and naked swords drawing near; if he cries, he knows that they are listening to him, and that no one will come; there stand walls which might protect him, there are men who might save him; and these walls have ears of flesh, and these men have bowels of stone


    49. When he had no longer any weapon, he reached out his hands to right and left and an insurgent thrust some arm or other into his fist


    50. It was of him, possibly, that a witness spoke afterwards, before the council of war: "There was an insurgent whom I heard called Apollo








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    Synonyms for "insurgent"

    guerilla guerrilla insurgent irregular freedom fighter insurrectionist rebel seditious subversive

    "insurgent" definitions

    a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions)


    a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment


    in opposition to a civil authority or government