insurgency
叛乱,叛乱活动,叛变,反叛
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plural in·sur·gen·cies for 4.
- : the state or condition of being insurgent.
- : insurrection against an existing government, usually one's own, by a group not recognized as having the status of a belligerent.
- : rebellion within a group, as by members against leaders.
- : insurgence.
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While some resistance remains, the Taliban will transition from an insurgency to a ruling government.
This violence, in part, fueled the insurgency, mitigating the good America also did the country.
In addition to assurances that the insurgency was on its heels, officials often trotted out statistics about lower infant mortality rates, increased life expectancy and vastly improved educational opportunities for girls.
Back then, Afghanistan was wide open for al-Qaida, but there had not yet been a civil war in Syria, an insurgency and its still-unsettled aftermath in Iraq, a revolution in Libya followed by a civil war.
Fighting an insurgency is a long game indeed, and we did not heed the historical need for patience –the opposite of unwarranted self-confidence.
Originally it was a low-level insurgency mainly confined to the Sinai Peninsula .
Rather, the revolution was brought there by certain elements of the insurgency.
They were busily implementing these in cases like Roe v. Wade when a right-wing insurgency took them by surprise.
You are not trying to create an insurgency, after all, you are trying to stop one.
But if Kobani falls it could well end up re-igniting the 30-year long Kurdish insurgency inside Turkey.
In short, insurgency ceased to be a valid plea; if it existed in fact, officially it had become a dead letter.