rebellion
叛乱,叛变,叛逆,反叛
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- : open, organized, and armed resistance to one's government or ruler.
- : resistance to or defiance of any authority, control, or tradition.
- : the act of rebelling.
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The administration’s obsession with standardized tests led to a rebellion by parents, students, teachers, principals and even superintendents who spoke out against the policies.
Some of them were seeking a life free of prosecution, though many in the US viewed this repatriation as a pragmatic way to avoid slave rebellions, which is a less rosy motivation.
He fostered curiosity and instilled an underlying sense of rebellion.
In late August, an anonymous developer sporting a cartoon panda chef avatar led a crypto rebellion.
According to some scholars, the settlement stemmed from the rebellion and regrouping of people who fled the collapse of large, urban areas in the southern Levant, modern-day Israel and Palestine.
And, just like Katniss, we need rules that make solidarity a centerpiece of shared life, not a desperate act of rebellion.
It may have looked like paradise, but a rebellion was brewing around the Davises.
Since then, Kisangani has been the epicenter of nearly every rebellion in the Congo.
The Hunger Games franchise is already a deeply political saga, chronicling a growing rebellion against a tyrannical regime.
Democratic rebellion has transformed America in important ways.
For several months he remained under a political cloud, charged with incompetency to quell the Philippine Rebellion.