mutiny
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The thwarted mutiny also highlights something the ruling junta may not want to admit - just how dependent on Moscow it has become for security.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Was this a simple mutiny or an attempted coup?
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Cash in circulation jumped after President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilisation in September 2022 and during a brief mutiny by the Wagner mercenary group in June 2023.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Seeing Samary revealed as the coup spokesman, Tévoédjrè was dismayed to realize he had sent a mutineer to stop a mutiny.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
Winter weather forced the men to find a safe harbor for five months, during which time there was an attempted mutiny.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Puckish and determined, Hockney didn’t shrink from mutinies small or large.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
China has taken some limited steps recently to prevent strikes, mutinies and violence on its fishing ships.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023
Rights groups also warn that civilians usually bear the brunt of these mutinies.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 28, 2023
Her new book caps off her trilogy of collections of briny, splendidly misanthropic riffs on chronic illness and all the mutinies of the body, lust, aging, her two dead parents, her two white stepchildren.
From New York Times ● Dec. 2, 2020
Following the defeat at the Chemin des Dames, French soldiers engaged in what historians have called “the mutinies of 1917.”
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
He briefly mutinied, demanding back-pay for his soldiers, promotions and a political position for his brother.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2025
Around 3 p.m., she and the two other employees working that day mutinied.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2025
There was further controversy last year when members of the Spanish women's team mutinied against their coach Jorge Vilda.
From Reuters ● Aug. 31, 2023
A few years after the showdown at Worms, unpaid troops in the Habsburg Emperor’s army mutinied, then sacked Rome and the Vatican.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2023
Rinaldi said that the French had mutinied and troops marched on Paris.
From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway
On 7 December, mutinying soldiers claimed to have overthrown the Benin president.
From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026
By the end of his reign, Roman armies in Gaul and Hispania were mutinying.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
It’s the captain’s job to ensure their ship is stocked with food, water, and ammo lest they run the risk of their crew mutinying from a lack of provisions.
From The Verge ● Apr. 29, 2022
In other words, in waging endless war, Americans are also, in effect, mutinying against the planet.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2019
They were always showing Columbus discovering America, having one helluva time getting old Ferdinand and Isabella to lend him the dough to buy ships with, and then the sailors mutinying on him and all.
From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger
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