insurrectionary
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"The defendant is deemed to have played a significant role in the insurrectionary acts of Yoon and others by ensuring, at least formally, compliance with the procedural requirement," Judge Lee said in a televised sentencing.
From Barron's ● Jan. 21, 2026
He added that Tchiroma Bakary's "accomplices responsible for an insurrectionary plan" will also face legal action.
From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2025
While many of the Jailhouse Lawyers Speak leaders identified as prison abolitionists, their approach accepted that ending mass incarceration is a long, complicated political struggle, not the product of one insurrectionary event.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2018
But unlike Amber, the title character of 2006’s The Accidental—a hostile insurrectionary who blows up the complacency of an upper-middle-class family—Lux is gentle, observant, practical.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2018
General Miller then wrote Otis begging permission to attack on the ground that upon the success of the expedition he was in charge of “depends the future speedy yielding of insurrectionary movements in the islands.”
From The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. Blount
Indeed, pardons of that kind have been issued by the tens of thousands to former rebels, insurrectionaries, draft dodgers, or deserters after nearly every American domestic or foreign conflict.
From Slate ● Dec. 6, 2024
And since insurrectionaries don’t easily give up the power they have acquired, his opponents needed a plan to remove him.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 2016
It was not aimed at the King, on the contrary the insurrectionaries professed the greatest loyalty.
From Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir by Lady Biddulph of Ledbury
