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mutiny

[myoot-n-ee] / ˈmjut n i /




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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

Defending a capital or helping loyalist forces defeat a mutiny requires fewer resources than recapturing and securing vast areas affected by an insurgency.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

Werb argued that the mutiny was the consequence of a worsening security landscape in Niger, with the junta having failed to quell a deadly, long-running jihadist insurgency.

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

Ochieng said the mutiny "demonstrates deep divisions and grievances within the security apparatus", in a country whose soldiers are "constantly in the line of fire, fighting militants".

From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026

General Philippe Pétain, who replaced Nivelle as commander in chief, dealt with the mutiny more through persuasion than punishment.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

Puckish and determined, Hockney didn’t shrink from mutinies small or large.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

The latest controversy adds to a list which includes sinkings, crashes, mutinies, and the controversial 1877 dead heat, when the result was decided in court.

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2025

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

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

Around 3 p.m., she and the two other employees working that day mutinied.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2025

Peng began as a commander in the China-backed Burmese Communist Party, but he mutinied in 1989 as Chinese support stopped, breaking the Burmese Communist Party up into several armed insurgent groups.

From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2023

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

At the end of October, German naval crews mutinied, and within a week, revolutionary outbreaks had spread to every big German city.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

On 7 December, mutinying soldiers claimed to have overthrown the Benin president.

From BBC ● Apr. 16, 2026

In parts of his interview reported by Reuters earlier this week, he said the mutinying Russian mercenaries had headed for a nuclear base in pursuit of a backpack-sized atomic weapon.

From Reuters ● Jul. 14, 2023

By the end of his reign, Roman armies in Gaul and Hispania were mutinying.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

But because I apparently can't make it every single night without my family mutinying, I decided to take its elements and put them into a bite I can have every night.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2022

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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