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Walters is the biggest showboat, but there are already signs that Christian nationalists are ramping up this "educational insurgency" across the country.

From Salon

But she has also emerged as an often lonely voice on the Board of Supervisors against a far-right insurgency that has roiled her county.

Women in Somalia - which has suffered a long civil war and a more recent Islamist insurgency - have long played a vital role in peacebuilding, often stepping into leadership roles and pushing for greater political participation.

From BBC

Both were childhood friends who had sheltered together in the same camp in 2009 during the height of the insurgency in Mogadishu - he was someone he could trust.

From BBC

Sikh separatism - rooted in a bloody insurgency in India during the 1980s and early ’90s - continues to strain relations between the two countries.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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