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How to use mutiny in a sentence

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To stem any potential mutiny by the public, military commanders have replaced civilian governors.
All the fundamental issues that gave rise to both the student-led protest and the military mutiny remain.
Britain was finally forced out of India in 1947 after a naval mutiny, demonstrations and strikes.
The long, grueling war caused the mutiny of the French Foreign Legion units whose mission was to retain Algeria as a French colony.
The mutiny, a series of sieges, consisted of small unit actions and major battles.
I don't know if you've got it in your quotes, but I also said at the time, there would be a mutiny in my office, which there was to some degree.
Within a week the mutiny had spread to revolution in every big city in Germany.
The mutiny of the sailors at Kronstadt near Petrograd in March 1921 triggered a change in general policy.
In these two officers' cases, we don't see an attempted mutiny nor do we see a direct challenge to the war effort.
Gulliver's own sailors declare a mutiny on his power and tie him up, conspiring against him, making him their prisoner.
On day 3, there was a small mutiny by the Commodore, who positively refused to go any further and demanded a morning of slummocking in Guildford.
Unwisely, they accompanied their agitation among the soldiery with incitements to mutiny.
They suggest a simmering mood of mutiny and not just among the other ranks.
The lads were at mutiny point by now and we reached the top of the climb not a moment too soon.
Profiting from a mutiny, the rebel forces deployed their troops rapidly and cut the country virtually in two.
Reluctance even to use the term mutiny has resulted in troops being court-martialed, if at all, for lesser offenses.
The whole population feared a new war, but an engineer led a mutiny in the fleet and the expeditionary force was called home.
This opening shot sees our young hero in a Jamaican clink in 1802, charged with mutiny and facing the hangman's rope.
The Russians could not be allowed, in putting the mutiny down, to decimate the force on which the plotters planned to rely.
These doctrines address a range of concerns including ambush, spies, maneuver, counter-intelligence, mutiny and force protection.
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In the meantime all the troops had assembled and the mutiny been swiftly stamped out.
This was mutinously imperious, and yet he did not quite know how to convince her of her mutiny.
For scuttling a ship is surely as ancient a practice as mutiny on the high seas.
Going on to Fuerteventura, he was hampered by a mutiny among his men, and by lack of supplies.
Many a sullen planter eyed his fusil longingly, in the hope that Lawrence might emerge from the forests to head a new mutiny.
This was a clear case of mutiny, and the only one in which I was ever implicated.
The waspish little mutiny was so amusing that Si had to smile in spite of himself.
For the first two days of this new 'kick-up,' that 'fellow Freeland's' family undoubtedly tasted the sweets of successful mutiny.
He was delayed by a mutiny off the coast of Spain, but reached the island of lanzarote in July.
There was only one way to quell this mutiny, and that was to soothe it away.
No case of amputation, nor of resection, at the hip-joint has returned from the Indian mutiny.
Immediately after the battle of Rieti a Carbonarist mutiny broke out in Piedmont independently of events in the south.
Murmur is regarded as mutiny, and he who complains is shot as a conspirator.
Still, it was hoped that the disbandment of the 34th would put an end to the mutiny.
It was his duty to nullify this mutiny if he could, and therefore he turned to the men again.
But St. John's absenting himself from our solemn revels, so long before decreed, is flat mutiny and disclamation of allegiance.
Will you cease your blather of mutiny and treason and courts-martial?
Let them learn thus the price of mutiny in their lousy ranks.
And all the tommyrot one hears at home about another mutiny brewing!
The result of this attempt to modify the scheme was the Indian mutiny.
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