noun
definition
Rebellion; revolt; the state of being insurgent
example
suppress the insurgency by isolating the rebels from the rest of the population
Examples of insurgency in a Sentence
He was a disciple of Rodin and a leader of the insurgency in America.
He specializes in discreet, highly contained domestic counter insurgency and counterterrorism operations.
The greatest influx of outside fighters to join the insurgency has been from Algeria.
The US strategy to defeat the insurgency indicates that they no longer care about popular opinion among broad sectors of society.
During the communist insurgency of the fifties the infamous ' bamboo trail ' ran through the forest of Belum.
He says the jihadists provide cannon fodder for the insurgency in the form of suicide bombers.
Today there are more than 80 Iraqi army battalions fighting the insurgency alongside our forces.
With British support, and media self-censorship, the US continues to fuel the insurgency with its racist brutality.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai says the violent insurgency in his country will likely continue for years to come.
Some individuals who support the insurgency are known to have traveled to Iraq in order to fight against coalition forces.
Central Asia is peppered with nasty outfits, like Nepal's Maoist insurgency, which literally bleed across borders.
Afghanistan continues to face an armed insurgency, led by remnants of the country's former Taleban regime.
Bet you didn't know about the bloody insurgency that bought terror to germany after the war.
In Assam a separatist insurgency killed hundreds; so have tribal clashes in other states.
For the next three years its chief concern was riding the rising storm of working class insurgency.
Iraq's Sunni minority was dominant under Saddam and is believed to make up the backbone of the country's insurgency.
Some of their advice looked prophetic in retrospect, such as their prediction of widespread looting and insurgency once Saddam Hussein's regime fell.
We haven't seen any civilians in two days, though we've had some fierce battles with some sort of insurgency.
General Greene is leading the Western insurgency.
Despite the enormity of the war's casualties, the Iraqi insurgency continues to grow stronger with every passing day.
If so, no Utopia has ever yet been presented in a style so little calculated to stir the imagination, to warm the feelings, to soothe the insurgency of the reason.
Cancellations are rare, but if a rebel insurgency suddenly happens in the capital city of your study destination, or there's an outbreak of bird flu in the region, it may be deemed too dangerous to continue the program.
According to ABC News, the Maoist Shining Path insurgency killed nearly 70,000 Peruvians during the 1980s and 1990s, nearly bringing Peru into a total collapse.