insurgency
Example Sentences
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"People are praying vehemently that the insurgency comes to an end."
From Barron's
After years of insurgencies, residents in eastern Congo are accustomed to food shortages, inflation and destitution.
Military juntas seized power in all three countries, promising to curb the insurgency.
From BBC
Muslims are more numerous in the north, where most militant activity has taken place during more than a decade of Islamist insurgency, while Christians are more populous in the south.
But any attempts by the U.S. or China to extract mineral riches from Balochistan will have to contend with the intensifying insurgency.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
