insubordination

How To Use insubordination In A Sentence

• There is some muttering about being 'dragooned', but I do not take insubordination from the lower ranks. Home | Mail Online
• “In a prison where computers reign and the ultimate cost for insubordination is your memories, a light-hearted painter must cooperate with a dangerously intelligent stranger to escape.” Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Sharpening Your Concept With a Two-Sentence Synopsis
• He said at least 20 troops had been accused of insubordination initially, but the eight were the ‘brains’ behind the offense.
• A few days later, she says, she and a co-worker were both dismissed on the grounds of insubordination.
• The media have conferred on him the image of the victimised rebel, who was transported to a penal colony as the price of his principled insubordination.
• He had to make an example of the old man's insubordination, and make others fear to follow in his footsteps. WALL GAMES
• What will happen when the various divisions of this vast army of officials, united by interests common to officialism—the interests of the regulators versus those of the regulated—have at their command whatever force is needful to suppress insubordination and act as "saviours of society? Communist Economic Policy: Stalinism or the Red Army?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• Finally, one rainy Saturday afternoon, when we were tired of acting plays, and the rain pattered on the roof, and the wind howled and shook the casings, and there was a generally wild and disorganized state of affairs out of doors, a sympathetic spirit of insubordination appeared to awaken in Tina's bosom. Oldtown Folks
• They rest on a strict hierarchical structure in which insubordination is the highest crime. Deborah Meier: How Democratic Are Our Schools?
• If the accused is not dismissed, the good trooper will be dismayed and the malcontent and sorehead will be encouraged in his own insubordination.