How To Use Insurrection In A Sentence

Some might say, at worst, armed insurrection. Times, Sunday Times
Throughout the whole insurrection not asingle imprisoned Communist was shot.
“Murmurs, discontent, insurrections, rebellion, would inevitably ensue,” with a likely result that “our present glorious Union itself would be dissevered or dissolved.” A Country of Vast Designs
In the Balkans these insurrections resulted in a gradual liberation of most of the oppressed peoples.
There was no exemption for those engaged in an armed insurrection and an armed struggle against a government. Times, Sunday Times

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With the establishment of strong dynasties, civil wars and baronial insurrections were quelled or kept under control.
Celebes has lately been successful, and the _campong_, where every hut was closed for a year in consequence of the local Rajah forcing his people to join in his insurrection, has at last been re-opened, though under a guard of Dutch and Malay troops. Through the Malay Archipelago
In both cases the target of the insurrection has ended up more entrenched in power than before. Times, Sunday Times
Nothing frightened slave-dependent societies more than the prospect of widespread slave insurrections.
The Bible calls him an insurrectionist and a murderer, so he was an imprisoned terrorist awaiting execution.
Second, mass incarceration serves to keep under near total control rebellious and potentially insurrectionary populations.
Security officials say they have evidence that Gadhafi—who bankrolled insurrections across West Africa, including Nigerian oil militants—funneled money to Boko Haram's most hostile leaders. New Attacks Threaten Nigeria's Future
insurrectionist" discourses that attempt to escape the common political traps and make conflict an end-in-itself. Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends
Son of Banquo, Fleance escapes Macbeth's murderous rampage and flees to England where he helps Macduff mount the insurrection that unthrones Macbeth.
They can't seem to really resist the Jewish leaders who want to accuse Paul of being insurrectionist.
They were under the general orders of Mola and Franco, the leaders of the military insurrection that had sparked the Spanish Civil War.
Eventually, however, we get to "domestic Insurrections amongst us," and here it comes, the phrase that distresses me so much after spending close to a decade meeting, and listening to, Native Americans, that I can barely stand to read it, nor type it. The Damaging Three Words of the Declaration of Independence
In both cases the target of the insurrection has ended up more entrenched in power than before. Times, Sunday Times
Years of discontent turned into armed insurrection.
Meanwhile, a revolutionary insurrection by a disaffected Kentish mob threatens to bring anarchy to London.
In both cases the target of the insurrection has ended up more entrenched in power than before. Times, Sunday Times
In Germany workers played a leading part in the 1848 insurrections.
There were four anarchists on the Military Revolutionary Committee which organised the insurrection in Petrograd.
As a basis for launching an 'insurrectionary' effort, it advocates the proliferation of communes. Red Pepper
(As to there being no insurrections, although the people share not in the management of public affairs, this is no proof of a well-constituted government, as the _kosmoi_ have no opportunity of being bribed like the ephori, as they live in an [1272b] island far from those who would corrupt them.) Politics: A Treatise on Government
insurrectionist" and anti-state communist peers merely stumble on their dirty-talk in front of the mirror. Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends
It was, in his opinion, the mixture of greed and ‘false theories’ that gave the insurrection its peculiar combustibility.
He was told that Egypt was on the verge of entering a civil insurrection that would bring it to a complete standstill. Times, Sunday Times
Moreover, the Left has tended to turn away from applause for insurrection - at least in so far as prospects for change in Britain are concerned.
The insurrectionists that we have oft complained of late have grown more bold in their depredations, attacking ever nearer to our palace.
Although advocating non-violent protest, it proposes insurrection as a last resort.
Clemency to the recently execrated terrorists marked the Convention's response to the Vendémiaire crisis, both in the build-up to the insurrection and in its aftermath.
There was no exemption for those engaged in an armed insurrection and an armed struggle against a government. Times, Sunday Times
For a short while, the police continued to insist that they had thwarted an armed insurrection.
Although advocating non-violent protest, it proposes insurrection as a last resort.
As for the "insurrectionist" basis of the seond amendment, Madison states it quite clearly in Federalist 46. When 1st and 2nd Amendment Conflict: Protests, Guns and Double Standards
The NRA leadership's constant dissemination of "insurrectionist" propaganda has been an inspiration for such statements. Josh Horwitz: What is the "Message" Behind Increased Gun Sales?
Stalin saw the organisers of the insurrection as reactionary nationalists who would stand in the way of future Soviet hegemony.
Lincoln reviewed recent riotous incidents, beginning with the Vicksburg gamblers, moving to Madison County's purported slave insurrection, and ending with McIntosh's grisly death.
After all, plebeians in ancient Rome were forced to fight against one another - the games of death were hardly an insurrectionary force on their own.
Additionally, the Bush administration and a majority of Members of Congress recently endorsed an "insurrectionist" reading of the Second Amendment in separate amicus briefs in the landmark Supreme Court case of District of Columbia v. Heller. Josh Horwitz: Lo Que es Bueno Para el Ganso...
Western intelligence agencies, they reasoned, had poured money into Ukrainian civil society groups that were then used as fronts to organize the insurrection.
Certainly, the sociological landscape is familiar - a nation in which an educated, privileged elite suppresses a servile, but restless underclass, giving rise to a growing insurrection.
The Maoist rebels have been waging a Marxist insurrection in Nepal for nine years to abolish the monarchy.
Such political behavior can manifest itself in strikes, violent demonstrations, insurrections, and revolutionary action.
The popular insurrection gave the government a much greater mandate than any election.
Soul on Ice, which combines a visceral hatred for America with black liberation theology, admissions about "insurrectionary" rape, a spiritual odyssey, and a search for personal meaning in a racist environment. Newsnet 14
In the past, Poland created its brand by mounting an armed insurrection against Russian rule, and then having romantic poets such as Adam Mickiewicz immortalise the martrydom of this "Christ among nations". Poland: a country getting to grips with being normal at last
One sector, led by the Ministry of Education and the Mayor of Caracas, called for a popular insurrection to defend the government.
Like many insurrectionary or protest movements, they brook little dissent within their ranks.
The troop wished to make an end of it, insurrection was desirous of fighting.
By 1803, he had teamed up with Robert Emmet and together they planned another insurrection.
Empire's dream of Atari Teenage Riot becoming some kind of gabba insurrectionist threat to the establishment never quiet transpired, but it was entertaining to watch them try. Prefix
according to the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, at least fifteen people had already been killed by practitioners of "insurrectionist" violence since the middle of 2008. The New Yorker
Some might say, at worst, armed insurrection. Times, Sunday Times
They are covering an insurrection of Parisian proletarians.
This war has greatly demoralised and discredited the governing class in Great Britain, and if big masses of unemployed and unfed people, no longer strung up by the actuality of war, masses now trained to arms and with many quite sympathetic officers available, are released clumsily and planlessly into a world of risen prices and rising rents, of legal obstacles and forensic complications, of greedy speculators and hampered enterprises, there will be insurrection and revolution. What is Coming?
We insurrectioned and, be the procuratress of the hory synnotts, before he could tell pullyirragun to parrylewis, I shuttm, missus, like a wide sleever! Finnegans Wake
Such "insurrectionist" philosophy is common among a small but vocal group of gun rights supporters. Josh Horwitz: The Game of Monopoly
Ingushetia is in the heart of this remote region where Islamic radicals are waging a slow-burning insurrection. Behind Moscow Airport Bomb, Insurgency Grinds On in Caucasus
When all the other conspirators were arrested it was left to him to carry through his part of the insurrection alone. ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
But with no sign of the promised agrarian reforms, landless agricultural workers joined the urban insurrectionary movement, seized the large farming estates and started developing them collectively.
The writer apprehends that the abstract right of insurrection on the one hand, and of self-conservation on the other, quite overbears, in so vast and momentous a debate, the narrow, technical, legal question: that which it does not overbear is the rightness or wrongness of the immediate motive, conduct, and aim of any particular insurrection and repression, considered individually. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866
Brown's attempt at servile insurrection
There was no exemption for those engaged in an armed insurrection and an armed struggle against a government. Times, Sunday Times
In 1920 British troops put down an insurrection in Iraq, and crushed protests and strikes in favour of independence in Egypt.
They've provided various kinds of sort of political infrastructure that has made the movement possible, kind of fanned the insurrection in various ways. The Brothers Koch: Rich, Political And Playing To Win
Papua New Guinea troops, backed by Australian logistical support, put down the insurrection.
It just astonishes me that anyone at Paramount could actually watch 'Generations' or 'Insurrection' and CONTINUE ALLOWING RICK BERMAN TO MAKE MOVIES. Revisiting Star Trek [Part 6 of 7]: The Films
It is not my part then, I think, to tak 'fro' ye - to be under obligations (as they say) to ye; and that day ye came to our house, and called me to t 'door, and offered me five shillings, which I doubt ye could ill spare, - for ye've no fortin', I know, - that day I war fair a rebel - a radical - an insurrectionist; and ye made me so. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
Sometimes the stories will recount epic events---wars and insurrection; the fall of dynasties. GALILEE
The ringing of the tocsin, notoriously the call to insurrection since the memorable journées of 1789, marked the seizure of power in the small hours of the tenth by the central committee of the sections.
The crowds -- counted in news tickers as "disappointing," on rightwing blogs as "insurrectionary" -- must be taken in the context of what may be the largest roundup operation in U.S. history. Michael Gould-Wartofsky: We All Live in Arizona: On May Day, ICE Dogs, and the Future of NYC (PHOTOS)
Reacting to the momentum of events, Lenin, from hiding, ordered preparations for an armed insurrection.
How can one fail to understand that this fraternisation, with all its razzle-dazzle, is an insult to everything new the recent insurrections have been able to bring to an Arab world crushed under the yoke--an insult to the youth of Tahrir Square in Cairo, who demonstrated for weeks on end without uttering the shadow of an anti-western, anti-American, or anti-Israeli slogan? Bernard-Henri Lévy: "Oh ! The Fools!"* (On a Palestinian Munich)
The fourteenth century is interesting for the awakening, especially in Italy, of literature and art; for the wars between the French and English, and the English and the Scots; for the rivalry between the Italian republics; for the efforts of Rienzi to establish popular freedom at Rome; for the insurrection of the Flemish weavers, under the Van Arteveldes, against their feudal oppressors; for the terrible "Jacquerie" in Paris; for the insurrection of Wat Beacon Lights of History
He sent out his summons to the “thirteen governors of the Zapotecs and Chontales” to come to his aid, and the insurrection threatened to assume formidable proportions, prevented only by bringing to bear upon the natives the whole power of the Roman Church through the Bishop of Nagualism A Study in Native American Folk-lore and History
We are not prepared for an armed insurrection.
The elders and rulers of the village met to determine the punishment for such insurrection, and Okonkwo was disgusted to see that the men of Mbanta were so womanish that they would not declare war against the Christians.
They may be hard to take seriously as radical insurrectionists, but Scotland's doctors are revolting.
They all despaired of obtaining it from the coalesced powers, whilst they had a gang of professed regicides at their head; and several of the least desperate republicans would have joined with better men to shake them wholly off, and to produce something more ostensible, if they had not been reiteratedly told that their sole hope of peace was the very contrary to what they naturally imagined: that they must leave off their cabals and insurrections, which could serve no purpose but to bring in that royalty which was wholly rejected by the coalesced kings; that, to satisfy them, they must tranquilly, if they could not cordially, submit themselves to the tyranny and the tyrants they despised and abhorred. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)
As it happens, summer mounted a last minute insurrection and the day was unreasonably hot, with everyone dressed for the wrong season and mopping their brows.
Then there was an insurrection in which the British killed 10,000 people.
The charges against Enrile arose from the abortive coup attempt of December 1989, the most serious military insurrection Aquino to date.
The insurrectionary municipal government sought to prevent a confrontation with the powers, but it was nevertheless committed to the unilateral abolition of the Foreign Concessions, and the threat remained.
Russia formed by the Volga basin in 1775 was described as "an asylum for malcontents and vagabonds of all kinds, ruined nobles, disfrocked monks, military deserters, fugitive serfs, highwaymen, and Volga pirates" -- disorderly elements which contributed greatly to the insurrection led by the Ural Cossacks in that year. [ Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
Whether it could be considered "insurrectionary" depended altogether on the pro-slavery or anti-slavery bias of the critic. Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02
This same policy was a few weeks later urged at Topeka, where a mass meeting of the free-State men was called to support and instruct another sitting of the "insurrectionary" free-State Legislature elected under the Topeka Constitution. Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02
Others say that it arose from their wearing a white shirt, or camise, over their dress, to enable them to distinguish each other in their night attacks; and that this was not the case, is partly countenanced by the fact that in the course of the insurrection a body of peasant royalists took the field, who designated themselves the The Huguenots in France
An agrarian insurrection swept across the region in the 1880s.
Jerzy Kolendo makes the case for skepticism in Uno spartaco sconosciuto nella Pompei osca: Le pitture della casa di Amando, Index 9 1980: 3340 and Spartacus sur une peinture osque de Pompei: Chef de la grande insurrection servile ou un gladiateur inconnu originaire de la Thrace? The Spartacus War
One hypothesis is that after years of being side-lined by movements around justice (global, social, economic, environmental, climate, or otherwise), a certain kind of insurrectionary politics returned to the center of the historical stage in Greece in 2008 and with the student revolts in 2009/2010 in the USA. Anarchist news dot org - Comments
Some might say, at worst, armed insurrection. Times, Sunday Times
The reign of civil disorder and terrorism culminated in armed insurrection.
In February 1917 economic strikes and food protests led by women fused into a general strike that drew the army into an insurrection.
The brutal suppression of the insurrection of the early 1980s was not an isolated incident.
The demands for moral reform were also directed at an incomprehensible, and apparently subversive and insurrectionary, urban culture that actually intensified through attempts at repression and prohibition.
In any case, the insurrection ended with negotiations and, without a shot being fired, the mutineers returned to their barracks with their weapons and explosives.
Instead he asked parliament for a temporary grant of special powers to deal with the aftermath of the insurrection.
In both cases the target of the insurrection has ended up more entrenched in power than before. Times, Sunday Times
Releasing the photos at that point would have run the risk of stirring up insurrectionists and undermining the new government.
He was told that Egypt was on the verge of entering a civil insurrection that would bring it to a complete standstill. Times, Sunday Times
Almost 40 years after its initial release it has tremendous resonance because it demonstrates the modus operandi of contemporary colonial oppression and reveals what gives rise to and fuels a nationalist insurrectionary movement.
The jacqueries, the peasants’ war, Stenka Razin, Pugachev, also Milan, Trieste, Lyon in 183o, and so forth-those were the great insurrections.
Added to that, guns, machine-guns, rifles, and ammunition, were run over into the plebiscite area, and a mercenary "insurrectionary" army was raised, partly from the local Polish population and partly from Poland proper. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921
It's a wave of violence that's cresting along with a tide of hateful, insurrectionist rhetoric that far too many conservatives refuse to condemn. Eric Boehlert: The Right's Rising Tide of Violent Rhetoric
The insurrection at Bordeaux against the gabel in 1548 was certainly more serious than that of Rochelle in 1542; but it is also quite certain that A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4
He successfully crushed a bloody insurrection by violent Islamists in the 1990s; he suppressed, brutally at times, a growing prodemocracy protest movement that gained steam in 2003 to 2005; and he parried until recently Washington's attempt to force substantive democratic reforms on Egypt, made most forcefully during the years of the George W. Bush administration. An Abrupt End to a Powerful Reign
Errahman, and Vizier and Sultan amuse themselves by undertaking plundering expeditions against insurrectionary tribes, whose sedition they first stimulate, and then quell, that is to say, by receiving from the unlucky rebels a handsome gratification. Travels in Morocco
An urban insurrection in Jerusalem was followed by a general uprising of the Jewish peasantry.
Insurrectionists, traitors and fifth columnists were a feature of our political landscape.
We're too cowardly to actually commit insurrection, and its impossibility becomes a grimly mocking reminder of our impotence.
And Lon McFane -- his face was hot and tongue rapid as he flaunted insurrection in the face of the Church. The Men of Forty Mile
Insurrection of Women, how foisonless, unedifying, undelightful; like small ale palled, like an effervescence that has effervesced! The French Revolution
1968 was the big year of revolt, its epicentre the student-led insurrection in Paris.
States homesteads on confiscated or forfeited estates in insurrectionary districts. Foreign and Colonial News
This was possible because of the efforts of the Philippine insurrectionists, who controlled most of the island.
(October Fifth), in Austrian prison, in Jacobin tribune, armed for insurrection (August Tenth), keeps her carriage, fustigated, insane. The French Revolution
As for Fidel Castro, he was the liberal insurrectionist and the freedom fighters were trying to take the land back. Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
_R.solved_, That the doctrine and sentiments of a certain book, called 'The Impending Crisis of the South -- How to meet it,' purporting to have been written by one Hinton R. Helper, are insurrectionary and hostile to the domestic peace and tranquility of the country, and that no Member of this House who has indorsed and recommended it, or the compend from it, is fit to be speaker of this House. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
It was hard to square his earlier talk of armed insurrection with this offer to act as a consultant to the British government. KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
Some of the most interesting photographs are of relics from the War of 1812 and a captured bell from the Philippine Insurrection of 1899.
Normandie, he returned againe into England, where he was no sooner arriued, but aduertisement was giuen him of a warre newlie begon with the Scots, whose king vnder a colour of obseruing the oth to the empresse, [Sidenote: The Scots inuade the English borders.] made dailie insurrections and inuasions into England, to the great disturbance of king Stephan and the annoiance of his people. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (4 of 12) Stephan Earle Of Bullongne
a lying traitorous insurrectionist
The brutal suppression of the insurrection of the early 1980s was not an isolated incident.
Yesterday, lawyers for Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador â€œturned in documented allegations of irregularities that they said cost him the July 2 presidential election, and a senior aide warned that Mexico faces an â€˜insurrectionâ€ ™ unless all 41 million ballots are recounted. â€ Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: July 10, 2006
Meanwhile, a revolutionary insurrection by a disaffected Kentish mob threatens to bring anarchy to London.
It was hard to square his earlier talk of armed insurrection with this offer to act as a consultant to the British government. KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
There was a terrible insurrection, called the Jacquerie, of the oppressed peasants against the nobles. A Parallel History of France and England; Consisting of Outlines and Dates
Murat lingered for some time in obscurity near Toulon; and, relanding on the coast of Naples after the King of the Two Sicilies had been re-established on that throne, in the vain hope of exciting an insurrection and recovering what he had lost, was seized, tried, and executed. The History of Napoleon Buonaparte
An insurrection by French resistance forces freed the city.
It has grown into a nationwide insurrection by disillusioned suburban youths.
The insurrection of five kulak districts should be pitilessly suppressed. Matthew Yglesias » Geithner on Nationalization
Fortunately for her and for Santa, the problem was obviated by one of the most extraordinary events in the record of this admittedly extraordinary chronicle: The Invasion of the Hard-boiled Eggs. The Origins of the DylanThomassist Insurrection Part the Eighth: The Meaning of Christmas « Unknowing
Imagine the band's shock when they gazed out across the crowd and instead of a wild-haired, mad-eyed, snotty-nosed insurrectionist rabble, they were greeted by nice smiles, polite applause and row upon row of well-pressed T-shirts.
The fact was that he had sold out certain stock, and every night took an intense delight in contemplating those ten thousand francs, gloating over them, and finding something quite roysterous and insurrectional in their appearance. The Fat and the Thin
There is a long history of sections of the army and even the police coming over to the side of the people during insurrections.
Police blamed the explosion on rebels waging an armed insurrection in the kingdom.
They were plotting to stage an armed insurrection.
They were what used to be called insurrectionists, but they probably wouldn't have minded being called Marxist and/or anarchist rebels, revolutionists, liberationists… you get the sort of thing.
She also led trading missions to south Munster and was involved in insurrectionary activities against the English. Gutenber-e Help Page
The insurrection swept the old government from office and could only be crushed by the might of the Russian army.
Yeah, good example, because those 3 American hikers are a serious threat to Iran, have fired thousands of rockets into souther Iran resulting in deaths, maiminings and the virtual shut down of at least one Iranian city, have pledged the destruction of Iran and the death of all Persians living there, import arms for that purpose, mount armed insurrections, and have powerful foreign sponsors only to eager to give them military and financial aid. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pollak on Uniquely Israeli Stupidity
His longest chapter is devoted to the Irish insurrection of 1641, an unpremeditated but also disorganised, unfocused and bloody effort to improve property rights and secure religious freedoms.
As far as the Empire was concerned, Gandhi was a troublemaker, an insurrectionist, and a traitor to the Empire.
Just as Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the Revolution in France" (1790) predicted a dire fate for the mass insurrection then aborning, Mr. Caldwell looks with alarm at Europe's continuing rejection of itself. Islam
Traditionally it was an area of peasant insurrectionists, schismatics, and sectarians whose acerbic style was reflected in Lenin's own.
Following the elections and with no sign of the promised agrarian reforms, movements in the countryside joined the insurrectionary situation in the cities.
You may have something approximated to armed insurrection or civil war, perhaps on the ground.
There will be mass defections, mass surrenders, insurrection.
That month, Beria sent a memorandum to Stalin, proposing that the officers should be shot in order to crush any potential insurrection.
Most of the uprisings were local insurrections against specific circumstances - usually the building of a castle or the exactions of a local Norman lord.
Traditionally it was an area of peasant insurrectionists, schismatics, and sectarians whose acerbic style was reflected in Lenin's own.
At this rate we could have government grants for insurrectionists.
The burning of the Reichstag was to be the signal for a bloody insurrection and civil war ... Remebering February 27
Since then the Irish capital has seen insurrection, civil war and voracious property development.
Along the eastern seaboard, army units were moved from northern states into the South to prevent suspected insurrection.
Instead he asked parliament for a temporary grant of special powers to deal with the aftermath of the insurrection.
Anyway, the local white ladies auxilliary got together and could see that this interloper was causing stirrings in the black community and possibly encouraging insurrectionist temperments so they, in a truly Southern fashion, held an afternoon tea (tea in South Alabama was actually LeJon Dry Sherry served in tea cups with finger sandwiches) and invite this woman over to intercede with her on behalf of the community. Questions and Concerns about Foreigners in Mexico
South Africa's government was by that time mired in an economic crisis and faced an insurrectionary mass movement of the black working class.
Unlike insurrectionists who resist government because it is repressive, vigilantes ‘take arms to do the government's work because the authorities are not repressive enough.’
The insurrection of five kulak districts should be pitilessly suppressed. Matthew Yglesias » Geithner on Nationalization
Reacting to the momentum of events, Lenin, from hiding, ordered preparations for an armed insurrection.
After that several of the city's western sections began to organize for an insurrection, their primary assemblies refusing the Convention's instructions to disband, and concerting defiant denunciations of its ballot-rigging.
However, international governing bodies can help to shed light on the relation of proper authority to revolutionary wars and political insurrections through their legitimacy-conferring function.
This law defined abolitionist petitions as agents of sedition and violent insurrection.
It was hard to square his earlier talk of armed insurrection with this offer to act as a consultant to the British government. KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
Polish nationalism burst into another full-blooded insurrection in 1863, but Russia was able to bring it under control because the Crimean coalition against her could no longer be put together.
Along the eastern seaboard, army units were moved from northern states into the South to prevent suspected insurrection.
Update: An investigation has begun as to who ordered the troops outside of their base in direct violation of the posse comitatus and insurrection acts. March « 2009 « Antiwar.com Blog
There were rumblings of insurrection and dissatisfaction at various levels.
If anything should jeopardise that freedom - an insurrection for instance - the Church, without hesitation, will condemn it.

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