He also called for a campaign of civil disobedience against Government's cuts.
The Sun (2012)
Direct action, civil disobedience - all of these things are in the melting pot at the moment.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
He became a leader in the youth wing, helping to push for boycotts, strikes and civil disobedience.
The Sun (2013)
He said he did not know whether the monks would return to street protests, or to a more long-term civil disobedience campaign.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
BRITAIN will be hit by a wave of protests, civil disobedience and strikes over cuts this year, a union chief has warned.
The Sun (2011)
It all adds up to a strong presumption that unless there's a clear family resemblance to the civil rights movement, civil disobedience is simply beyond the pale.
Christianity Today (2000)
In other languages
disobedience
British English: disobedience NOUN
Disobedience is deliberately not doing what someone tells you to do, or what a rule or law says that you should do.
A single act of rebellion or disobedience was often enough to seal a woman's fate.
American English: disobedience
Brazilian Portuguese: desobediência
Chinese: 不服从
European Spanish: desobediencia
French: désobéissance
German: Ungehorsam
Italian: disubbidienza
Japanese: 不服従
Korean: 불복종
European Portuguese: desobediência
Latin American Spanish: desobediencia
Chinese translation of 'disobedience'
disobedience
(dɪsəˈbiːdɪəns)
n(u)
不服从(從) (bù fúcóng)
(noun)
Any further disobedience will be severely punished.
Synonyms
defiance
his courageous defiance of the government
mutiny
A series of mutinies in the armed forces destabilized the regime.
indiscipline
revolt
insubordination
The two men were fired for insubordination.
waywardness
infraction
recalcitrance
noncompliance
unruliness
nonobservance
Additional synonyms
in the sense of insubordination
The two men were fired for insubordination.
Synonyms
disobedience,
rebellion,
defiance,
revolt,
mutiny,
insurrection,
indiscipline,
sedition,
recalcitrance,
ungovernability,
riotousness,
mutinousness
in the sense of mutiny
Definition
open rebellion against authority, esp. by sailors or soldiers against their officers
A series of mutinies in the armed forces destabilized the regime.