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  • 11civil disobedience — noun a group s refusal to obey a law because they believe the law is immoral (as in protest against discrimination) Thoreau wrote a famous essay justifying civil disobedience • Hypernyms: ↑direct action • Hyponyms: ↑sit in, ↑protest march * * *… …

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  • 12Civil disobedience — For other uses, see Civil disobedience (disambiguation). Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a figure known worldwide for advocating non violent civil disobedience. Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and …

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  • 13Mutiny — For other uses, see Mutiny (disambiguation). Mutiny is a conspiracy among members of a group of similarly situated individuals (typically members of the military; or the crew of any ship, even if they are civilians) to openly oppose, change or… …

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  • 14Jahangir — For people named Jahangir Khan, see Jahangir Khan (disambiguation). For the rebel against Qing rule in Kashgar, see Jahangir Khoja. Jahangir …

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  • 15Investiture Controversy — Struggle between the papacy and the secular rulers of Europe over the latter s presentation of the symbols of office to churchmen. Pope Gregory VII condemned lay investiture in 1078 as an unjustified assertion of secular authority over the… …

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  • 16Germany — /jerr meuh nee/, n. a republic in central Europe: after World War II divided into four zones, British, French, U.S., and Soviet, and in 1949 into East Germany and West Germany; East and West Germany were reunited in 1990. 84,068,216; 137,852 sq.… …

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  • 17Union of Soviet Socialist Republics — a former federal union of 15 constituent republics, in E Europe and W and N Asia, comprising the larger part of the former Russian Empire: dissolved in December 1991. 8,650,069 sq. mi. (22,402,200 sq. km). Cap.: Moscow. Also called Russia, Soviet …

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  • 18contempt — con·tempt /kən tempt/ n 1: willful disobedience or open disrespect of the orders, authority, or dignity of a court or judge acting in a judicial capacity by disruptive language or conduct or by failure to obey the court s orders; also: the… …

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  • 20mutiny — mu|ti|ny [ˈmju:tıni US tn i] n plural mutinies [U and C] [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: mutine to refuse to obey (16 17 centuries), from French mutiner, from meute refusal to obey , from Latin movere to move ] when soldiers, ↑sailors, etc refuse to… …

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