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How to use the word insubordination in a Sentence?

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If the reporting in Woodward’s book is accurate, it represents a disgraceful and unprecedented act of insubordination by the Nation’s top military officer.

Director Christopher Miller

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is a very risky wave of insubordination, this is an uncalculated move with unpredictable consequences.

Tihomir Bezlov

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Religious beliefs cannot shield any employee from the consequences of poor judgment and insubordination.

Jenna Garland

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Insubordination tears at the fabric of public safety especially when the officer makes a choice not to follow a lawful order, in imposing the discipline of termination, I considered the seriousness of the acts and omissions, aggravating circumstances and Officer Dear's disciplinary record.

Police Chief Gorden Eden

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Unfortunately,' Mockingjay - Part 1' has all the personality of an industrial film, there's not a drop of insolence, insubordination or insurrection running through its veins ; it feels like a manufactured product through and through, ironic and sad given its revolutionary theme.

Todd McCarthy

Found on CNN
9 years ago

It citizenship would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other state whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, andwithout obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of the law for which a white man would be punished it citizenship would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went. And all this would be done in the face of the subject race of the same color, both free and slaves, inevitably producing discontent and insubordination among them, and endangering the peace and safety of the State.

Roger B. Taney

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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