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- disobedience
- noncompliance
- noncooperation
- rebellion
- recalcitrance
- insubordination
- rebelliousness
- unruliness
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Daemon chastising Ulf and Hugh over their disobedience, sowing the seeds of their discontent.
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The Catholic Church teaches that all other people are conceived with original sin as a result of Adam and Eve’s disobedience to God in the Garden of Eden.
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Over the past decade, the IRS has steadily narrowed the avenues through which international taxpayers can resolve past tax noncompliance without facing penalties.
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And noncompliance should be publicly reported to give companies a greater incentive to follow the rules.
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In accordance with the county’s noncooperation policy, the Fairfax County Sheriff’s Office, which oversees the county’s jail, did not honor a 2023 federal detention request to hold Jalloh in pretrial detention until ICE could assume custody.
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Boycotts are a form of mass noncooperation that enables more people to resist without taking time off from work, engaging in confrontation or risking arrest.
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Amid a rebellion over the SAVE Act, Johnson lost control of the House floor for a second time this week, sending lawmakers home early for the July Fourth recess.
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These battles have completely receded from the American imagination, even though, in some ways, the American rebellion was a sideshow to a far greater imperial drama.
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Yet his recalcitrance also runs the risk of costly retribution.
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As Holland recently alluded to in an interview with the Kings’ Zach Dooley and Jared Shafran, that recalcitrance could complicate the Kings’ timeline.
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Williamson later ran afoul of the SSPX, which expelled him in 2012 for insubordination.
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Lugo also had filed insubordination charges against him.
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Marji’s rebelliousness, both admirable and terrifying for those who love her, is her salient characteristic.
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The pseudo-goth hair and costume choices speak to an inner rebelliousness that isn’t so much unleashed as forced loose by a system that values the appearance of a mythical impartiality over her humanity, leaving her with little recourse but to step outside the confines of the law.
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In 2024, Buffett offered prescient reflections on the unruliness of the market, long before the prediction markets began to sway Wall Street.
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Their sprawl and unruliness, their capacity to be anything.
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“Recusancy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/recusancy. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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