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The Great Escape The standout stunt in bank holiday classic The Great Escape sees Steve McQueen's brooding, baseball-obsessed PoW – nicknamed "The Cooler King" because his insubordination to his Nazi captors constantly lands him in solitary confinement – steal a Triumph motorbike and try to jump a barbed wire fence on the German-Swiss border.
But others look as if they will make a party that has a talent for insubordination even harder for its leaders to boss around.David Cameron began the conference by introducing "Webcameron", an internet site where the curious can download video clips of the Conservative leader talking about politics while he potters about his house in west London.
"A strategy that does not leave Afghanistan in a stable position is probably a short-sighted strategy".The charge of insubordination sizzled rapidly through the media and up the chain of command.
She decided that a big part of the problem was that, in the Koran and in certain tribal cultures, violence is considered a just remedy for female insubordination.
In the past year alone they have heard tales of incessant corruption and insubordination in the foreign ministry, learned how a politician manipulated foreign policy for profit, and watched a newsreel which showed officials in their Chinese consulate allowing Chinese police to haul off would-be defectors from what they know is a vile North Korean regime.
And yet, although news was sought after, it would take weeks or months to reach far-flung outposts, which fuelled rumour and insubordination by commanders and diplomats unsympathetic to the line at home.Ms Polasky demonstrates how wandering radicals were also vital to the spread of ideas.
His haughty response prompted Mr Dahal's action.The general's insubordination conceals a more serious disagreement: over how to dispose of the Maoists' former fighters.
The president has also suspended Pagan Amum, the SPLM's secretary-general, in contravention of the party's constitution, and imposed a travel and media ban on him pending an investigation into charges of mismanagement of party affairs and insubordination.
He directly represents the 5m people of Sverdlovsk province, a touch more than the entire population of Norway, and indirectly more than 23m, in the Urals Economic Association, a regional grouping which he heads.The thick-set 61-year-old governor, a former construction boss, has a history of insubordination.
The second is that the euro zone is deeply divided over how to deal with the insubordination of Greek voters and whether it can withstand the shock of a Greek departure from the currency union.
It has demonstrated the costs of insubordination to Russians; and, since he thinks Ukraine's government is merely a puppet of the West (the supposed will of its people being, to his ultracynical mind, merely a cover for Western intrigues), the conflict has usefully shown who is boss in Russia's backyard.
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The word "insubordination" functions primarily as a noun , denoting the quality or state of being insubordinate; that is, disobedient to lawful authority. Ludwig AI confirms this usage in various contexts, describing actions and situations related to defiance or resistance.
Expression frequency: Very common
