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Writing days before Abdullah's death, the American author Stephen Kinzer warned that the basis of the west's relationship with the Saudi regime was shifting in fundamental ways, while Saudi Arabia's position in a region beset by insurrection and civil war was ever less secure.
Muslim dismay at Tony Blair's co-invasion of Iraq in 2003 did not sway that decision, though it could be argued that anti-war sentiment inhibited proper post-invasion occupation planning and encouraged the Sunni insurrection against both invaders and Shia Muslims.
The voters' insurrection affected both those countries in financial meltdown and those having to stump up to bail them out and save the euro.
Little of this was reflected at the time in the mainstream media, which mostly portrayed the strike as an anti-democratic insurrection led by a ranting megalomaniac in defiance of economic logic.
There was much that was miserable about the time - Tory rule, recession - and although it seems faintly absurd now, rave culture seemed a force for change and insurrection ; certainly enough for the gov-ernment to bring in the Criminal Justice Act to crack down on illegal parties.
The text of the draft she arrived with in Brighton, written hard on the heels of the previous week's Labour conference, shows that she intended to claim that Kinnock had vainly tried, in her words, to persuade his party that "the way to gain power was through the ballot box, not through insurrection.
There was a great north-south divide during the strike, and a lot of people reacted against what Margaret Thatcher called 'Mr Scargill's insurrection ' - the notion that they were the enemy within.
The 1984 Brighton bomb forced Margaret Thatcher to tear up what would have been the most divisive speech of her premiership, in which she planned to accuse not only militant miners but the entire Labour party of being "the enemy within" and part of an "insurrection " against democracy.
The drafts, some of which have been taped back together, show she intended to warn that the country was facing nothing less than "an insurrection " and that "our country is not to be torn apart by an extension of the calculated chaos planned for the mining industry by a handful of trained Marxists and their fellow travellers".
It may yet amplify its effect across a Europe uncommonly volatile and vulnerable to a Grillo-style insurrection.
Even the French intelligence services, the Renseignements Généraux, joined in, producing their own report, which described the riots as a "popular insurrection " and downplayed the role of Islamist groups and the immigrant origins of the rioters.
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Insurrection functions primarily as a noun, denoting a state or act of revolt. Examples from Ludwig show it used to describe historical events, political unrest, and even metaphorical uprisings. Ludwig AI confirms its grammatical correctness.
Expression frequency: Very common
