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  • Even as the music industry ship continues to sink, it has had to deal with mutineering musicians.

    The Wind in Kid Rock's Sales?: Julian Sancton Sancton, Julian 2008

  • I choose Columbia from Rocky Horror, already a two-time victim trying desperately to escape the mutineering Transylvanians when she's shot in the back with a gardening tool.

    The one you might have saved Arbogast 2008

  • Miss Newcome had to take the command of the whole of this demented household, hysterical mamma and sister, mutineering servants, and shrieking abandoned nursery, and bring young people and old to peace and quiet.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • South Africa is monitoring the situation in the Ivory Coast where mutineering soldiers have apparently ousted president Henri Konan

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Maope rejected this claim, saying it had to be dealt with under the country's legal processes, especially the country's Defence Act which prohibits mutineering.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Lesotho's self-styled police crisis mediators on Monday criticised a meeting between a South African Foreign Affairs envoy and Lesotho's Defence Force commander prior to a military operation to flush out mutineering policemen from Lesotho's police headquarters.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • The mutineering police took control of the Maseru police headquarters and dismissed the commissioner and his deputy.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

  • Two policemen were on Wednesday acquitted by a Johannesburg magistrate of assaulting mutineering policemen during a revolt over racism at Soweto's Orlando police station in January last year.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Soweto's District Police Commissioner on Friday afternoon ordered the release of mutineering policemen arrested at the Orlando police station earlier in the day.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

  • "You are probably also aware that the aforementioned Arata is currently in the eastern sectors of the capital, leading a mutineering army of slaves, shedding considerable quantities of noble blood -- and he still disposes over sufficient money and arms."

    Hard to be a god Strugatski, Arkadi & Strugatski, Boris 1973

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