What is "insubordination"

Usage examples of "insubordination".

Peter Hargrave who fired me for forgery and insubordination, and Stuart, I HAVE NO JOB!

As a matter of fact, Snider, it seemed to me, was taking advantage of every opportunity, however slight, to show insubordination, and I determined then that at the first real breach of discipline I should take action that would remind Snider, ever after, that I was still his commanding officer.

The temperamental telepaths had always to be handled carefully and Grimes did not wish to provoke the man into insubordination, with its inevitable consequences.

Wearily, not wanting to give the ultras around Lincoln the satisfaction of cashiering him for insubordination, McClellan assured Halleck that he would use all his skill in maneuver and logistics to bring his men safely north, if that was the President's final decision.

He relied on Skullion’s information but there was always the danger of condoning insubordination or at least encouraging a familiarity detrimental to good discipline.

Despite the uproar in the press about the disarray in the Cabinet, despite the charges of insubordination by antiabolition Congressmen, Simon Cameron had not been publicly or privately reprimanded by the President for the inflammatory paragraph in the annual message.

Officer Bowers displayed a marked tendency toward insubordination, which was dealt with, again in my opinion, appropriately.

The story rests on the sergeant's authority, and there seems no reason to doubt him, or Flashman - or for that matter, Doyle's poem, which only errs (possibly deliberately) in presenting Moyes as a young Kentish country boy, when in fact he was a fairly disreputable Scot, old enough, it is said, to have been broken from the rank of colour sergeant for insubordination - which seems characteristic.

Wallace asked, his voice somehow managing to convey contempt without crossing the line into insubordination.

Sacked for incompetence or insubordination as a stable-lad, bookshop assistant, roadmender, bellhop and delivery boy.

They saw the insubordinations, the failures to obey, the suspicious deaths of some of their commanding officers as the ideal background for members of a ruthless kidnap team—and the perfect cover for their own involvement.

We shall ignore thousands of infractions and insubordinations in the past, presumptions, and speakings and actions, and consider only the past few moments.

They saw the insubordinations, the failures to obey, the suspicious deaths of some of their commanding officers as the ideal background for members of a ruthless kidnap teamand the perfect cover for their own involvement.

What with arsenals pillaged, citadels invaded, convoys arrested, couriers stopped, letters intercepted, constant and increasing insubordination, usurpations without truce or measure, the municipalities arrogate to themselves every species of license on their own territory and frequently outside of it.

Once, on a particularly difficult night, I reported Vince's insubordination to David Hopkinson, the night editor, who was himself a formidable figure when he chose to be.