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civil disobedience

noun as in passive resistance

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The stalemate has elicited protests, civil disobedience and arrests on Capitol Hill and beyond.

I am not for one second suggesting that my swim was some grand act of civil disobedience.

They say they are ready for civil disobedience and will not change any of their programs to comply with the law, which bans the depiction of homosexuality to minors.

The groups said they are prepared to engage in civil disobedience to challenge the law.

As I just mentioned, because this uprising is leaderless the civil disobedience movement will continue until this attempted coup ends.

From Time

Saint Louis City police also spent $325,000 upgrading helmets, sticks and other civil disobedience equipment.

Visitors like Sun have never seen civil disobedience practiced in real life.

Shoppers from Mainland China arrived in droves, and gained front row seats to civil disobedience in action.

He laid the blame firmly on meddling by foreign powers sowing civil disobedience.

But all Americans practice libertarian civil disobedience already, on their IRS forms.

But I have found to my cost that civil disobedience requires far greater preliminary training and self-control.

Trust in our government will end the current civil disobedience.

As the Congress had not then sanctioned civil disobedience, he did not break that order.

Both were trained at civil disobedience through looting their own state and factories.

Therefore those who offer civil disobedience for the sake of establishing Swaraj must know hand-spinning.

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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to civil disobedience, such as: protest march, noncooperation, nonviolent resistance, protest, and resistance movement.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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