disobedience

Example Sentences

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Afterwards, Gandhi presided over waves of civil disobedience protests, encouraging supporters of the Indian National Congress to manufacture contraband salt, boycott foreign goods, and face down phalanxes of lathi-wielding policemen.

From BBC

As the Manual for Courts-Martial puts it, disobedience is “at the peril of the subordinate.”

From The Wall Street Journal

They point out Xi faced his own protests at the end of last year, in a rare show of civil disobedience over COVID-19 restrictions.

From Reuters

“Confessions that replace a defendant’s name with a natural-sounding noun or pronoun do not give rise to an overwhelming probability of juror disobedience,” she said.

From New York Times

Frustration drove one father to do a long hunger strike outside parliament and other climate activists to launch civil disobedience campaigns.

From Reuters