disobedience
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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.”
The act of disobedience in the southern city of Marseille comes amid an uproarious climate of protest in France sparked by President Emmanuel Macron’s push to increase the French retirement age from 62 to 64.
From Seattle Times
If the government did not agree to discuss these by a deadline of 1600 GMT on April 24, they would step up their campaigns, which would include unspecified civil disobedience.
From Reuters
Pearson and Jones, 27, did not deny that their protest had violated the legislature’s rules of decorum, but Pearson described it as a “peaceful act of civil disobedience” in a New York Times column Wednesday.
From Washington Post
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