noncooperation

Example Sentences

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This weekend America saw how deadly the consequences of noncooperation can be.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 26, 2026

As recently as the noncooperation movement in 1920-22, women played a far more circumscribed role.

From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025

Black leather unmistakably communicates noncooperation with a formal or clean-cut dress code; it telegraphs insouciance, skepticism, jadedness.

From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2023

The doctrine of ahimsa, or non- harming—a key idea in Indian philosophy and religion—constrains how one may disobey the government and even governs all interactions in the process of nonviolent noncooperation with the government.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Knowing Bobby’s penchant for noncooperation with authority figures, he might well have been incarcerated more for his attitude than anything else.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady