noncooperation

Example Sentences

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Mr. Morales-Ortez was free because prosecutors had dropped new malicious-wounding charges, citing victim noncooperation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 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

The Program of Action approved at the annual conference called for the pursuit of political rights through the use of boycotts, strikes, civil disobedience, and noncooperation.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela