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nonviolent

adjective as in peaceful

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The bipartisan measure eased certain federal sentences by addressing disparities in drug penalties and giving judges added flexibility in sentencing nonviolent offenders.

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That attorney turned out to be Brittany Barnett, who has had success obtaining clemency for inmates facing life sentences for nonviolent drug-related offenses.

One strategy you could use is “nonviolent communication,” suggested Sabrina Romanoff, a New York City-based psychologist who specializes in relationships and life transitions.

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Boston’s nonviolent abolitionists failed spectacularly on their own terms.

He spent two years studying the role of musical activity in the nonviolent anti-Soviet uprisings of the Baltic States during the Perestroika era, publishing his research in English and Latvian.

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