passive resistance
Example Sentences
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Let's hope we see more passive resistance coming from the rest of the federal employees.
From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2024
The group’s fliers, quoting from Goethe, Schiller, Aristotle, Lao Tzu and the Bible, urged passive resistance and sabotage of the Nazi project.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
District Judge Marco A. Hernandez barred police from firing less-lethal FN303 and 40-mm launchers and using pepper spray on people engaged in passive resistance.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
He took his pacifism to the civil rights movement, where he helped solidify the Gandhi-like strategy of passive resistance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2022
As we all know, nonviolence and passive resistance would eventually spread through the world, inspiring Martin Luther King, Jr., in the fight for civil rights in America.
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
