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Meanings of passive resistance in anglès

portuguès
resistência não violenta
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resistència passiva

Peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate.

resistència passiva
Usage of passive resistance in anglès
1
For quiet, aggravating obstinacy and passive resistance, recommend me to a monk.
A Siren
2
It's sometimes difficult to make the case for the efficacy of passive resistance.
The Irish Times
3
He then led Indians in a passive resistance to the country's race laws.
Reuters
4
The old Finnish party has adopted the policy of passive resistance and protest.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 21 / The Recent Da...
5
She behaves in a spoiled manner, frequently complains or uses passive resistance techniques.
Sisterhood of Dune
6
The master lamented the passive resistance she opposed to all their curative methods.
Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda)
7
Parihaka was the centre of passive resistance to the Crown in the mid-1800s.
Radio NZ
8
There had also been some passive resistance to the policy of the Overlords.
Childhood's End
9
Popular mobilisation, various agitations and passive resistance lay somewhere in between.
The Irish Times
10
Her whole weight of passive resistance was set against his purpose.
Gone to Earth
11
No one ever saw any brute oppose a merely passive resistance to attack.
The Navy as a Fighting Machine
12
Her capacity for passive resistance is enormous-Napoleonlearned that, and so did Frederick.
Essays on Russian Novelists
13
All efforts to directly communicate with the keepers were met with mute, passive resistance.
Revelation
14
Notwithstanding the passive resistance of Czech deputies, the parliament continued to meet in Vienna.
Independent Bohemia / An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle f...
15
This last turn of matters justified in some measure the system of passive resistance.
The History of Rome, Book III / From the Union of Italy to the S...
16
Eventually the press officer comes between Cave's gale-force windmill limbs and my passive resistance.
The Guardian
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