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Meanings of nonviolent resistance in English
Russian
ненасильственное сопротивление Portuguese
resistência não violenta Spanish
resistencia pasiva Catalan
resistència no-violenta 
Practice of achieving goals through nonviolent methods.
Related terms
Portuguese
resistência não violenta Catalan
resistència passiva Peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate.
Synonyms
Examples for "nonviolence"
Examples for "nonviolence"
1
The past week of anti-regime protests has been notable for their nonviolence.
2
When Jesus talked about nonviolence, we should take him at his word.
3
They shouted slogans praising India's independence hero and the apostle of nonviolence.
4
They are working to create avenues of nonviolence in this community.
5
The fact that his overt nonviolence was met with irreparable brutality is important.
1
For quiet, aggravating obstinacy and passive resistance, recommend me to a monk.
2
It's sometimes difficult to make the case for the efficacy of passive resistance.
3
He then led Indians in a passive resistance to the country's race laws.
4
The old Finnish party has adopted the policy of passive resistance and protest.
5
She behaves in a spoiled manner, frequently complains or uses passive resistance techniques.
Usage of nonviolent resistance in English
1
These ghetto residents had not been schooled in the tactics of nonviolent resistance.
2
To the contrary, nonviolent resistance was the way of the strong.
3
Gandhi taught us nonviolent resistance, and Bill Gates came up with the chip.
4
Both stressed that nonviolent resistance was not to be an excuse for cowardice.
5
India defeated the greatest empire in history using Gan -dhian noncooperation and nonviolent resistance.
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As the example suggests, they saw property destruction as a perfectly legitimate means of nonviolent resistance.
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Not only did they challenge the tactics of nonviolent resistance, they disagreed totally with its goals.
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I'd given up the fight, choosing instead nonviolent resistance, simply scratching the bites every now and then.
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King believed in nonviolent resistance both as a tactic and as a philosophy-bothas means and end:
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On the philosophical level, King said that nonviolent resistance was the key to building a new world.
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When laws, themselves, were unjust, nonviolent resistance could engage in civil disobedience as a means of challenging those laws.
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Despite King's advocacy of nonviolent resistance, the days immediately following his death were marked by rioting in several American cities.
13
A Force More Powerful will initially be distributed on CD, accompanied by extensive documentation and research material on nonviolent resistance.
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King made it clear that nonviolent resistance was concerned with morality and justice and not merely with obtaining specific goals.
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But the Syrian people as a whole are realizing that nonviolent resistance to oppression is nonsectarian by nature, the source said.
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A Force More Powerful is the follow-up to a PBS documentary on the history of nonviolent resistance that aired in 2000.
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