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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 "nvr"
Examples for "nvr"
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Froggie: It ws hrd 4 me bc my famy nvr saw me as a frg.
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While often the most marginalized by war and violence, women are also at the forefront of creative and innovative nonviolent action.
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That letter was addressed to the six Alabama clergymen who had denounced his tactics of direct, nonviolent action. Sweat gathered in Staples' graying eyebrows.
Usage of nonviolent resistance in English
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These ghetto residents had not been schooled in the tactics of nonviolent resistance.
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To the contrary, nonviolent resistance was the way of the strong.
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Gandhi taught us nonviolent resistance, and Bill Gates came up with the chip.
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Both stressed that nonviolent resistance was not to be an excuse for cowardice.
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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.
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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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