Garner became the Gandhi of loosies, offering only the most passive resistance as the police moved to arrest him.
For years Mandela had been urging the ANC to abandon its strict policy of passive resistance.
He wrote the words he hoped would inspire his people to passive resistance.
And as passive resistance was their attitude, his purging scheme was abortive.
To all these measures a "passive resistance" was organised in Finland.
passive resistance was the order and the practice of the day.
There has been, as we have already seen, an epidemic of passive resistance.
The sword of passive resistance does not require a scabbard.
Reader: You have said that passive resistance is a speciality of India.
Pecuniary ambition and passive resistance cannot well go together.
A technique of demonstrating opposition to a government's activities simply by not cooperating with them. It is particularly associated with Mahatma Gandhi, who opposed violent revolution in his own country's fight for independence. (Compare civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance.)
