passive resistance
noun
opposition to a government or to specific governmental laws by the use of noncooperation and other nonviolent methods, as economic boycotts and protest marches.
passive resister
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a word derived from
passive resistance.
Example Sentences
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Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax was India's kindly Viceroy in Saint Gandhi's brightest days as India's great passive resister.
From Time Magazine Archive
A passive resister rather than a rebel, always intimidated by his big, bumbling father, he decided at last on a Church career.
From Time Magazine Archive
He always assumes the rôle of passive resister, and is always defeated with ignominy.
From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by T. R. Swinburne
Ewart gave me all my first conceptions of socialism; in a little while I was an enthusiastic socialist and he was a passive resister to the practical exposition of the theories he had taught me.
From Tono Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
I had to turn passive resister before I could be taken.
From Third class in Indian railways by Mahatma Gandhi
