passive resistance

In some ways his whole life was an act of passive resistance toward it.

Following the war of 1848-1849, the whole country was in "passive resistance".

They fell behind because of a passive resistance movement against the French.

He's no longer practicing passive resistance in the middle of a food fight.

Your own soldiers seem to be practicing a kind of passive resistance.

The most important aspect of the training was the emphasis on passive resistance.

Within the classroom too teachers have to live with an active or passive resistance to their best efforts.

There was a quality of passive resistance about her that seemed unexpectedly strong.

Michael's journey to this ultimate form of passive resistance is well told.

We advised the population about ways of spreading passive resistance.

It was a call to a war of passive resistance: tenants refused to move.

"Only in the very extreme would one consider passive resistance or something stronger," he told me.

There had also been some passive resistance to the policy of the Overlords.

"So she would have gained nothing by passive resistance," a black one concluded.

So she stopped trying to play passive resistance games.

Dodging the draft was passive resistance to traditional military service.

If a fascist dictator takes over, then passive resistance is the only course.

The occupation was initially greeted by a campaign of passive resistance.

White is also associated with peace and passive resistance.

In a word he preaches passive resistance, though with some exceptions.

With its emphasis on passive resistance, the student movement gave the civil rights struggle a new energy, focus and language.

Sally may be trying to do them a favor, but their passive resistance is frustrating.

He hadn't felt especially noble, the way people who used passive resistance were supposed to.

I sense an atmosphere of passive resistance,' he said.

Consequently, passive resistance was called off in late 1923.