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passive resistance

resistance to a government, law, etc., made without violence, as by fasting, demonstrating peacefully, or refusing to cooperate
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passive resistance

see SOCIAL MOVEMENTS.
Collins Dictionary of Sociology, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2000
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Aiming to compensate for the issue of large passive resistances when implementing subthreshold biasing, we have developed a resistance-free IA solution.
22, 1894, he confounded the Natal Indian Congress in my hometown, where he pioneered Satyagraha--truth through passive resistance, which he later would use to lead India to freedom from the British.
Israel-Cohen points out their two strategies: passive resistance, which tries to avoid clashes with the rabbis, and active resistance, which causes some harsh clashes with the rabbinic establishment.
of the passive resistance to the Israeli occupation.
They are also notable for Karales' high level of access to events that were not publicly seen (astonishing pictures of SNCC passive resistance training, for instance).
Use of police brutality is even more objectionable in light of the passive resistance offered by the residents.
Ironically, Benziger writes, "the state's negative interpretation of the Revolution and its official acts of prohibition" actually "helped sustain the Revolution's memory in both acts of passive acceptance and passive resistance to the state's interpretation" (p.
Gandhi is admired for passive resistance to laws that he opposed and eventually he won over the masses.
The nationalists' theoretically passive resistance had made confrontations much more likely; Dyer's order to fire was 'a sudden reaction to the size and composition of the crowd' which numbered 25,000 (much larger than earlier estimates) while his troops numbered 50.
The minimum locking torque specified was at least 50 N-m of knee flexion torque [17] during stance, and the maximum passive resistance from pressure losses through the opened valve was specified to not exceed 1 N-m.
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