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How to use passive resistance in a sentence

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The Albanians staged a war of passive resistance, forming their own schools and health clinics.
This passive resistance to change was the despair of the improving landowner, who tended to relapse into apathy after a few years of vain effort.
He organized protest marches and other tools of non-violent passive resistance.
When the hawk bated, the volunteer explained that he was mad and provided passive resistance.
The new third load path increases passive resistance to shocks, thereby ensuring maximum protection for the vehicle occupants.
Michael's journey to this ultimate form of passive resistance is well told.
Submission is a form of passive resistance and in no way should lead to later incriminations that the victim gave their consent.
And then, domestically, there's a sort of silent, passive resistance on the part of the population that's been going on there for fifty years.
In this reporting period, the CEW was used on three subjects displaying passive resistance and on four subjects displaying cooperative behavior.
Garner became the Gandhi of loosies, offering only the most passive resistance as the police moved to arrest him.
This is where Gandhi developed his concept of satyagraha, translated in the west as passive resistance that, in the end, influenced the whole of the colonial world.
From the 1920s to early 1940s, he led a series of passive resistance campaigns in pursuit of Swaraj, which redefined the character of Indian nationalism.
The shires are up in arms, with many staging a campaign of passive resistance, only prepared to pay reasonable inflation-linked increases to their bills.
But I propose a course of passive resistance.
With respect to CED's, including the TASER, we are recommending, subject to the situational factors, that they not be used against subjects who are demonstrating only passive resistance.
He's passive resistance covered in barbed wire.
Nevertheless, it should be mentioned that the initial reaction of a good number of personnel in the Forest Service towards the WAJIB approach was sceptical, and passive resistance could be encountered.
One is sometimes astonished to see that, as soon as a friar is elected for a given office, there is a certain lack of collaboration on the part of some and even passive resistance on the part of others.
Closely linked to a strategy of denial is the choice between territorial defence, which is purely military, or total defence which involves long-term action, including passive resistance, by the civilian population.
The problem is further compounded by passive resistance on the part of customs clearance agents, who have no incentive to see clearance automated.
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And as passive resistance was their attitude, his purging scheme was abortive.
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