Passive Resistance Definition

noun
Opposition to a government or occupying power by refusal to comply with orders, or by such nonviolent acts as voluntary fasting or public demonstrations.
Webster's New World
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  • Thereupon the power of church and state enforced by positive enactments the passive resistance of old institutions to the novel theories.

  • And the passive resistance of those who refused to conform at length gave rise to active opposition.

  • A period followed of arbitrary government on the one hand and of stubborn passive resistance on the other.

  • The captured passes were therefore fortified (as Feng-hwang-cheng had been) for passive resistance.

  • The attitude of passive resistance is, however, still maintained, and has affected the position of the duchy of Brunswick.

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