[ US /nɑnˈvaɪəɫənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. achieved without bloodshed
    an unbloody transfer of power
  2. abstaining (on principle) from the use of violence
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How To Use nonviolent In A Sentence

  • Though reportorial and detailed, they took a nonjudgmental stance toward their generally nonviolent subjects.
  • Feeling part of a larger community of like-minded nonviolent protestors, I felt buoyed up by the possibility of triumph over injustice.
  • Such a government should include members drawn from the existing parliament, the nonviolent opposition movement and rebel leader Kabila himself.
  • A dog can bite you but you must not bite the dog! Your every movement in life must be peaceful; otherwise you lose your ethical superiority! Nonviolent civil disobedience is a genius; no power can beat it; use it when necessary! Mehmet Murat ildan 
  • They find the emergence of "supermax" prisons and harsh "zero tolerance" polices for nonviolent drug offenders profoundly troubling.
  • Though the bishop went on to explain that the struggle is a spiritual one and the means nonviolent, he announced an apocalyptic struggle against evil “that may rival any in time past.” Pope John Paul II
  • A dog can bite you but you must not bite the dog! Your every movement in life must be peaceful; otherwise you lose your ethical superiority! Nonviolent civil disobedience is a genius; no power can beat it; use it when necessary! Mehmet Murat ildan 
  • NORM STAMPER: Not vetoing a decision to use chemical agents, also known as teargas, against hundreds of nonviolent demonstrators. Democracy Now!
  • Germany and Japan have both been peaceful, nonviolent countries ever since they were bombed to smithereens in WWII.
  • And it was Lewis who fought, unsuccessfully, to keep the movement grounded in its nonviolent, integrationist roots. Matthew Yglesias » Glenn Beck Denounces Civil Rights Activist John Lewis For Comparing Himself to Civil Rights Activist John Lewis
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