How To Use Pacifist In A Sentence

Just because the American people are disgusted with higher taxes, bigger government, left wing liberal give away policies and pacifist foreign policy attitudes, this idiot thinks the Tea Party activist is in someway trying to bring the country down. Clinton warns against violent anti-government attitude
The BBC correspondent says anti - piracy mission is controversial in Japan because of its pacifist post - War constitution.
He became a Bren gunner and was taught to kill - a far cry from his Christian pacifist background.
Lord of the Rings, the tale of a pacifist-turned-assassin lugging a rifle to a dictator's heartland in order to get off that one critical shot. Zornhau: Merlin's Snake Oil – or why arcanists are not artillery
Anxious to avoid confrontation with pacifists, the authorities made life relatively easy for the objectors.

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During this same period of Flotilla Face-Offs with the IDF, Pakistan, my nation of matrilineal and patrimonial heritage has witnessed the extraordinary massacre of 120 moderate, pacifist Muslims, followers of the Ahmadiyyah movement that subscribes to peaceful, pluralistic Islam. Qanta Ahmed, MD: Israel and the Flotilla: On the Dangers of a Binary View
He was a U.S. version of Gandhi, advancing the theory of pacifist resistance through his words and deeds.
It appears very fashionable these days to take a sort of pacifist line.
The big difference between pacifists and the kind of activists that Jensen and Churchill are trying to spawn is that the pacifist says that he/she will do "whatever it takes" up to a point. Do "movements to bring about social and environmental justice always fail?"
The pacifist option was followed by only a small minority.
While Woody Guthrie was a rambling, gambling, hard-travelling, hard-drinking guy who collected a handful of wives in his time and whose guitar "killed fascists", his travelling partner, Pete Seeger was a teetotalling Quaker Unitarian pacifist who married a Japanese girl during World War Two and did time briefly for refusing to name names to Joe McCarthy. "This Machine Surrounds Hate and Forces It To Surrender"
If his pacifist views had been the predominant ones, at certain times, life would be very different now.
Well what a surprise. 11am Radio 4 gives Billy Bragg a full half hour to prattle on about some obscure 1930s pacifists/ conchies / commune dwellers. Open thread
The Egyptian intellectual and cultural life continues to be basically moderate and very pacifist.
The head of a major labor confederation made the same request, adding that they should all march not as pacifists but as peaceable people.
And being against the war and saying you support the troops is one of the wussiest positions the pacifists have ever taken and they're wussy by definition. OpEdNews - Quicklink: Warriors and wusses
Liberalism today is, strictly speaking, pretty pacifistic.
Not long into the voyage, the ship is attacked by a peculiarly pacifistic band of pirates, who take the children on board their ship.
He had been the most outspoken critic of the Great War from a pacifist standpoint. THE GUARDSMEN
I find this sort of pacifistic reading of Just War utterly preposterous.
All but the most extreme pacifists will admit of a case where it might be immoral or amoral not to use force, if not to defend oneself then to defend others.
Which is why we will, along with other weak-kneed pacifist nations, likely pay for the lack of moral fiber of our own politicians.
The Thomas Merton Center expounds a Buddhist pacifist philosophy, along with advocating nonviolent protests and civil disobedience.
Pacifists ought to enter more deeply into the aesthetical and ethical point of view of their opponents. Matthew Yglesias » Lacking in Prosal Clarity
His position as Hitler's personal envoy initially made Ribbentrop a much-courted figure in Britain and he was a frequent guest of establishment figures such as former prime minister David Lloyd George, the pacifist George Lansbury and the British fascist Sir Oswald Mosley. Nazi foreign minister planned to own Cornwall as his retirement home
And this guy is a real pacifist, not a tag-along sloganeer.
Influenced by Dorothy Day and the pacifist Catholic Worker Movement, as well as by his experience with the worker-priest movement in France, Berrigan became an early voice of opposition to the war in Vietnam. Los Angeles Chronicle
Even the pacifistically named Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was moving away from King and toward the violent radical Black Panther Party. 1968
This is not a pacifist vision that eschews all uses of military force.
Meanwhile the leadership's support of military preparedness discomfited pacifists.
Being against the war and saying you support the troops is one of the wussiest positions the pacifists have ever taken — and they're wussy by definition. Fresh (And Unwussy) Air
If the term pacifist means "strongly opposed to war except in rare circumstances" then Channing was a pacifist, as is almost everybody. Philocrites: Imagine all the Statements of Conscience...
This skinny milquetoast liberal peacenik pacifist twirp was trying to "out-tough" a five year POW. The 18,000,001st Crack in the Glass Ceiling?
That, like the pacifist option, is the path of political suicide.
The British jingo, the pious Christian pacifist, the member of an exclusive club, the mere "Labourite"; all these he had been (or imagined he had been), and all these he attacked in turn. Sidney Percival Bunting
Whether you are a pacifist or a militarist, a Republican or a Democrat, an American or European, you're a security consumer.
David's play was amusing and its pacifist angle had a great appeal.
The vainglorious presence of Marilyn Monroe is placed alongside the subdued countenance of Mother Theresa, Che Guevara glares vehemently in opposition to the pacifistic visage of Mahatma Gandhi.
It allowed them to demonstrate their more anti-militarist and pacifist credentials.
Jacen was far more serene, and took a measured, pacifistic stance, believing any aggressive use of the Force to be a step towards the dark side.
He was soft-spoken and earnest, and not a pacifist or a shirker. How the End Begins
Critics say sending the troops violates Japan's pacifist constitution.
The women from Oslo, and from northern Europe generally, had a strong pacifist mission.
the pacifistically inclined liberals
Why do you beleive that to be a pacifist is wrong?? Iran War Resolution May Be Passed Next Week « Antiwar.com Blog
There was a wave of protests, mainly from Christian and pacifist groups, but as the shrine was then a private institution the government could not interfere.
Perfectionist pacifists believed that those who, like themselves, adhered to God's laws would achieve Christian perfection and therefore gain immediate entrance to God's millennial kingdom.
For instance, it's too simplistic to say that Indo-European speakers were all patriarchal warriors and native Europeans were all matrifocal pacifists. Archive 2007-10-01
Later he was to become famous as a pacifist.
It was my hope in the article to respond to these critics without endorsing the pacifistic positions they propose instead.
Because females are dominant in bonobo society and everyone engages in plenty of very casual sex, bonobos are much admired by feminists, hippies and pacifists as “the peaceful apes”. Bonobos news « PurpleSlog – Awesomeness & Modesty Meets Sexy
He was a pacifist activist to the end, embodying an egoless spirit all too rare among well-known activist types.
Anglophobia is always liable to reversal, hence that fairly common spectacle, the pacifist of one war who is a bellicist in the next. Notes on Nationalism
Morality and pacifist emotion were the driving forces behind much of the uninformed criticism of the Sandys Reformation.
Not everyone walks around looking for approval from pacifist New Zealanders.
Tra gli specialisti seguiti criminal pi attenzione dagli scout, il Bulldog ha trasformato il calcio pi lungo dalle 56 yards e ha centrato la miglior prestazione della sua ancor giovane carriera contro Arkansas, pacifist ha segnato ben fourteen punti, 4 FG e 2 XP. Rites of Autumn Blog Archive College Football Awards: i finalisti.
What also galls me is that these women are claiming not only sex, but femininity itself as a uniformly passive, gentle, loving, pacifist attribute.
A steady backbeat conjoined with the wonderfully pacifist chorus ‘You've got to tolerate / All those people that you hate’ make the song one of the album's highlights.
He was positioned by his commercial handlers as saintly, unifying, pacifistic and unthreatening. Times, Sunday Times
And being against the war and saying you support the troops is one of the wussiest positions the pacifists have ever taken — and they're wussy by definition. Archive 2006-01-01
In reality it is a pacifist position.
This was fortunate for him since, by this time, he held firm pacifist views.
Never mind that the Best and the Brightest are chiefly remembered for their contribution to Vietnam (damn liberal pacifists!), this sort of stuff is just hatstand bananas. Does Obama Like Tyrants More Than He Hates America?
From a boyhood steeped in the Anzac tradition, Johnston became a pacifist.
They gave as their reasons for this aloofness the facts that delegates from the Central powers, with whom the United States was still at war, were in attendance; that the meeting was held "for the purpose of arranging socialist procedure of an international character"; and that the convention was irregularly called, for it had been announced as an interallied conference but had been surreptitiously converted into an international pacifist gathering, conniving with German and Austrian socialists. The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners
Later he was to become famous as a pacifist.
The BBC correspondent says the anti-pirates emission anti-piracy mission is controversial in Japan because of its passivist pacifist post-Second World War constitution.
I've never met such an ardent pacifist as Terry.
The pacifist movement is gaining increasing support among young people.
And being against the war and saying you support the troops is one of the wussiest positions the pacifists have ever taken and they\'re wussy by definition. OpEdNews - Quicklink: Warriors and wusses
Critics of America are not, in any case, drawn exclusively from the pacifist Left.
His mind was already awhirl with ways to bypass the pacifistic Thrall and the crotchety old Cairne and get the Horde what it needed. The Shattering
In ‘Work to Do’ he speaks out for the pacifists of the anti-war movement.
Three statesmen who occupied leading positions during the World War were so deeply struck by the deprivation of human life and economic resources, by the futility of war as a social institution, and by its amorality, that they became convinced pacifists and throughout the rest of their lives spared no effort to prevent such a calamity from ever again overtaking mankind. The Nobel Peace Prize 1937 - Presentation Speech
He had been the most outspoken critic of the Great War from a pacifist standpoint. THE GUARDSMEN
For nearly two years he tried to adopt Day's anarcho-pacifist politics and her devotion to Catholic orthodoxy, while spending his evenings at the White Horse Tavern.
‘It was quite clear that it was an extraordinary thing,’ he says of the Taranaki kainga led by pacifist prophets Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kakahi.
If you accept this, it leads to what I call pacifist-anarchism, a view I was committed to for a while in high school and my first year of college. Vernon Smith on Globalization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Regarding his biography and psychology, four years ago Kelly converted to the Baha'i religion, a pacifist faith that strongly condemns suicide.
It was certainly permeable to see that he wasn't a pacifist; otherwise he'd have not signed for military duty.
That, like the pacifist option, is the path of political suicide.
The Quakers were, and still are, nonconformist pacifists.
The facts were reported in the pacifist press.
If we make our society too pacifistic, we may be unable to survive that sort of contact.
He wants to revise Japan's pacifist Constitution, though he insists that it will remain nonnuclear and the principles of Japan as a peaceful country are unchanged.
The experiences of the liberal-democratic period can be used to prevent the re-emergence of these pacifistic illusions.
Woolf spends 250 pages problematizing all aspects of women's participation in pacifist protest.
Why aren't young people more idealistic and pacifistic than others? Times, Sunday Times
Anglophobia is always liable to reversal, hence that fairly common spectacle, the pacifist of one war who is a bellicist in the next. Notes on Nationalism
I'm the most pacifistic guy you'll ever meet.
The people of Akir, known as the Akira, are a gentle, pacifistic people.
An objection to coercion rooted in pacifist-anarchism evolved into the objections to coercion that inform modern libertariansim. Another Herring, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Later he was to become famous as a pacifist.
You are noncombative, noncompetitive, and something of a pacifist. Blog De Ganz | Archive | January
Small wonder that, by the time of the Boer War, the pacifists felt like a small and beleaguered minority.
Josiah Harlan was a pacifist, abstemious Pennsylvania Quaker stricken with a profound case of wanderlust.
The term sans-culottes, meaning "without breeches," implied that the members of this political group were (1 point) women, because they wore skirts. very poor and could not afford pants. pacifists who did not use guns. ordinary patriots without fine clothes. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
He isn't an ideological pacifist, he just doesn't get the point of aggression and belligerence.
There were the Pacifists, with an accent on the fist, as was once said.
Pacifist feminists, for example, embraced their identity as mothers to justify their refusal to support the war.
And according to Lelyvard, Gandhi the pacifist was a wife-beater, denied sex to his wife for decades, was purported to be a "celibate" living life as an ascetic, but actually was a pedophile who ritualized sleeping naked with underage girls in order to test "the ferocity of his sexual desires," and at one point left his wife for a male lover. Irene Monroe: The Gandhi None of Us Knew
It will not work to teach kids to be unaggressive because we do not have a society dominated by Quakers and pacifists.
She identified as a pacifist, socialist and member of the IWW, the Industrial Workers of the World. Democracy Now!
The pacifist movement is gaining increasing support among young people.
In the same year he defied his family's pacifist views and joined the army, arriving as a private in the trenches in 1916.
The term sans-culottes, meaning "without breeches," implied that the members of this political group were (1 point) women, because they wore skirts. very poor and could not afford pants. pacifists who did not use guns. ordinary patriots without fine clothes. Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
His religious principles made him a pacifist so he was exempted from military service and remained at Cambridge.
At the other extreme were the pacifists who rejected any form of violence, even in self-defence.
The dissidents are by no means all pacifists, much less opponents of a resurgence of British imperialism.
Thanks to that, it is now virtually a pacifist country, and one of the most stable democracies in the world.
But he also was an implacable pacifist and refused a baronetcy from a monarch he disapproved of. Times, Sunday Times
(adj): prenominal), pacifistic, dovish -- (opposed to war Errata: The Wordie Blog
April 25 marks the annual Anzac Day event, a largely meaningless piece of slacktivism where people pretend that one hour of pacifist posing by attending dawn service is more important than long-term behavioural change. Forget Earth Hour And Do Something Useful Instead | Lifehacker Australia
Born in Dunfermline, Scotland, Carnegie was indoctrinated in the democratic, pacifistic tenets of his father, a Chartist radical.
Some contemporary critics suspected Dix of a pacifistic or revolutionary agenda.
By subscribing to this pacifistic, respectful philosophy and by being interested in teaching youth, they could bring a core program for at-risk youngsters into their local schools.
In 1917, a mass movement led by socialists and pacifists called for a popular referendum on the question of going to war.
Their style was meant to symbolize tough, patriotic, working-class attitudes in contrast to the supposedly sissyish, pacifist, middle-class views of the hippies.
Censorship was reformed, to repress both pacifists and defeatists for military reasons, but to restore freedoms otherwise.
The assumption that dancing is peaceful or pacifistic in nature needs to be explored further.
One such person whom no one could credibly describe as a knee-jerk pacifist is retired Army Col. Pete Mansoor. I Can’t Live With Or Without You | ATTACKERMAN
The early Christian Church was pacifistic in nature.
Unless of course it gets taken over by a pacifist collective dedicated to advancing the cause of world peace.
Like so many former reformists, liberals and pacifists, however, the Guardian and Observer have lurched ever further to the right.
Japan is enmeshed in a familiar quandary about how to provide military support without damaging its pacifist constitution.
There were the Pacifists, with an accent on the fist, as was once said.
The Japanese Prime Minister has raised the controversial issue of reviewing his country's pacifist constitution.
Hare is a long-time unilateral nuclear disarmer and pacifist. A Fistful Of Euros » A Fistful Of Euros
I see the possible benefits of teaching kids to be as pacifistic as possible.
He also inherited a pacifist sensibility, which was why he refused to do National Service and worked instead as a hospital orderly for two years.
In the long view, I am a pacifist feminist.
In particular, Quaker tradition, with its unifying sense of humanity's spiritual oneness, had laid the cornerstone of much early pacifist campaigning.
The pacifist movement is gaining increasing support among young people.
It should be pointed out that for the most part, we're not peaceniks or even pacifists.
I was a pacifist by nature, and had always bruised easily as a child.
The pacifist movement is gaining increasing support among young people.
Some opponents of this war are genuine pacifists, and I respect their position.
Despite being disregarded by her male colleagues, she became a productive sociologist in addition to being a feminist and a pacifist.
Labour's long-term supporters, ethical socialists, public service workers, egalitarians and anti-monarchists, trade unionists and pacifists, were harder to deal with.
A self-identifying communist, he was invited to speak at a pacifist congress in Melbourne.
Nationalism has and could prove to be the most effective way for political leaders to win support and legitimacy from their people, a process that could even affect the pacifist nations of Germany and Japan that would drive nations to form partnerships based on interests and not on "civilizational" and other values. Leon T. Hadar: Dump All Those Paradigms: It's Nationalism, Stupid!
Labour's long-term supporters, ethical socialists, public service workers, egalitarians and anti-monarchists, trade unionists and pacifists, were harder to deal with.
Naturally they are entirely satisfactory to Germany and equally naturally they are in this country satisfactory to every pro-German and pacifist and socialist and anti-American so-called internationalist…. How Wars end
Those inadequate and closely-packed, green leather benches facing each other in that stuffy chamber would induce quick tempers, name calling and fist fights in a convocation of Quaker pacifists.
There are those who would say that Christianity really requires us to be peacemakers and to be Pacifists.
Bridge held strong pacifist views, based on harsh experience. The Times Literary Supplement
He looks to be a well-educated, generous, and pacifistic gentlemen.
Suddenly, bishops called upon their pacifist communities to take up swords and defend the Empire.
The BBC correspondent says anti - piracy mission is controversial in Japan because of its pacifist post - War constitution.
Their pacifist constitution is both atonement for a bloody past and a defining national characteristic.
Pacifist movements gathered strength in Norway.
It's called survival and in times of war (no matter what expedient title politicos and pacifists hang on it, to deodorise it) you do what has to be done to exhibit your own strength and exploit the weakness of the enemy. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
a convinced and fanatical pacifist
Elvis (#41): being a pacifist is not a sign of weakness. Think Progress » Bush Said His Nominees Won’t Change Their Minds In 20 Years
And not all residents of Steinbach would hold to a pacifist position.
The East Fulham by-election in October 1933 proved a significant pointer to the strength of pacifist sentiment.
A pacifist is working in some job which gives him access to important military information, and is approached by a German secret agent. As I Please
The character of Seamus Finnan in Vellum has some fairly preachy dialogue of a socialist-pacifist bent, and I am, it has to be said, fairly bolshie myself. Critique From HereNow
It scarcely matters whether one was formerly a pacifist or a militarist, whether one hated war or resigned oneself to it… defeat creates a deep and lasting traumatism in everyone.
He was even nominated for the award of York's Millennium Person of the Past, later won by pacifist Joseph Rowntree.
Still, many Japanese have criticised the mission, saying it unnecessarily endangers lives and violates the country's pacifist constitution.

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