What is "nonviolent"

Usage examples of "nonviolent".

The most dramatic episode unfolded in May 1961, when the tiny Congress of Racial Equality sent biracial teams of volunteers into Alabama and Mississippi to conduct a nonviolent test of Supreme Court decisions banning segregation on interstate travel.

I, on the other hand, a Gandhian nonviolent revolutionary or a pacifist, as many of the other participants thought of themselves.

And my parents may be nonviolent New Agers, but you can believe they'd have ripped into anybody who tried to hurt us.

Gately disastrously decides to go ahead and allow a nonviolent burglary to become in effect a robbery which the operative legal difference involves either violence or the coercive threat of same and Gately draws himself up to his full menacing height and shines his flashlight in the little homeowner's rheumy eyes and addresses him the way menacing criminals speak in popular entertainment d's for th's, various apocopes, and so on and takes hold of the guy's ear and conducts him down to a kitchen chair and binds his arms and legs to the chair with electrical cords neatly clipped from refrigerator and can-opener and M.

His professional association with Whitey Sor-kin continued part-time even after Gately discovered his real B&E vocation, though he tended more and more toward less taxing nonviolent crime.

Jamie and Denis and many of their col­leagues concluded that it was not, and vowed to adhere to the nonviolent principles espoused by Saint Urgyen Bhotia.

Unexpectedly the memorial had turned into a kind of sit-in, and then the hunger strikes and nonviolent demonstrations had started.

Looking at the aerial roots and branches of this great tree, I thought of old political and social systems dying and new ones being born, all in a gradual and nonviolent fashion.

On crime, I asked for passage of the Brady bill, military-style boot camps for first-time nonviolent offenders, and my proposal to put 100,000 new police on the streets.

He woke up with his head under a blanket in a ward for nonviolent mental patients in a veterans' hospital near Lake Placid, New York.

But for every one of Aenea's adherents killed or arrested, dozens -- hundreds -- stayed safe in hiding, passing along Aenea's teachings, offering communion of their own changed blood, and providing largely nonviolent resistance at every turn.

Some of the demonstrators had labeled him a coward and pointed out that nonviolent resistance often required more courage than combat, but Morgan stuck to his convictions.

Even if they only intend a nonviolent resistance, locking arms and that sort of thing, I can't deal with that big a group myself.

Moreover, studies have shown that an unemployment decline of 1 percentage point accounts for a 1 percent drop in nonviolent crime.

Most of the other prisoners, all of them convicted of nonviolent, white-collar crimes, had been trundled away in purple schoolbuses to work details around the base.