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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
passive resistance
noun
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▪ But passive resistance doesn't work.
▪ He might have been, like Gandhi, an apostle of passive resistance.
▪ Nor could Edna forgive Jane her offensive passive resistance.
▪ Open negativism turns into stony passive resistance.
▪ The firm and repeated instruction of the strike organisers was that passive resistance alone was to be used.
▪ The Magdalen College affair, for example, provides a classic example of passive resistance.
▪ There was great resentment, and considerable passive resistance.
▪ Within the classroom too teachers have to live with an active or passive resistance to their best efforts.
WordNet
passive resistance

n. peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate [syn: nonviolent resistance, nonviolence]

Wikipedia
Passive Resistance (Hungary)

Passive Resistance (passzív ellenállás) is a name attributed to an era of Hungarian politics in the 19th century. It refers to a form of opposition to Austrian domination of Hungary. "Passive resistance" refers in this case to the reluctance of any notable and prestigious personalities to take any position or office or to otherwise engage in politics, and also to certain other acts of non-cooperation. This approach characterized Hungarian public life between 1849 and 1865, with a brief intermezzo in 1860-61. In Hungarian historical context, therefore, the meaning of the term passive resistance is slightly different from in other contexts. Passive resistance, including in the forms practised in Hungary in this period, represents one form of the broader phenomenon of civil resistance.

Usage examples of "passive resistance".

She had taken the E&E course, yes, but Esmay doubted she had taken the lectures about nonresistance, passive resistance, seriously.

So, in the beginning there was passive resistance but when Christianity came to power it turned oppressive.

You may, of course, at your discretion, elect to employ passive resistance and noncooperation.

She probably figures that the combination of passive resistance within the Cabinet, plus the fact that he doesn't control a majority in Parliament, will prevent Rajkovic from doing anything especially dangerous while she deals with the Constitutional Convention in Spindle.

It didn't matter to him who or what she was, except in as much as her passive resistance had frustrated his efforts to make her fear him.

The way our union oscillates between grudging cooperation and intermittent passive resistance?

There's been a lot of passive resistance to Admiral Sarnow's instructions to decommission so many of their older units, obsolescent pieces of junk or not.

No member of the Church, no one preaching total passive resistance, can be head of this state.