How to Use passive resistance in a Sentence

passive resistance

noun
Definition of passive resistancenext
  • Bringing this up elicits a lot of anger or passive resistance.
    — Tribune Content Agency, Detroit Free Press, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The lawsuit cites an Oregon statute that says a person can’t be arrested for passive resistance.
    — oregonlive, 9 July 2020
  • Most switch freely between the two, which are linguistically similar, and many are speaking Ukrainian as a form of passive resistance.
    — James Marson, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The judge also ordered no use of pepper spray against people engaged in passive resistance and urged police to minimize the exposure of pepper spray to bystanders.
    — oregonlive, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The judge issued an order June 26 that restricted police from firing less-lethal launchers into a crowd if people engaged in passive resistance were likely to be struck.
    — oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2020
  • Lying flat and involution are not just online fodder, experts say; symptoms of passive resistance are popping up across Chinese society.
    — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The efforts of Xi Jinping, the president, to make local leaders obey the dictates of the central government seem to have turned the former passive resistance at the lower levels of the bureaucracy into overenthusiastic compliance.
    — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2017
  • The training will include review of videos and scenarios from protests in Portland and elsewhere to ensure police understand the difference between a person’s passive resistance, physical resistance and active aggression.
    — oregonlive, 13 Jan. 2021
  • High-level supervisors should be held accountable for allowing force used against protesters when there was only passive resistance by a particular demonstrator, Hager said.
    — oregonlive, 16 July 2021
  • At best, that approach creates minimal performance and comes with significant collateral damage from passive resistance to outright sabotage.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 3 May 2022
  • Police used force during last year’s mass protests that violated bureau policy, with officers not distinguishing between active versus passive resistance before firing rubber bullets and other impact munitions, federal lawyers said.
    — oregonlive, 24 Mar. 2021

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