Example sentences for: nonviolence

How can you use “nonviolence” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Everybody mentions that a much-violated nonviolence pact between pro- and anti-Indonesian forces seems, at the very last minute, to be finally holding up.

  • Dylan went from protest-folk to mod-rock around the same time the civil rights movement went from nonviolence to black power, soft drugs turned to hard drugs, and so on.

  • Lee, whose dedication to both nonviolence and Catholicism soon marginalized him in a movement that had become increasingly dominated by militants and evangelical Christians, is perhaps even less representative than Widdicombe.

  • dark, ominous and pretentious" (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ) … "an unoriginal warming over of a skimpy Japanese production … an innocuous, if lengthy, commercial" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ) … "its efforts to preach nonviolence while exploiting it are both patronizing and hypocritical" (Jack Mathews, the Daily News ) … "idiotic" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Many reviewers admit that they're powerless to influence the target audience and predict (correctly) that the film will be a huge hit no matter what they say.

  • The lesson they have drawn: Liberation comes from armed struggle, not nonviolence.


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