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Example sentences for: nonviolence
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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.