CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE


Meaning of CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE in English

noun

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Do we intend to commit civil disobedience ?

If he fasted, he was released from jail; if he attempted civil disobedience , he was back in again.

In Pittsburgh, there were a few sit-ins, invasions of churches, minor civil disobedience .

It had to be a battle in which his side would fight with a special kind of weapon: civil disobedience .

Non-cooperation and civil disobedience , as Gandhi understands them, can not be construed as a coercive threat in this sense.

Nothing in their training or previous experience had accustomed them to this kind of civil disobedience .

That there are risks associated with civil disobedience no one would deny, and among them is the risk of anarchy.

Would he desist from civil disobedience if he were convinced?

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