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