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单词 passive resistance
释义

passive resistance

noun

: resistance especially to a government or an occupying power characterized mainly by noncooperation

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Bringing this up elicits a lot of anger or passive resistance. Tribune Content Agency, Detroit Free Press, 7 Sep. 2022 Bringing this up elicits a lot of anger or passive resistance. Amy Dicksinson, cleveland, 7 Sep. 2022 Bringing this up elicits a lot of anger or passive resistance. Amy Dickinson, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2022 Bringing this up elicits a lot of anger or passive resistance. Amy Dickinson, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2022 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 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 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 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 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1779, in the meaning defined above

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