0 (of political protest or crime) not involving fighting or the use of physical force: --
She called on volunteers to join the nonviolent resistance.
1 not using violent methods, esp. to cause a political or social change: --
The protest demonstration was nonviolent, although the marchers were heckled throughout by onlookers.
This asks larger questions about the national and global conditions that make possible the ethics and tactics of nonviolent political thought and action.
But there are nonviolent preemptive practices as well.
An innocent victim of the crime can still be rescued and no nonviolent means to achieve the same end are available.
During war, they are often religious pacifists who pursue a self-imposed obligation to "bear witness" to a nonviolent way of life.
Boycotts are nonviolent actions-one of the few effective ways that citizens may directly register moral outrage over the behavior of a state or other actor.
This included increases with age in less forceful, more modulated aggression, including nonviolent verbal aggression.
It included early nonviolent verbal aggression (like other girls) and heightened use of aggressive posturing (compared to all other groups).
She interprets tree theft not only as a means of generating income, but also a form of nonviolent resistance.
