0 the act of showing in a peaceful way that you oppose something, rather than using violence:
The Mahatma instigated several campaigns of passive resistance against the British government in India.
1 a way of showing your opposition to a law or official activity without acting violently
Passive resistance intermixed with active defiance in the rear inevitably and profoundly affected conditions at the front.
Passive resistance could turn into a battle in which the morality of war ruled supreme.
Does she defer, instead, because she hopes to conquer him through passive resistance, both a social and political strategy?
Passive resistance had to be "masculine, bold and ardent in its spirit" and capable of switching over to active resistance.
Already in his pieces on passive resistance, he had identified the need for a central authority to guide the movement.
Early on, he distinguished between passive resistance and satyagraha.
As they consistently refused to leave, a large military force was sent in to commence evacuation, which met passive resistance.
Having made the distinction between active and passive resistance, he stressed that any form of refusal constituted an act of resistance or at least non-conformity.
