Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective of or pertaining to Mohandas Gandhi.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to Mahatma Gandhi or his teachings
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Examples
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I have heard the occasional Westerner maintain that long-term Gandhian struggles employing nonviolent passive resistance do not suit everybody and that such courses of action are more natural in the East.
The Global Community 2010
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I have heard the occasional Westerner maintain that long-term Gandhian struggles employing nonviolent passive resistance do not suit everybody and that such courses of action are more natural in the East.
The Global Community 2010
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I have heard the occasional Westerner maintain that long-term Gandhian struggles employing nonviolent passive resistance do not suit everybody and that such courses of action are more natural in the East.
The Global Community 2010
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I have heard the occasional Westerner maintain that long-term Gandhian struggles employing nonviolent passive resistance do not suit everybody and that such courses of action are more natural in the East.
The Global Community 2010
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Why not just carry it out with a kind of Gandhian dedication, and see what happens?
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The spokesman said the action committee would continue to lead the agitation in a "Gandhian" way till their demands are met.
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She, however, added that president Obama was a huge admirer of Mahatma Gandhi, and that there could be some kind of Gandhian programme during the president's visit.
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Successful entrepreneur and MTV Youth Icon 2008, E Sarath Babu and chemical engineer 'Gandhian' N Venkataraman are preparing to take the political heavyweights headon.
The Times of India 2009
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Successful entrepreneur and MTV Youth Icon 2008, E Sarath Babu and chemical engineer 'Gandhian' N Venkataraman are preparing to take the political heavyweights headon.
The Times of India 2009
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Now it becomes more difficult for those who kept wanting to give this Feisal Abdul Rauf the benefit of the doubt to keep calling him a "moderate" without any supporting evidence, or to fall back on his self-description as a "Sufi" as if that implied some kind of Gandhian satyagraha, when Sufis can be just as determinedly bent on Jihad, that is, the "struggle" to remove all obstacles to the spread and then the dominance of Islam as any other Muslim group.
FrontPage Magazine 2010
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