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nonconfrontation

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  • noun Avoidance of confrontation.

Etymologies

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non- +‎ confrontation

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Examples

  • The leadership of both Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza have imposed a temporary policy of nonconfrontation on their respective followers, as well as on other armed groups operating within the territories they control.

    How the Next Middle East War Could Start Ronen Bergman 2010

  • The leadership of both Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza have imposed a temporary policy of nonconfrontation on their respective followers, as well as on other armed groups operating within the territories they control.

    How the Next Middle East War Could Start Ronen Bergman 2010

  • The leadership of both Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza have imposed a temporary policy of nonconfrontation on their respective followers, as well as on other armed groups operating within the territories they control.

    How the Next Middle East War Could Start Ronen Bergman 2010

  • The hip merchants, however, posted flyers around the neighborhood advising their fellow Hashburians to stay indoors, consistent with their understanding of the Buddhist third way of nonconfrontation. 16

    Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83 2007

  • They posted notices of their own, advising hippies to follow their inner impulses, and stay home or traverse the streets heedless of the state's curfew, the New Left's call to protest, and the proprietors 'counsel of nonconfrontation.

    Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83 2007

  • For the Diggers, pacifist nonconfrontation conceded the dignity of the free man, which he could keep only if he actively defended his freedom against the incursions of unjust authority.

    Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 1965–83 2007

  • By the time I was an adult, nonconfrontation was a way of life.

    sTORI Telling Tori Spelling 2008

  • RIVERS: As this crisis continues to grip Myanmar, people here are praying that their Buddhist ideals of peace and nonconfrontation will prevail and that there won't be a repeat of the terrible bloodshed that occurred in 1988.

    CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2007 2007

  • For years, that culture of nonconfrontation and need has allowed narco alms to be an open secret, according to experts like George W. Grayson, the author of "Mexico: Narco-Violence and a Failed State?"

    NYT > Global Home By DAMIEN CAVE 2011

  • For years, that culture of nonconfrontation and need has allowed narco alms to be an open secret, according to experts like George W. Grayson, the author of "Mexico: Narco-Violence and a Failed State?"

    NYT > Home Page By DAMIEN CAVE 2011

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