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  • adverb In a nonviolent manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb without violence

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Examples

  • Solving problems nonviolently is much more challenging and often requires some introspection.

    On Domestic Violence And Guns 2009

  • Solving problems nonviolently is much more challenging and often requires some introspection.

    On Domestic Violence And Guns 2009

  • Marianne Kearney-Brown, a pacifist Quaker, took the oath seriously and inserted "nonviolently," crossed out "swear," and circled "affirm" in the version of the oath presented to her.

    Would You Sign This Pledge To Keep Your Job? Ron Buckmire 2008

  • PMW Bulletin: PM Fayyad honors terrorist killed while "nonviolently" trying to knife Israeli soldier

    IMRA Middle East News Updates 2010

  • If Obama reaches out effectively to the democratic forces rising both within the military and the civilian population -- and if the Arab world's largest and most important country moves nonviolently toward free elections while maintaining peace with Israel -- he can banish the specter of Carter's Iran bungling and notch a major foreign policy accomplishment.

    Obama's Egypt opportunity Charles Lane 2011

  • As I write this, the world is waiting anxiously to see how the Israeli government will deal with the dilemma created by the second Gaza Flotilla -- a series of ships packed with humanitarian supplies and people determined to nonviolently show solidarity with the Palestinian people under occupation.

    Cynthia Boaz: The Obligations of Independence Cynthia Boaz 2011

  • The real battle must be waged nonviolently in the streets, even in the face of excessive oppression by an emerging police state.

    Carl Gibson: The Corporatocracy Is the 1 Percent Carl Gibson 2011

  • As I write this, the world is waiting anxiously to see how the Israeli government will deal with the dilemma created by the second Gaza Flotilla -- a series of ships packed with humanitarian supplies and people determined to nonviolently show solidarity with the Palestinian people under occupation.

    Cynthia Boaz: The Obligations of Independence Cynthia Boaz 2011

  • I consider this the most inspiring experience of my life, to see how millions of courageous people — people like Daniel and his father in Gringolandia — struggled against a brutal despot and their own fear to win back their freedom, nonviolently.

    Author-friends, Meet Lyn Miller-Lachmann 2010

  • I consider this the most inspiring experience of my life, to see how millions of courageous people — people like Daniel and his father in Gringolandia — struggled against a brutal despot and their own fear to win back their freedom, nonviolently.

    Archive 2010-04-01 2010

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