passive resister
Example Sentences
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Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax was India's kindly Viceroy in Saint Gandhi's brightest days as India's great passive resister.
From Time Magazine Archive
A passive resister rather than a rebel, always intimidated by his big, bumbling father, he decided at last on a Church career.
From Time Magazine Archive
If this particular impost were made upon me in any direct manner it would almost persuade me to be a passive resister.
From The Law and the Poor by Parry, Edward Abbott
I had to turn passive resister before I could be taken.
From Third class in Indian railways by Gandhi, Mahatma
He always assumes the rôle of passive resister, and is always defeated with ignominy.
From A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil by Swinburne, T. R.
