disobedience

Example Sentences

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Afterwards, Gandhi presided over waves of civil disobedience protests, encouraging supporters of the Indian National Congress to manufacture contraband salt, boycott foreign goods, and face down phalanxes of lathi-wielding policemen.

From BBC

As the Manual for Courts-Martial puts it, disobedience is “at the peril of the subordinate.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Organizers counter that civil disobedience is central to their mission and vowed to continue holding weekly vigils outside the facility, calling the arrests a sign that we are in “a spiritual emergency.”

From Salon

Communications Minister Rene Emmanuel Sadi on Sunday criticised "calls for insurrection, ghost towns or civil disobedience, which are likely to endanger the life of the nation, social peace, and economic development".

From Barron's

“These are people who were, out of conscience, making a decision to engage in an act of civil disobedience,” she told the judge.

From Los Angeles Times