passive resister
Example Sentences
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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
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
Ewart gave me all my first conceptions of socialism; in a little while I was an enthusiastic socialist and he was a passive resister to the practical exposition of the theories he had taught me.
From Tono Bungay by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
Hitherto he had imagined Fenn to be merely a sort of passive resister who confined himself to the Achilles-in-his-tent business, and was only a nuisance because he refused to back him up.
From The Head of Kay's by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
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.
