disobedience

Example Sentences

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That summer, 1960, Jackson came home and led a sit-in at the library, his arrest a first taste of civil disobedience.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

Other groups are providing nonviolent civil disobedience training, for example, which organizers describe as calling attention to the injustice of the current policy.

From Salon • Feb. 13, 2026

Legal and civil disobedience training are now essential, and there will be ample work to do in protecting vulnerable neighbors and neighborhoods.

From Slate • Jan. 27, 2026

Acts of civil disobedience have a long and sometimes noble history, but the actors must also face the legal consequences.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

They set off together, with the servant girl carrying the child and the man driving them on, muttering to himself about the great insult that had been done him by this act of disobedience.

From "The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa" by Alexander Mccall Smith