passive resister
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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
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.
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)
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
