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A nonresisting parry channels the energy of the attacking blade into a circular motion, turning aggression back against the opponent.

Guards, according to the A.C.L.U. report, routinely abused handcuffed or otherwise nonresisting inmates with Tasers or pepper spray, and employed chokeholds, and punching, kicking and slamming prisoners’ heads into walls.

We, like the Jews, had come nonresisting into this isolated house of death, and we sat in the dark, at the mercy of robots before the gas chambers waiting for the proverbial bar of soap.

Would they obey the Mahatma, abstain from paying taxes, abstain from all obedience to British employers or superiors,† buy no British cloth, and pray that they may meet Death all innocent and nonresisting at British hands?

Scarcely less black the two or three known examples of cruelty wrought upon nonresisting Belgians.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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