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  2. Satyagraha - Wikipedia

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    I often used “passive resistance” and “satyagraha” as synonymous terms: but as the doctrine of satyagraha developed, the expression “passive resistance” ceases even to be synonymous, as passive resistance has admitted of violence as in the case of the suffragettes and has been universally acknowledged to be a weapon of the weak ...

  3. Nonresistance - Wikipedia

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    Nonresistance (or non-resistance) is "the practice or principle of not resisting authority, even when it is unjustly exercised". [1] At its core is discouragement of, even opposition to, physical resistance to an enemy.

  4. Nonviolent resistance - Wikipedia

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    Nonviolent resistance, or nonviolent action, sometimes called civil resistance, is the practice of achieving goals such as social change through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic or political noncooperation, satyagraha, constructive program, or other methods, while refraining from violence and the threat of violence. [1]

  5. Right to resist - Wikipedia

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    The right of resistance is the result of a long historical development, which, based on an absolutist or legal positivist background, assumed that state action could never be wrong: "The King can do no wrong". Any criminal offenses committed and other violations of rights are justified by the right of resistance. However, the resister must ...

  6. Civil Disobedience (Thoreau) - Wikipedia

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    Resistance to Civil Government, also called On the Duty of Civil Disobedience or Civil Disobedience, is an essay by American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, first published in 1849. In it, Thoreau argues that individuals should prioritize their conscience over compliance with unjust laws , asserting that passive submission to government ...

  7. English passive voice - Wikipedia

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    A double passive formed from that sentence would be: The project was attempted to be completed. with both verbs changed simultaneously to the passive voice, even though the first verb takes no object – it is not possible to say *We attempted the project to be completed, which is the sentence from which the double passive would appear to derive.

  8. Balance (ability) - Wikipedia

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    The Mini-Balance Evaluation Systems Test (Mini-BESTest): Is a short form of the Balance Evaluation System Test that is used widely in both clinical practice and research. The test is used to assess balance impairments and includes 14 items of dynamic balance task, divided in to four subcomponents: anticipatory postural adjustments, reactive ...

  9. Massive resistance - Wikipedia

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    Massive resistance was a political strategy created by American politicians Harry F. Byrd and James M. Thomson [1] aimed at getting Virginia officials to pass laws and policies preventing public school desegregation, particularly after Brown v.