Synonym: unbloody. Similar words: violent, violently, violence, benevolent, malevolent, malevolently, viol, viola. Meaning: ['nɑn'vaɪələnt /'nɒn-] 
adj. 1. abstaining (on principle) from the use of violence 2. achieved without bloodshed.
adj. 1. abstaining (on principle) from the use of violence 2. achieved without bloodshed. 
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1 That revolution was nonviolent.
2 This sort of punishment is applied only to nonviolent criminals who are not likely to be dangerous to the public.
3 Consequently, nonviolent direct action as a strategy endured.
4 The nonpartisan, nonviolent and civilly disobedient El Barzon has been hit with mass arrests of its leaders.
5 They kept their promise to remain nonviolent and did not throw firebombs at first.
6 Finding nonviolent ways of settling differences between diverse groups of interests is the essence of democracy.
7 It also attracts criminals, mostly nonviolent, who drive to trail heads and parking areas to steal from cars and campsites.
8 The new era of riots overlapped the nonviolent phase of the black liberation struggle.
9 What is the price tag for keeping decent, nonviolent people from having to commit the very act that Davis committed?
10 Beaten by the police,[www.Sentencedict.com] he insisted on nonviolent resistance.
11 Gandhi expounded the idea of nonviolent direction.
12 Hoover had bugged Congressmen, as well as nonviolent civil right and antiwar protestors.
13 Nonviolent communication was developed in the 70s by Marshall B. Rosenberg, a PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Wisconsin.
14 Failure or refusalto cooperate, especially nonviolent civil disobedience against a government or an occupying power.
15 King had begun a long campaign of nonviolent resistance to rectify these wrongs.
16 King asked civil rights activists to remain nonviolent as they worked to lift racial oppression.
17 He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his nonviolent campaigns for greater autonomy in his homeland.
18 Ultimately, they relented, and the three defendants are housed in a unit for nonviolent offenders.
19 Such a government should include members drawn from the existing parliament, the nonviolent opposition movement and rebel leader Kabila himself.
20 The tepid federal response to the assault and murder of civil rights workers engaged in nonviolent activities fomented distrust.
21 Until the 1970s primatologists were busy confirming our prejudices about peaceable apes living in nonviolent societies.
22 Instead of acquiescing, as most blacks had done in the nonviolent marches in the South, the crowd attacked the police.
23 I had been arrested in the Capitol rotunda for a nonviolent protest the day the House passed its version of the bill.
24 A dog can bite you but you must not bite the dog! Your every movement in life must be peaceful; otherwise you lose your ethical superiority! Nonviolent civil disobedience is a genius; no power can beat it; use it when necessary! Mehmet Murat ildan 
25 In fact, more than 70 percent of new prisoners this year will be serving time for nonviolent offenses.
26 Beaten by the police and sent to jail, Gandi created the principle of nonviolent resistance.
27 Bourgeois believes the war on terrorism has taken a toll on King's nonviolent vision.
28 They had a sincere concern and voiced it in a nonviolent and appropriate way.
29 Organizers such as the group United for Peace and Justice offered training in nonviolent protest and political activism ahead of the peace march.
30 In 1959, King toured India and further developed his understanding of Gandhian nonviolent strategies.
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