Sentence examples for disobedience from from inspiring English sources

Inspired by Gandhi, the famed pioneer of civil disobedience from her native India, Nair threatened producers with a hunger strike if they didn't relent.

It's difficult to mark the exact moment when a radical advocate chooses to cross the line separating civil disobedience from violent crime.

I decided to retreat across the street to the patio of the Colson Patisserie, where one could witness Lew's civil disobedience from a safe distance, and also enjoy a coffee.

Through various acts of civil disobedience – from online activism to holding hands in a park or dressing fashionably – young Iranians from all social classes have shown where they stand on liberalism.

A second response to the problem Romans 13 posed was to distinguish disobedience from resistance.

This would suggest that civil disobedience should be regarded in the eyes of the law as a different kind of disobedience from common crimes.

However, from the point of view of advocacy, which was very well explained to me by Valerie and Nicole and by Reverend Sharpton, the reason that the civil disobedience occurred, from their point of view, is because the other redress opportunities of society had failed them.

In a memorandum to the court, Hammond's lawyers describe the hack as an "act of civil disobedience" emanating from his concern about the mushrooming of the private security industry that now accounts for 70% of all government spending on intelligence.

Environmental groups would be barred from extensive advocacy work and sanctioned if they encouraged civil disobedience, under recommendations from a federal parliamentary inquiry into the tax-deductible status of environment groups.

[NYC.gov] Bill de Blasio appeared in court over an earlier civil disobedience charge stemming from an arrest at a protest against hospital closings.

Another version of the legend has it that Adam, for his disobedience, was hurled from Heaven and, as penance, stood for a thousand years on one foot on top of Adam's Peak, a remarkable 7,360-foot 7,360-foothat rises in a precipitous rock pyramountain thatjungles and tea estates of centriseseylon.