Sentence examples for pacifism from inspiring English sources

The problem with swords made of light is that, by its nature, light is massless – it will simply pass through other light like an appalling coward, instead of colliding with it with a satisfactory "bwwwooOOUumm-TSSSK". Scientists at the MIT Centre for Ultracold Atoms, in Massachusetts, recognise the problem of light's irritating pacifism and are taking important steps to correct it.

It is often forgotten that the old West Germany had a very large milieu that defined itself primarily through pacifism.

This is a recognition by Nippon Kaigi, says Tomomi Yamaguchi at Montana State University, that changing the attitudes of women, many of whom admire Japan's long-standing pacifism, will be crucial.Nippon Kaigi gives nationalists in China and South Korea an excuse to claim that Japanese militarism is on the rise again.

Germany's traditional post-war pacifism has made any involvement, even in less-controversial wars like Kosovo or Afghanistan, ticklish.The government is keeping its plans vague for now.

The daily barrage of nuclear intimidation from North Korea is exerting a profound effect on the opinions of people who were once committed to pacifism.

Yet in the real world only two-and-a-half EU countries have serious global military capability: Britain, France and Germany (the half, hamstrung by post-war pacifism).

But chiefly, perhaps, because the vociferous German Greens have been a political force in Germany for the past couple of decades, whereas the still-fragmented French ones are relative newcomers in France a country with little tradition of pacifism, nuclear protest or respect for the environment.Now the French Greens have begun to demand more.

German opposition to the war in Iraq, unlike France's, is based far more on gut pacifism than on a desire to confront America.

IN THE light of his ill-judged visits to a shrine commemorating, among others, Japanese war criminals, it is not surprising that Japan's neighbours view Shinzo Abe's plans to tinker at the edges of Japan's long-standing pacifism with deep suspicion.

Indeed, as a party founded on pacifism, it likes to describe itself as the LDP's opposition.

With the government having agreed to phase out nuclear power, many Greens feel that their traditional pacifism is just about all they have left.Their congress this weekend promises to be as stormy as the one two years ago when they agonised over sending German troops to Kosovo.