Sentence examples for passive protest from inspiring English sources

(The utter absence of rhythm here registers almost as an act of passive protest).

Simons told him that he was only working on his own stuff until the war was over, as a sort of passive protest.

In response, my boyfriend sometimes initiates a passive protest and leaves the bins to overflow (unfortunately for him, I don't usually notice).

Some users say they have protected their computers but have decided to keep their networks open as a passive protest of what they consider the exorbitant cost of Internet access.

If the search engine – a very unwilling party to the ruling – is not taking full advantage to err on the side of the collective good, it's worth asking if perhaps a passive protest is at play.

Juca Kfouri, Brazil's leading football journalist and a confidant of Pele, says people are staying away from football as a "Gandhi-type reaction, a passive protest against the state of Brazilian football which has lost all credibility because of mismanagement and corruption".

"They jumped, they influenced [goalkeeper Mattia] Perin, they are not passive," protested the Genoa manager Gian Piero Gasperini at full-time.

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This has students who are PCs up in arms; one student, Elizabeth Eberlin, has started a Facebook group, her generation's ultimate gesture of pointless, passive-aggressive protest, to complain about the move.

I promise, she won't look at the gift as any sort of passive-aggressive protest against her parenting.

I wore a bathing suit instead of a bikini as some sort of passive-aggressive protest against this humiliating romp.