Sentence examples for public disobedience from inspiring English sources

The French culture was less about bingeing and public disobedience, but they had huge problems with alcohol and liver problems, and they established a principle in the European courts.

There was some public disobedience fuelled by treatment in the shelters, and protests broke out (particularly in Salem).

Ms Howard-Taylor's response went unrecorded, as also when Mr Taylor caned the couple's daughter in public for disobedience.Ms Howard-Taylor was not, by a long chalk, the first big lady to share her husband.

When the first intifada started in late 1987 as acts of public civil disobedience, he became one of its intellectual chiefs as author of its demands and many of its key pamphlets.

Later that year Russell was charged with inciting the public to civil disobedience, and jailed in Brixton prison by a magistrate who told him that he was "old enough to know better".

When the tools of nonviolent resistance — boycotts, public speech, civil disobedience — overlap with the domain in which they are applied, they are effective.

In the past three years, our tactics have included civil disobedience, public account closings and a 200-mile walk across Pennsylvania to PNC's national headquarters in Pittsburgh.

"We believe that public and willful disobedience of this law is going to make it unenforceable, and that's our goal," Olson told the Arizona Daily Sun.

He has been arrested several times for civil disobedience during public protests.

The 20th century was so horribly bloody that it has been easy to overlook the potency of peaceful boycotts, strikes, civil disobedience and public protests in many of the greatest upheavals of the past hundred years.

But it was soon condemned as a public display of ecclesiastical disobedience, because the father, the Rev. Dr. Thomas W. Ogletree, is a minister in the United Methodist Church, which does not allow its clergy to perform same-sex weddings.