Sentence examples for quiet resistance from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Nunn said he had grown weary of policy statements accompanied by quiet resistance.

Following the Cortex initiative, some of us have witnessed quiet resistance to pre-registration from other journals.

Ms. Farmer's Babe, in sleek blue silk, has killer legs and a marvelous, inscrutable smile that expresses both a soft welcome and a quiet resistance.

"The Vegetarian" reads as a parable about quiet resistance and its consequences; it's also a ruminative probing of Korean culture, in which questions of agency and conformity have particular resonance.

The anonymous author of the New York Times's essay, titled I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump administration, says that many officials across government are working inside the administration as part of a "quiet resistance".

Though it's possible for people to take an unhealthy "outsider's perspective of their bodies," Gervais says, she suggests "that Instagram offers a quiet resistance to the barrage of perfect images that we face" in the traditional media.

"If it had been me, I would have taken the course of quieter resistance.

Police forces didn't hesitate to use violence against demonstrators and protesters, but in the face of their quiet civil resistance, the overblown physical techniques of force and brutality lost their power.

Nilekani has faced quiet resentment and resistance from inside the government.

Nothing has been proven either way and the project has gone quiet amid local resistance and Mr Richardson's unsuccessful presidential run.

After meeting with government leaders and members of Parliament here on Thursday morning, Mrs. Clinton will travel to Yangon and meet the Nobel Peace Prize-winning opposition leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, at the house where she spent years under arrest as a symbol of quiet but determined resistance to military dictatorship.