How to Use civil disobedience in a Sentence

civil disobedience

noun

• In an act of civil disobedience, the family sent its tax money to an antiwar organization.
• A student organization is encouraging civil disobedience as a way to get the university to change its policies.
• The group used civil disobedience in the form of shutdowns and protests as a tactic to counter Indian rule.
  — NBC News, 2 Sep. 2021
• After bail was revoked, a judge found Mr. Lai guilty on a pair of civil disobedience charges and sentenced him to 14 months in prison.
  — Mark L. Clifford and L. Gordon Crovitz, WSJ, 25 Aug. 2022
• But as Shafer would soon learn, tiny-home living appealed to more than those with a taste for civil disobedience.
  — WIRED, 2 Sep. 2023
• Some fear that a lack of what the Black people in town perceive as justice could result in civil disobedience.
  — NBC News, 20 Oct. 2021
• Several labor unions called on their members to walk off the job in a show of civil disobedience.
  — Nicholas Bariyo, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2021
• Has any act of civil disobedience in the U.S. been as impactful in the 21st century?
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 28 Oct. 2021
• Some movie theaters stayed open in an act of civil disobedience.
  — Raf Casert, ajc, 27 Dec. 2021
• Others say protests and civil disobedience will be more fruitful than the electoral process.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 6 July 2021
• Alongside the protests, a civil disobedience campaign of strikes has paralysed large parts of the economy.
  — NBC News, 30 Mar. 2021
• In other words, the purpose of civil disobedience is to break the law and get arrested in order to make societal change.
  — Rosalyn R. Lapier, The Conversation, 12 July 2021
• In mid-March, the regime tried to stifle the civil disobedience movement by shutting down the mobile internet.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2021
• The protests have been peaceful, and have at times included civil disobedience.
  — Brooks Johnson, Star Tribune, 24 Apr. 2021
• The army takeover triggered widespread protests and the formation of a civil disobedience movement.
  — The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 11 Feb. 2022
• The military ordered dozens of arrests to clamp down on civil disobedience for the coup’s first anniversary.
  — Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2022
• Tomorrow, hundreds of activists plan a civil disobedience demonstration on the steps of the Supreme Court.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2022
• When her husband joined the civil disobedience movement and refused to work, a warrant was issued for his arrest.
  — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2022
• And civil disobedience campaigns continue throughout the country, with many shops and banks continuing to keep their doors closed in protest of the coup.
  — Yasir Abdullah, Kara Fox and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN, 31 Oct. 2021
• Nathan Maung's Kamayut Media covered the junta's arrest and killing of peaceful protesters, as well as the rise of the civil disobedience movement against the coup.
  — Sandi Sidhu, Anna Coren and Helen Regan, CNN, 11 June 2021
• Looking at the painting, Lazarus felt swept up in a bigger history of civil disobedience.
  — Kelsey Ables, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2022
• Ko Si Thu Aung, 24, who sells vintage clothes online, had not paid his bill since February in support of the civil disobedience movement.
  — New York Times, 15 Jan. 2022
• But seldom has a single song and dance turned into a collective act of civil disobedience.
  — Leily Nikounazar, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023
• On the first anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, he was arrested with a small group of protesters who blocked the entrance to the Holland Tunnel in an act of civil disobedience.
  — New York Times, 31 May 2021
• Many businesses and shops, meanwhile, remain shut in Khartoum and its twin city of Omdurman, in response to calls from the protest movement for strikes and civil disobedience.
  — Samy Magdy, ajc, 31 Oct. 2021
• The activist group engages in civil disobedience to draw attention to the climate crisis.
  — Isabelle Butera, USA TODAY, 18 July 2023
• Webb vowed to soon build a hydroponic system in a gesture of civil disobedience.
  — Susan Du and Reid Forgrave, Star Tribune, 4 June 2021
• Rabbi Dresner met King in 1962 at a jail in Albany, Ga., where the civil rights leader had been imprisoned for civil disobedience.
  — Emily Langer, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2022
• The stalemate has elicited protests, civil disobedience and arrests on Capitol Hill and beyond.
  — Donna M. Owens, Essence, 26 Aug. 2021
• Doctors have been at the forefront of a nationwide civil disobedience movement that has crippled the economy, and the regime has targeted health care workers from the start.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024