How to Use nonviolent in a Sentence

nonviolent

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• He argued that nonviolent drug offenders should receive shorter sentences.
• With nonviolent protests, Martin Luther King Jr. helped lead the movement to advance the rights of people of color.
  — CBS News, 31 Oct. 2022
• The arrest rate for nonviolent crimes remained flat at 2.1%.
  — Sarah Freishtat, Chicago Tribune, 27 Dec. 2022
• And that is what Mr. Trump and his allies were up to in 2020, through both violent and nonviolent means — and continue to be up to today.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 Sep. 2021
• The crime waves are the result of a decrease in arrests for nonviolent crime due to jails and prisons being overcrowded.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 14 Nov. 2023
• For example, in the 1930s, populism of the left took the form of communism and that of the right took the form of fascism while nonviolent revolutionary changes took place in the US and the UK.
  — Ray Dalio, TIME, 25 June 2024
• In the years that led up to his final crime, he was convicted of three nonviolent property crimes.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw | [e-mail], al, 28 Apr. 2022
• The teams will respond to 911 calls for nonviolent behavior crises or substance abuse help.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 15 May 2023
• The mob that broke into Hamilton Hall was not nonviolent, either.
  — The Editors, National Review, 2 May 2024
• The good news is that protests, litigation and moving to new states are nonviolent actions.
  — Doyle McManuswashington Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2022
• The group claims their actions are nonviolent, but the D.C. defendants injured a nurse while forcing their way into the clinic.
  — Garnet Henderson, ELLE, 6 May 2022
• The Morehouse board is pushing for nonviolent protests.
  — Gabriella Abdul-Hakim, ABC News, 16 May 2024
• In April, Biden used clemency to commute the sentences of 75 nonviolent drug offenders.
  — Michael D. Shear and, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2022
• With Teran described as a kind soul and proponent of nonviolent protest, some have suggested the weapon found near his body may have been planted.
  — Tyler Estep The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (tns), al, 24 Jan. 2023
• In May 2020, Bernice called on those protesting following the murder of George Floyd to use nonviolent measures.
  — Stephanie Kaloi, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2023
• But nonviolent first-time offenders who have not been accused of using the weapon in another crime rarely get serious prison time for the charges.
  — Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 2 June 2024
• The average for a nonviolent defendant was six to 12 months.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 28 June 2024
• To have to endure that for months and years and decades for nonviolent people who have no business being there in the first place — half the people in prison are nonviolent drug offenders.
  — Steve Appleford, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2024
• Cities nationwide had braced for demonstrations, but the protests were scattered and nonviolent.
  — Adrian Sainz, Chicago Tribune, 28 Jan. 2023
• By then she had already been arrested 16 times for nonviolent crimes.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• But Trudeau is using it to get rid of a political headache: the loud, noisome, but nonviolent blockade of bridges in Canada and the downtown of the nation’s capital.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 16 Feb. 2022
• As a candidate, Biden vowed to broadly use the clemency powers of the presidency for nonviolent crimes.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 23 Dec. 2023
• Stone and his supporters had publicly claimed to be outraged that, as a man in his 60s charged with nonviolent crimes, he was roused by heavily armed officers in a dawn raid.
  — Jon Swaine, Dalton Bennett, Anchorage Daily News, 30 July 2022
• In its first argument of the new term, the Supreme Court heard a case on Monday that explored a provision of a law aimed at reducing prison sentences for certain nonviolent drug crimes.
  — Abbie Vansickle, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2023
• If a federal judge signs off on the deal, Mr. Biden will be placed in a two-year diversion program for nonviolent offenders convicted of gun crimes and will face no jail time.
  — Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 21 June 2023
• And – and they're certainly entitled to due process of law for any nonviolent activities that day.
  — CBS News, 17 Mar. 2024
• Kardashian helped Alice Marie Johnson, a woman who was sentenced to life in prison for a nonviolent drug offense.
  — Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com, 25 Mar. 2022
• That same year, 83% of arrests in the county were for nonviolent offenses, most related to mental health and substance use issues.
  — Dallas News, 24 Jan. 2023
• In 2019, New York state passed legislation removing or limiting the use of cash bail against defendants accused of many misdemeanors or nonviolent offenses.
  — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 24 Nov. 2024
• While December might feel like an exercise in troubleshooting and nonviolent communication, there are also things working in your favor.
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024