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
• 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
• The teams will respond to 911 calls for nonviolent behavior crises or substance abuse help.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 15 May 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Since April 2019, many New Yorkers charged with misdemeanors and nonviolent felonies have been permitted to await their trial date at home without posting a bail amount.
  — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 27 July 2023
• Nichols is described in the letters as a nonviolent, unarmed subject who posed no significant threat to the officers.
  — Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
• The protests have been overwhelmingly nonviolent — with more praying than rioting — but a small group of people have set fire to vehicles.
  — André Spigariol, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Jan. 2023
• Both proposals mitigated the sentencing rules if the third felony was a nonviolent one.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 24 July 2023
• Almost half of these women have been charged with nonviolent offenses.
  — Dallas News, 6 Sep. 2022
• The inmates ranged from people convicted of murder to nonviolent offenders sent away for life.
  — Anat Rubin, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2023
• Inspired by the nonviolent ethos of the civil rights movement, the pair brought revelatory attention to the struggle of the nation’s farmworkers.
  — Nili Blanck, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
• Since the looting was nonviolent, most suspects will receive citations instead of jail time if they are caught, sheriff’s spokesperson Sgt.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 24 Oct. 2023
• Cash bail will no longer be a condition of release for all defendants in misdemeanor and nonviolent felony cases in one of the nation’s largest court systems starting Oct. 1.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2023
• And people were passionately, ferociously committed to the nonviolent movement, doing the sit-ins and all that sort of stuff.
  — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2023
• Your character falls to a bloodless, relatively nonviolent death (compared to the TV show), and your team takes a hit, losing some of its player characters.
  — WIRED, 8 Mar. 2023
• People in Jefferson County with certain nonviolent criminal records can start the process to get their records cleared at a legal clinic on Friday, June 2.
  — al, 26 Jan. 2023
• Critics of our study quickly brandished another recent (online) poll in the UK that purports a 66% level of support for nonviolent protests.
  — Time, 15 Nov. 2022
• Walker concluded that cracking down on violent protesters in this way could have a chilling effect on the rights of nonviolent ones.
  — Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 6 May 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024