How to Use nonviolent in a Sentence

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• He argued that nonviolent drug offenders should receive shorter sentences.
• His insistence on nonviolent protest continues to influence activists pushing for civil rights and social change.
  — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Jan. 2022
• Its seizure of power provoked nationwide nonviolent demonstrations, which security forces have quashed with deadly force.
  — Elaine Kurtenbach, ajc, 7 Jan. 2022
• The 2020 bail reform law eliminated cash bail options for most nonviolent crimes and misdemeanors.
  — Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 14 Jan. 2022
• Beyond this surge in CCW arrests is an overwhelming disparity in the race of those arrested for nonviolent weapons charges.
  — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 12 Jan. 2022
• Walter pointed to research from Harvard University and argued that nonviolent protest is an effective tool for change.
  — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 8 Jan. 2022
• King wrote the letter after leading a nonviolent protest in 1963 in Alabama after he was arrested.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 13 Jan. 2022
• During these years, Greene repeatedly landed in jail for drug and other nonviolent crimes that his family believes were largely to support his addiction.
  — Jim Mustian, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Dec. 2021
• 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
• 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
• Pape’s team regularly surveys tens of thousands of American households with questions related to their political engagement and level of interest in both violent and nonviolent solutions.
  — Tom Dart, Chicago Tribune, 10 Sep. 2024
• The duo wore shirts displaying the logo for Just Stop Oil, a controversial environmental activism group known for its nonviolent demonstrations in protest of fossil fuels.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024