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Recent Examples of nonviolent Sister Kathleen Desautels with the Sisters of Providence championing nonviolent protest. Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 19 Jan. 2025 Jones, who has witnessed firsthand the devastation drugs can cause in families and communities, questions the fairness of lengthy prison sentences for nonviolent offenses. Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 19 Jan. 2025 President Biden on Friday commuted the sentences of nearly 2,500 inmates serving long prison terms for nonviolent drug offenses, the broadest commutation of individual sentences ever issued by an American president. Erica L. Green, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025 While a majority were charged with nonviolent misdemeanor crimes, some were accused of conspiring to use force to resist the peaceful transfer of power. Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for nonviolent 

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“Nonviolent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonviolent. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.

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