Sample Sentences forpacifist (editor-reviewed)
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The pacifist spoke out against the war.pacifist = someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes
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I'm a pacifist, if you want to know the truth. (source)
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The government had ended most graduate school deferments; the waiting lists for the National Guard and Reserves were impossibly long; my health was solid; I didn't qualify for CO status-no religious grounds, no history as a pacifist. (source)
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Is he a man of great physical courage—so great that he will have no half-conscious misgivings about the real motives of his pacifism? (source)pacifism = opposition to violence as a means of settling disputes
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I'm a pacifist, a good-natured guy, I've never laid a hand on anybody since I was a kid. (source)pacifist = someone opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes
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Desperation turned me from a pacifist into an extremist.† (source)
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How did a pacifist become a field marshal?† (source)
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But I was finally converted when I encountered the letters of two Quaker brothers, farmers from New York State, whose ideological convictions overcame their pacifism and caused them to enlist, leaving behind a widowed mother.† (source)
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Y.T.'s grandpa, who was there for a while, told him that the Nipponese took over Vietnam during the war and treated it with the cruelty that was their trademark before we nuked them and they discovered that they were pacifists.† (source)
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Is this not a pacifistic religion, this thing you have been spreading?† (source)
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There were pacifist zones where no player-versus-player combat was allowed, and player-versus-player zones where it was every avatar for themselves.† (source)
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Creeds like pacifism and anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind.† (source)
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The group's membership was a small, eclectic mix of pacifists, anarchists, vegetarians, and libertarians brought together by a commitment to nonviolent political action.† (source)
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But your biggest mistake, I feel, is that you picked a pacifistic creed with which to oppose an active one.† (source)
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Thanks to my dad, a pacifist-type god who didn't allow fighting in his sacred places, I could sometimes disarm everyone in a wide circle around me, blasting their weapons right out of their hands.† (source)
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Written in 1938 when pacifism was anathema to the American left and most of the center, it went to the printers in the spring of 1939 and was published on September third—ten days after the Nazi-Soviet pact, two days after the start of World War II.† (source)
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