peaceful revolution

collocation in English

meaningsofpeacefulandrevolution

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peaceful
adjective
uk
/ˈpiːs.fəl/us
/ˈpiːs.fəl/
without ...
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revolution
noun
uk
/ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən/us
/ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən/
a change in the way a country is governed, usually to a different political system and often using violence ...
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(Definition ofpeacefulandrevolutionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Then, suddenly, we have apeacefulrevolution.
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A switch-over to green taxation will be acceptable as a form ofpeacefulrevolution.
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I shall be happy if he succeeds in carrying out apeacefulrevolution.
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Of course, ourpeacefulrevolutionhas had its share of failures and shortcomings.
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He advocatespeacefulrevolutionusing civil disobedience.
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It needs apeacefulrevolutionin order to change productive structures, the economy, trade, agriculture, institutions and education.
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I think there is a tendency to over-emphasise that we are fighting a quiet andpeacefulrevolution.
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The effect of this has been to stimulate a sort ofpeacefulrevolutionstretching across a continent.
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The amazing achievement of this mass movement of 10 million workers, farm labourers, and members of the intelligentsia was apeacefulrevolution.
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Those people now have the right to safeguard the free and democratic way of life they have won by theirpeacefulrevolution.
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One labour movement philosophy ofpeacefulrevolutionis known as syndicalism.
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During the course of our present revolution which was the most orderly andpeacefulrevolutionin the world's history, unavoidable friction occurred between small groups of political enemies.
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Apeacefulrevolutionis, if between two sides, one faction is not willing to use armed force.
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If we do not understand the rights of these people and help them along the road topeacefulrevolution, they will go underground and achieve their emancipation by violence.
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He thought a vast national organization, composed of energetic young men from every locality, could bring about apeacefulrevolutionin a few years.
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