act of resistance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofactandresistance
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act
noun
uk/ækt/us/ækt/
something that ...
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resistance
noun
uk/rɪˈzɪs.təns/us/rɪˈzɪs.təns/
the act of fighting against something that is attacking you, or refusing to ...
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(Definition ofactandresistancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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And it was anactofresistanceagainst what seemed like an ascendant materialism.
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Writing thus became a compromising activity rather than anactofresistance.
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Having made the distinction between active and passive resistance, he stressed that any form of refusal constituted anactofresistanceor at least non-conformity.
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Howe'sactofresistance, however, risks folding in on itself and becoming a valorization of a silenced-ness that remains, in the end, silenced.
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However, this says little about the locals who may have been disillusioned with their religious leaders and therefore may have gone to missionaries as anactofresistanceand subversion.
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That arises with anyactofresistanceat any level, since escalation begins with the first warlike act.
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This was the lastactofresistanceby the indigenous people to occur within the limits of the town.
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Others believe that the act of making craft can be anactofresistance.
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These new feminisms posit that the ability to make autonomous choices about self-expression can be an empoweringactofresistance, not simply internalized oppression.
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The movement of sanism is anactofresistanceamong those who identify as mad, consumer survivors, and mental health advocates.
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Other acts of resistance were more peaceful, but equally organized.
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The frequency of group separations complicates hard and fast distinctions between individual acts of resistance and collective action.
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The student uprising is hailed by many as a valiantactofresistanceagainst the military dictatorship, and therefore as a symbol of resistance to tyranny.
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A group of women, part of a worldwide group of linguists who facilitate human communication with alien races, create a new language for women as anactofresistance.
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Clearly, many of these acts of resistance were intended to break the prestige of the dominant class, race and gender.
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