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 Translation for 'passive resistance' from English to Slovak
SYNO nonviolence | nonviolent resistance | passive resistance
pol.
pasívny odpor {m}
passive resistance
Partial Matches
letargický {adj}passive
pasívny {adj}passive
odovzdaný osudu {adj}passive
nečinný {adj}passive
jazyk.
trpný rod {m}
passive voice
jazyk.
trpné príčastie {n}
passive participle
jazyk.
pasívum {m} [trpný rod slovesa]
passive voice
odolnosť {f}resistance
odpor {m}resistance
pol.
odbojové hnutie {n}
resistance
materiál
odolnosť {f} proti / voči nárazu
impact resistance
materiál
tepelná odolnosť {f}
heat resistance
materiál
odolnosť {f} proti / voči chladu
cold resistance
tech.
odporové vykurovacie teleso {n}
resistance heater
tech.
odporový ohrievač {m}
resistance heater
materiál
odolnosť {f} proti / voči teplu
heat resistance
pol.
hnutie {n} odporu
resistance movement
pol.
odbojový {adj}
resistance [attr.]
pol.
odbojová organizácia {f}
resistance organization
elektr.
odporový {adj}
resistance [attr.]
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Usage Examples English
  • Ibrahim Rugova, first President of the Republic of Kosovo pursued a policy of passive resistance which succeeded in maintaining peace in Kosovo during the earlier wars in Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia during the early 1990s.
  • In September 1923, the deteriorating economic conditions led Chancellor Gustav Stresemann to call an end to the passive resistance in the Ruhr.
  • Griffith argued that Irish nationalists should follow this "policy of passive resistance – with occasional excursions into the domain of active resistance".
  • The occupation of the Ruhr from 1923-24 by French forces, due to the Weimar Republic's failure to continue paying reparations from World War I, provoked passive resistance, which saw production in the factories grind to a halt.
  • Apart from active and passive resistance among the Congolese, the colonial regime over time also elicited internal criticism and dissent.

  • These people lived by a code of non-violence and passive resistance (see Nunuku-whenua), which led to their near-extinction at the hands of Taranaki Māori invaders in the 1830s.
  • Flower power was a slogan used during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a symbol of passive resistance and nonviolence.
  • And so began his practice of passive resistance.
  • The album yielded strong reviews and the New Zealand hit "Parihaka", based on a Māori village known for its campaign of passive resistance to European occupiers.
  • There was passive resistance to the occupation and the economy suffered, contributing further to the German hyperinflation.

  • Attempts by the government to resume talks about reparations in May and June 1923 failed as Poincaré refused to negotiate unless passive resistance was ended first.
  • In September 1923 when the DVP Chancellor Gustav Stresemann announced the end of "passive resistance" and the occupation of the Ruhr ("Ruhrkampf") under the grounds that hyperinflation had destroyed the economy and the "Ruhrkampf" must end in order to save Germany, the DNVP found itself joining forces with the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in denouncing the end of the "Ruhrkampf" as treason and as a cowardly surrender to "a half-sated irreconcilable France".
  • Compared with the medieval fortified towers they replaced, bastion fortifications offered a greater degree of passive resistance and more scope for ranged defence in the age of gunpowder artillery.
  • The Germans responded with passive resistance and hyperinflation; the French gained very little of the reparations they wanted.
  • According to a manifesto drawn up by the Second Luddite Congress (April 1996; Barnesville, Ohio), neo-Luddism is "a leaderless movement of passive resistance to consumerism and the increasingly bizarre and frightening technologies of the Computer Age".

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