The present booklet, introducing the Bureau's new series on Non-Violent Action in Tension Areas, distinguished by green covers, critically examines pacifist terminology.
This type of action is used constantly in our own communities, and the histories of western peoples present us with a large number of examples of the use of non-violent action in political and revolutionary conflicts.
Even the argument in Aldous Huxley's Ends and Means, that we can achieve no desired goal by means which are inconsistent with it, still regards non-violent action as a means for achieving some other end, rather than an end in itself.
But Mr. Monroe and the rest of the Cabinet preferred a milder course; and France and Great Britain ventured to express to this country a hope that no violent actionwould be precipitately taken.
Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action.
But while Piero, with a serene nature, chose to represent unemotional figures like the sculptures of the ancient Egyptians, the restless and impetuous spirit of Signorelli preferred scenes of violent action, and energetic movement.
The influence of Pollaiuolo can be observed in the sculptures on the gradino of the throne, little nude figures in violent action.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "violent action" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
