pacifist

The church excommunicated him in 1901, unhappy with his novel Resurrection and Tolstoy's espousal of Christian anarchist and pacifist views.

A lifelong pacifist, Mr. Watson had become vegetarian at the age of 14, after witnessing the slaughter of a pig.

Having overlaid the Irish Catholicism of his childhood with a dose of Tibetan Buddhism, he warms to the pacifist strain in the Asian creed.

The French-speaking province has long had a pacifist streak, born of past reluctance to fight for the British empire.

But the country's pacifist constitution does not allow it to intercept a missile if it is clearly heading elsewhere.

In line with its officially pacifist constitution, Japan maintains a 'maritime self-defense force' rather than a navy.

That may not sound like much, but such operations would have been unthinkable to pacifist Japan as recently as a decade ago.

Japan responded with a rare show of force for the normally pacifist nation, sending naval ships and aircraft to patrol the area.

Besides, Mr Brown is no sandal-wearing pacifist: he was quick to back replacing Britain's independent nuclear deterrent.

It was the first non-confidence motion in the upper house since Japan's current pacifist Constitution took effect in 1947.

And he wants the pacifist article nine of the constitution to be revised.

It is, as a monk of the pacifist Jain religion explained to me, "paap-ni-bhoomi" : the sinful land.

naturally , the newly pacifist machine wants out of the military , so he escapes.

RIDDING the world of nuclear weapons has long been a cause of the pacifist left.

This will confuse your antagonist, as you're not known for being a pacifist.

Applied to foreign politics, pacifism either stops being pacifist or becomes appeasement.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, like his popular predecessor, Junichiro Koizumi, is pushing to revise the pacifist constitution.

Modernisers in both parties tend also to support a more muscular role for Japan abroad, which means revising the pacifist constitution.

Consequently, Russell's own prejudice and short points cannot change the fact that he is a pacifist.

The Russian declared himself speechless with admiration for Britten's pacifist "War Requiem" , which the commissars deplored.

Obviously, Blair has not followed Macmurray all the way to his pacifist and Quaker destination.

After all, the pacifist Buddhism that prohibits killing is comparably more humane, isn't it?

As a pacifist, Sometimes you don't dare revel your true identities and real thoughts.

When Pacifist movements need to prioritize their agendas, it's clear that ending the occupation comes before protecting women.

Mr Obama has never claimed to be a pacifist.

As a pacifist, Tee Watt Kaa refuses to wield any weapon, even in self-defense.

Mr Abe favours rewriting the pacifist constitution that America imposed upon Japan after defeat in the second world war.

Mr Awad is a former fighter from a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, not a lily-livered pacifist.

They want to amend the pacifist constitution so that Japan can play a role in the world commensurate with its economic might.

Ultimately he wants to revise the pacifist constitution.

His causes have included a long public campaign, now closer to fruition than ever, to rewrite the postwar pacifist constitution.

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals.

The mission, it said, breached the country's pacifist constitution.

It is based on humanitarian, pacifist, socialist principles which determine our organization and structures.

The pacifist part of Japan's constitution lies in its brief Article 9.

The Ozieri culture (according to mainstream archaeology) were farmers that didn't travel, were fairly pacifist, and built dolmens.

I haven't got one, " said Eustace. " I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in fighting.

Some 2, 000 are in Afghanistan, where Italy's engagement is a source of anguished misgiving for the radical and pacifist left.

He becomes a pacifist; he becomes a war resistor.

He adds that, as an Iranian, he is very happy the crisis has ended in a pacifist way and that it is not important who is labeled the winner.

It is the first time that constitutionally pacifist Japan has deployed the shield.

Moreover, he is a pacifist.

A majority heeded the Dalai Lama's counsel to find a pacifist middle way.

He can also claim sound judgment: though no pacifist, he opposed the Iraq war from the start.

On the other hand, Europeans are not as pacifist as they are sometimes portrayed, nor even as anti-gun.

The pacifist Social Democrats oppose all American military bases in Japan, a view the DPJ does not share.

My brother, the pacifist, He goes out and he gets ruined and still talks non-resistance.

Others in the DPJ firmly believe in Japan's pacifist constitution.

The review of the restrictions on weapons exports is politically sensitive in Japan because of the country's pacifist constitution.

Macmurray was a Christian socialist who after World War II became a pacifist and joined the Society of Friends.

The computer science pioneer Alan Turing was not a strict pacifist;

to rewrite the pacifist constitution