As a result, the cases now in the courts appear to have created something of a quandary for the nonviolent opposition.

Last year he won election to the office with vague promises to end the war, which many Algerians assumed meant talking to the nonviolent opposition.

"We have a very vast repertoire of nonviolent, extra-parliamentary opposition," he said.

The crisis has linked the interests of Haiti's nonviolent opposition to armed rebels who have set their sights on the capital, Port-au-Prince.

My idea is to stay in opposition, learning to be an effective, nonviolent opposition, oriented to the ecology and nonviolence.

India, which set a standard for nonviolent opposition to colonial rule, now administers Kashmir with martial law and three quarters of a million troops.

Some 250 have been freed, but more than 1,000, some old and frail, remain imprisoned for nonviolent opposition.

The SMC by 1977 found itself constrained by mounting nonviolent opposition.

Most, but not all, of the responsibility for the failure to reach an agreement lies with the leaders of Haiti's nonviolent political opposition.

"Armed struggle" is essential, he and others insisted, because there is scarcely a chance left open for nonviolent opposition.