unresisting

Some of the insurgents said that when it ceased, they heard the shrieks of women, and saw some garments fluttering in the air, as a party of men bore away no unresisting burdens.

The sound of the trumpet wakes Judah no longer, and her despised children are now but the unresisting victims of hostile and military oppression.

An unresisting victim is not a pleasant thing; whether the murder is done decorously in the drawing- room, or brutally on the highway, there should be a struggle to give some plausible excuse for taking a life.

Now, indeed, was Tarzan sure that this was a sleep adventure, and so grinned largely as the giant gorilla bore him, unresisting, away.

He sprang upon Buck, and twice his teeth sank into his unresisting foe and ripped and tore the flesh to the bone.

will you suffer us to be butchered like unresisting sheep?"

Mrs Lammle laughed in her gayest manner, and, removing her Georgiana's unresisting hands, and playfully holding them in her own at arms' length, sometimes near together and sometimes wide apart, went on:

But when police officers fire at unresisting civilians, it takes a trial and three months, often longer, to give them a life sentence.

A few generations later, within the narrator's lifetime, the situation seems to have improved for some of the humans, who are allowed to lead a relatively peaceful, safe and independent life within the Preserve in exchange for their unresisting availability to act as incubators.

The word is defined in Merriam-Webster's as 'an act or instance of killing a number of usually helpless or unresisting human beings'.

Such an actor in the role of the protagonist becomes the unresisting mouthpiece of the god, uttering sounds which he barely comprehends but which are reflections of the awesome glimpse of that transitional gulf, the seething cauldron of the dark world--will and psyche.

Three cars boxed them in; 10 people dressed in black pulled an unresisting Abdulrahman out of the car.

We get borne along, out of sight in the press, unresisting, till we get the chance to drop behind unnoticed, or to dodge down a side street, pause, breathe freely and take our bearings, or to push ahead, outdistance our shadows, lead them a dance, so that when at length they catch up with us, they look at one another askance, knowing we have a secret we shall never share.

The court found that the officer's purported conduct in repeatedly punching the unresisting inmate and striking him in the groin was a malicious and sadistic use of force intended to cause pain, in violation of the Eighth Amendment, not a good-faith use of force necessary to maintain order or discipline in a prison environment, regardless of the severity of the resulting injury to the inmate.