How To Use Activist In A Sentence

It's all a lot of fuss and nonsense got up by some pesky civil rights activists, some of whom you can find here at Stand.
Just because the American people are disgusted with higher taxes, bigger government, left wing liberal give away policies and pacifist foreign policy attitudes, this idiot thinks the Tea Party activist is in someway trying to bring the country down. Clinton warns against violent anti-government attitude
Helen Hunt Jackson was a known activist who campaigned for the rights of the Native American Indians.
The Global Communications Group links ecological and other political activists via the Net.
Activists are aiming to build on the general feeling over the issue to get support across the underground for the dispute.

The detention of at least two of the three lawyers in recent days appears to be linked to recent developments regarding the blind, self-taught legal activist Chen Guangcheng.
The Japanese fisheries agency said activists on Thursday obstructed Japanese whaling in the Antarctic by throwing bottles of what it described as butyric acid onto whaling ships, as well as flashing laser lights and using water cannon. EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
We're all victims of the same policy to dispossess us, " says Muhammad Korshan, a West Bank Bedou activist.
This is increasingly a focus of activist shareholders, including hedge funds.
Activists who have fought land rights battles inspired by the Constitution are a weary, dispirited lot.
The hotel is owned by well-known Democratic activist Joe Cesare.
Many AIDS activists have opposed home test kits, because they feared people would receive inadequate counseling.
So how are churches today seeking to nurture the next generation of Christian social activists?
The alternative of drag-racing, where hounds chase a sack of aniseed instead of a fox, is encouraged by these activists.
Over a sixty-year career as a writer, actor, coproducer, and activist, Fay Kanin was awarded several Emmys and Peabodys, the ACLU Bill of Rights Award, the Crystal Award from Women in Film, the Burning Bush Award from the University of Judaism, and nominations for Oscar and Tony awards. Fay Kanin.
The forum gives anti-globalization activists and civil society leaders a chance promote progressive causes. At Close of World Social Forum, Activists Draw Inspiration from Uprisings
(Bush and Dr Cheney legacy), not just lock it up in cupboards. another inspiration for my writing is this innovative musician and activist fighting racism, Islamo-phobia and injustice head on through his "Rhythm and beats". although his documentaries and DIY cook book music genre are termed irreverence bordering treason against queen and country and glorifying terrorism among the Pakistani and Muslim youth of Britain, But it is merely exposing the truth about the sentiments of equality, discrimination, integration and assimilation. Pak Tea House
After she is freed from slavery, she becomes a teacher, writer, and activist for the black race and for women's rights.
The vote - 110 to 46 in the House and 31 to 8 in the Senate - came as mayors, town managers, social service agencies, and local activists across Massachusetts began to digest the massive cuts the budget proposal calls for, including up to a 15 percent cut in noneducation local aid for municipalities. CapeCodToday Blog Chowder
‘Community is celebrated, especially by urban community leaders and activists,’ Patterson writes, but ‘the truth is that Afro-Americans lead the nation in their unconnectedness to community support groups.’
Antiwar activists shouldn't worry that their concerns will be given short shrift.
The programme would be organised till December 29 and the party activists would mob the collectorate on December 30, Ranga Rao said. Archive 2006-12-01
Getty Images The membership of Tom Coburn R., Okla. in the group prompted a skirmish with antitax activists. Senate 'Gang' Hashes Out Deficit Plan
And the title essay picks up this theme: "Let the dedicated activist never overshadow the dedicated servant of literature — the matchless storyteller. Books: Sontag's Last Stands
These activist judges assume that the judiciary is a super-legislature of moral philosophers. McCain to vote against Sotomayor
Tens of thousands of anti-abortion activists are set to take part in Monday's annual " March on Washington" to mark the 34th anniversary of a Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.
“There is still room to change at the small scale,” said an AIDS activist, sipping juice in a teashop. Global Voices in English » Myanmar: New policy requires HIV groups to register
A student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before becoming a social activist in Latin America, Berenson was arrested on a bus in Peru in 1995 and charged with belonging to the MRTA.
The 1970s seemed to be the age of the groupuscules, the tiny, fissiparous radical activist groups which spread across Western Europe.
This fusion of political correctness and relevance may be the next big thing to rock mathematics education, appealing as it does to political activists and to ethnic chauvinists.
I called Hania, an animal rights activist who had helped me after I adopted Shaitan. Day of Honey
Activists covered cars in paint stripper and slashed tires.
An activist, our God had little time to sit idly, "pavilioned in splendor and girded in praise! Michael Henry Adams: Grace Bromm's All-American Style
We have, after all, had recent experience of unrepresentative grassroot activists choosing a party leader. Times, Sunday Times
To develop the tools of social transformation she convened an activist community of pastors, preachers, biblical exegetes, theologians and theology students, laymen and laywomen to develop tools to guide the Christian churches in an engagement with the pandemic. Karen Torjesen: Feminist Theology In The 21st Century
There was crisis too within the republican movement, as a generation of prisoners was entering a second decade in prison, and a third generation of republican activists since 1969 were becoming involved.
City leaders and local activists are urging residents to read the report and attend the sessions.
In two thousand six, the United States Tennis Association named the tennis center in honor of tennis champion and activist Billie Jean King.
The impunity of police and denial of due process to victims is disturbing to rights activists.
(Read The Observer's extensive coverage here.) "Save The Hotel" activist Gregory Jones once took issue with my use of the term "fleabag" to describe the dowdy would-be landmark on Seventh Avenue. Win Trip To 'Luxurious' Hotel Pennsylvania!
A political activist for 25 years who has twice run for a seat in the U.S.
By the way, in case you never thought about it, “Reds” is an invidious term calculated to dehumanize radical activists. Dry up the tears for that golden period in US Journalism that never was
He wanted to get out of the old activist scene and transform himself into a modern, successful businessman.
Its second task, in short, is to make activists of baptismal initiates.
In the 1830s this provoked significant tension between antislavery parliamentarians and activists in the country.
Now, we have a true activist investor in Dan Loeb whose reputation is as good as Einhorn's.
Bona fides: Longtime activist for Darfur who just returned from a week-long trip in the southern half of the country and briefed President Obama at a White House meeting and Sen. Richard Lugar on Capitol Hill earlier in the day. Celebvocate: George Clooney reps for Darfur
A panel of lawyers, academics, consultants, writers and civil rights activists selected the winners.
For this play to work, as it did so well in Cunningham, you need a strong, activist local community whose denizens talk across partisan political lines.
A number of approaches to Shelley's 1819 have emphasized the distance between apparently activist poems -- The Mask of Anarchy, for exampleand what is deemed Shelley's High Style: presumably aestheticist, representationalist poetry of the "lyric I. Intervention & Commitment Forever!: Shelley in 1819, Shelley in Brecht, Shelley in Adorno, Shelley in Benjamin
You can see Indian and Chinese activists discuss government plans to dam the Yarlong Tsangpo (or Brahmaputra) on the Tibetan Plateau and in Northeast India. Peter Bosshard: Global Grassroots Network Emerges From "Rivers for Life" Meeting in Mexico
In two thousand six, the United States Tennis Association named the tennis center in honor of tennis champion and activist Billie Jean King.
Activists have to talk to every member and recruit non-members to the union.
So far, this is a case where I hope gay-rights activists and true liberals -- those who believe in liberty -- will take a deep breath before joyfully exploiting the bathroom balagan as an additional reason to oppose the Senator. What's the Connection?: Hypocrisy Redux
Canadian negotiators have placed themselves firmly in the activist camp.
The complainant was an officious intermeddler, a busybody, the town scold, an anti-Christian activist named Darren Lund who had an axe to grind, and Andreachuk gave it to him. Ezra Levant: June 2008 Archives
Tony, a room-service attendant for nine years, says he was harassed and threatened because he was one of the activists organizing workers.
It drives me crazy that right-on activists who would go nuts if they heard people use race or gender based slurs can happily joke about bogans.
The book presents challenges for activists of many different political hues.
Energy and Global Warming News for 11/12/09: Germany to help develop Moroccan solar-thermal energy projects; Clinton calls Copenhagen "steppingstone"; Military's growing thirst for oil is costing lives - report The Seattle activists 'coming of age in Cophenhagen will be very disobedient Climate Progress
Our solidarity, adventuresomeness and aplomb are the acknowledgment to the blackmail of terror ", it was hosted by actress-activist Nandita Das and directed by one-film old Feroz Abbas Khan. The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public
Burke not only is a positive promising political activist, moreover is "only for the substantive free realistic security" the political theoretician which but cogitation.
Despite the discouraging times, activists continue to struggle on many fronts.
The word "crip" is part of disability culture, disabled artists, activists, and writers are turning it inside out and putting "crip" back out there as an empowering word. Cory Silverberg: When it Comes to Sex, Are Your Sins Invalid?
“Korean society has a responsibility to help them,” said Samuel Kang Seong-joon, an activist of the archdiocese’s Catholic Human Rights Committee.
The activists inserted an arm into each lockbox and locked themselves to each other.
Both Milton Friedman's theory of monetarism and the rational expectations school of macroeconomics challenged the effectiveness of activist monetary policy.
The book is littered with one-liners and anecdotes that will be familiar to activists on the Left.
Climate change doubt – seen by Tea Party activists as a litmus test of conservative credentials – is not, as it turns out, energising the Republican masses. Changing climate of Republican opinion doesn't agree with Tea Party
In 1963, Sisulu was tried with Mandela and other activists for planning acts of sabotage and revolution.
Critical scholars and activists have long argued that nationality, ethnicity and religious identification are merely historical conveniences, accidents of birth.
The paragraph does not refer to Israel by name, but Palestinian activists at the conference have been using the term apartheid to describe its treatment of their countrymen. ANC Daily News Briefing
Few environmental activists would agree with that judgment.
The address, suited to the climate of 2002, was given by a well-known human rights activist.
Activists are also organising to get big delegations of students.
This allows an activist to observe and modify all web pages sent to a target's computer.
The activists were protesting plans by the hospital to trap up to 75 feral cats and turn them over to a local animal pound.
So Lindsay Lohan gets "floured" by anti-fur activists on arriving at a Paris nightclub for wearing whatelse, a fur stole. StyleCritics
Activists organize non-violent action, including consumer boycotts.
Once May Day is over, direct activists are to turn their attentions to a huge arms exhibition at the end of the summer.
Tea Party Express lost favor with many activists when its outspoken chairman, talk-radio host Mark Williams, wrote a "satirical" letter from the "colored people" of America to Abraham Lincoln, in which he extolled slavery. November elections will be big test of tea party's staying power
Nor was he in step with party activists, who often fussed about procedures and the setting up of committees. Times, Sunday Times
Gay activists are taking a cue from Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King.
We hate to over-emphasize the political experts and activists role in this for fear of navel-gazing, but in this case, they matter. It's Go Time for Pawlenty
Huge coal trucks have almost run Bonds's car off the road, and two local activists had their tires punctured when they went to file paperwork for a hearing.
Montreal peace activists still can't stop talking about the record-breaking turnout of the Feb. 15 anti-war march.
Activists say they were given repeated assurances by a chief inspector from the Metropolitan police that they would be shown to safety after the protest, which she described as non-violent and sensible. The Guardian World News
Dreams and dialectics Hippy and student activist continue to recognize each other as allies.
Even Chinese democracy activists and dissidents take the borders of China as an indivisible given.
The big difference between pacifists and the kind of activists that Jensen and Churchill are trying to spawn is that the pacifist says that he/she will do "whatever it takes" up to a point. Do "movements to bring about social and environmental justice always fail?"
Civil rights activist Barbara Arnwine says King's speech gave hope to so many.
Committed journalists teaming up with activists have exposed erring doctors, only to find that the police are not permitted to take action.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity---Martin Luther King Jr, American civil rights activist.
Prominent anti-abortion activists in the party had opposed the resolution, because it might prove embarrassing.
The activists reacted angrily and one had to be restrained. Times, Sunday Times
A video posted on Facebook by Syrian pro-democracy activists showed what it said were five dead young men lying on stretchers in Sanamein as men weeped around them. Troops open fire as protests explode across Syria
Further discussion takes place on the Coordination Committee, the samanvaya samiti, comprised of intellectuals and activists from outside the movement who contribute to forging wider links.
His partner is his father, Mel, the gay-rights activist who, before coming out, was an evangelical minister who ghostwrote books for Billy Graham and Pat Robertson. Delicious White Whine
The column was written by a collective of women and some men, many of them prominent academics and media activists in their own right.
The police say they suspect the attack was carried out by animal rights activists.
But the activists said the Joker banner was typical of what they called escalating attacks on the president _ from depictions of Obama as Hitler at rallies to South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie!" outburst during Obama's recent nationally televised address to Congress. Undefined
His father, Leo, was a successful lawyer and Conservative activist.
About 150 activists were arrested in Fortnum & Mason despite holding what Chief Inspector Claire Clark described as a non-violent and "sensible" demonstration. Met police are accused of pursuing a 'vindictive' case against UK Uncut tax protesters
In our region, the home is precisely where the most widespread and alarming forms of violence against women, adolescents and children - such as femicide, rape and domestic abuse - occur," the activist said. IPS Inter Press Service
Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous.
There were activist firebrands getting into loud political conversations with people who just wanted to belt back drinks with parasols in them.
New York's Gay Activists Alliance, dedicated to nonviolent protest, has provided youthful leadership for homophiles of varying ideological persuasions.
His latest book has a more activist agenda, albeit one that's cloaked as a continuation of his architecture lessons.
Such actions increased the enmity between the two groups of black activists and led to more conflict.
Activists are planning a lobby of the High Court in central London when the dates of the trial are known.
Roberts is a devout Catholic and is married to an ardent pro-life activist.
It was in quangos and organizations outside the direct control of the government that women activists were most successful in struggling for better economic and political opportunities.
Sarah James and other Gwich'in and Inupiat activists at an Arctic Refuge rally in DC. Subhankar Banerjee: Earth Activism: What We Don't Want
And scarily, it is green activists who are conniving at the abuse and murder of rural Britain.
What follow are personal accounts and commentaries by activists about the protests and police actions.
The final section of the book covers the beginning of the resistance from below, among the corporals and sergeants of the old army, Islamic activists and Arab nationalists.
Perhaps because of this, but also because of the devotion his mother showed as a trade union activist before her death from a brain haemorrhage, Larsson demanded very high standards of behaviour of himself and others. Stieg Larsson, My Friend by Kurdo Baksi – review
Box 5. 1, pages 112-113, details the personal characteristics and background of two extraordinary extremist-activists.
In the North, there have been cases where the enthusiasm of activists has turned to downright intimidation of workers from other parties.
Mandela rubbed noses with activists in Maori "hongi" custom and raised his fist from the pulpit to cries of "Amandla" as he spoke at an Anglican cathedral on the first day of a state visit to New ANC Daily News Briefing
Who knew that not having any spine to oppose blatantly bad Bush II SCOTUS appointments (at least we will hear no more old-school 'activist judge' hooey, which is something I guess) would turn out so badly for the incompetent Dems? Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
Until relatively recently, organized religion has left environmental protection to environmental activists, concerned scientists and political figures.
Besides, anti-choice activists exist to control women and their life choices.
Yet others argue that demand is the key, as select implicit or explicit discrimination by party activists.
Why is the fugitive slave, the fiery orator, the political activist, the abolitionist always represented as a black man?
Doctors and activists fear that they will be deserted as the regime troops make further inroads, and say they are awaiting retribution. Times, Sunday Times
Local author and health activist Protasia Torkington officially opened the play area today.
This isn't surprising when even the groups he does encounter, such as the peace activists, also seem to see themselves as dabblers and eccentrics rather than as committed individuals.
Reuters GREENPEACE PROTEST: Security personnel and policemen try to restrain a Greenpeace activist in Mumbai, India, Thursday. Today's WSJ in Photos: Aug. 21, 2008
Activist tendencies aid and abet stage 1, having experiences.
Groups at the march ranged from union activists to medical students wearing their white coats to three generations of family members.
Let me suggest another topic: the recent violent murder of two lesbian activists in Oregon.
An anti-nuclear activist with Greenpeace Germany picks through discarded tires to measure a more insidious waste—high radiation levels on the banks of the Techa River in Russia's Ural Mountains.
Now, I guess that some of those figures have been pulled out of the ether (hands shaken?) but my main observation is that with apparently double the “activists”, Labour has handed out less than half the leaflets, put up two-thirds of the numbers of the posters and made less than a third of the phone-calls that their nationalist opponents have managed. Never mind the quantity...
Unlike other funerals of known ANC leaders which are dominated by freedom songs, a church choir sang hymns for the activist.
The press, which Shas activists regard as particularly hostile to their party, was showered with abuse.
Rather, it was the product of years of activism and agitation on the part of activists from all walks of life.
Clinton's AIDS "czar" resigned after being criticized by gay activists for being weak.
Pro - Palestinian activists have sailed into the Gaza Strip defying an Israeli blockade.
But as an election is less than a year away, most political activists will prefer to save their energies for gauging public mood and speculation about who will be bed down politically with whom thereafter.
That pogrom followed allegations that a Muslim mob had been responsible for the deaths of Hindu activists.
Kamala has been a socialist activist for 10 years.
The Justice Department's Inspector General report released this week pulled few punches in admonishing the FBI for targeting anti-war groups and advocacy organizations with no apparent justification, and for placing non-violent activists in those groups on terrorist watch lists. Coleen Rowley: Inspector General Criticism Doesn't Faze FBI Raids on Midwestern Anti-war Activists
Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous.
Activists voted overwhelmingly for a conference motion attacking the victory at all costs mentality in the sport. The Sun
The historical lesson of activist fiscal policy is this: be modest about what we know and what we can achieve.
The only answer that I can conclude is that they did not trust the lefty activists that they themselves put into that court.
But many of these activists - despite having been hard at work painting the Democratic Party as a harborer of "abortionists" and Barack Obama as a supporter of "infanticide" - seem to be giving the John McCain campaign and the GOP a free pass. Chris Korzen: John McCain: Just How Pro-Life?
Ivor Smith was filmed torturing a cat by an animal rights activist.
The piece ends with Winerip cudgeling legalization activist Ethan Nadelmann (who -- gasp -- has a PhD from Harvard!) into admitting that he still, at ripe middle age, smokes pot -- and has even done so in the presence of children ... [pause for reader to make a call to protective services]. Daniel Denvir: I, Pot Smoker
In another similarity to a primary contest, political activists say a surprisingly large portion of the Iowa Republicans remain undecided.
Her subsequent position in the immigrant community as the proprietor of a cafe, however, is more closely aligned with middle-class social workers than with the labor activists and suffragettes of the working class.
Certain middle-class commentators and activists have long looked down their noses at those who aspire to make loadsamoney or who want to leap up a class or two.
But asked about the emphasis on mothering, activists say it hasn't played a significant role in contemporary feminist antiwar organizing.
The activists could hear women moaning and crying out in pain.
Many AIDS activists have opposed home test kits, because they feared people would receive inadequate counseling.
City Vision, a gallimaufry of old communists, Greens, and Labour activists, now embraces him.
As Seeger explains it, the folk singer and activist had his financial aid rescinded after his sophomore year because he got too interested in left-wing politics and let his grades slip.
In our city most of the anti-war/peace movements are white b/c most of the activists in our city who are Black or Latino are already spending most of their available time on issues pertaining to communitywhich is hard when the city is trying to destroy, otherwise known as gentrify, your community. When do you not mind breaking the law?
The emerging connection between social conservatives and left activists is already apparent.
To suppose that the influence of a minority of party activists will not in the end prevail is to delude oneself.
Israel believes that the fly-in was organized after an aid flotilla that planned to bring hundreds of activists to break the Israeli naval blockade on the Gaza Strip was banned from leaving ports in Greece. Israel on Alert as Pro-Palestinian Activists Plan ‘Fly-In'
Activists are increasing in number day by day.
In contrast, actor/singer/activist Paul Robeson is turned directly to the viewer.
Van Jones, who was purged from the White House through a Fox News-orchestrated smear campaign, told a gathering of activists in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, that the day after Obama's election, "you gave away your power" by receding to the sidelines or turning their attention to individual issues while neglecting the over-arching narrative. Adele Stan: GOP Wave: Progressives Not Bold Enough?
The LCC is an activist network whose members are mostly Syria-based.
In 1992, Joyce was one of the Arkansas Travelers, a merry band of activists who drove around the country in rented vans to support Bill Clinton's presidential campaign. As midterm nears, Democratic activist sees fewer friendly faces in Arkansas
His billionaire wife is remembered either as very religious or beautiful, but certainly not as a radical political activist.
Enter the newish euphemism for activist art, ‘tactical media.’
This is a guest post by Queers United: The activist blog uniting the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersexual, asexual community & straight allies in the fight for equality! Archive 2009-05-01
You have chosen to act at the instance and behest of (activist) Ms Medha Patkar and others in haste and in a high-handed arbitrary manner, " the statement said.
Some of our activists are somewhat demotivated by having to defend the record of the coalition," admitted a Lib Dem official in Westminster. Liberal Democrats try not to blink at the threat of a thrashing
Coney, a tenants rights activist, worked with the city to create a tenant-owned nonprofit corporation.
Activists are warning our farmers a similar disaster could happen to them.
Several activists were even assaulted by delegates who punched and kicked them before the Secret Service arrested them.
I'm sure my good ol' perseverant activist self will be back any time now.
Researchers and community activists supplied conference participants with a wealth of ideas.
Sanders is among dozens of activists who recently began calling themselves the Back Country Coalition.
Eastern Europe provided fertile soil for political activists.
Party activists and trade unionists were going to inflict a string of defeats on the leadership on key policy areas.
He deserves better than to be criticised by gay activists with such a cheap shot.
ANC president Jacob Zuma did smoke "zol" with the late activist ANC Daily News Briefing
After submitting a legal challenge last year, a group of left-wing political parities and pro-democracy activists threatened protests if a date was not set. Palestinians to Hold Municipal Elections
Nor was he in step with party activists, who often fussed about procedures and the setting up of committees. Times, Sunday Times
Amy's experiences turned her into a radical activist as a teenager.
He then organized a successful effort to channel the energies of civil rights activists into the politically preferable voting rights arena.
But I'll wager that they and everyone else, from epicure to hunger activist, will soon be consulting these volumes as a quick route to erudition.
He's been a trade union/party activist for many years.
Rebab Haleb, 32, an activist lawyer representing 15 Zwara women who were raped by Gadhafi militia, says she has no problem with Shariah and wouldn't mind if her husband took a second wife. Among Libya's Liberals
With comedian Jeff Hiller MCing and set around Galapagos's large pond, the event will feature politically-themed cruise games such as shuffleboard and lame 'rubber duckie "races, as well as drink specials, comedians, musicians, DJs and hundreds of young activists. Feminist blogs
Those trained allegedly formed a death squad which directed its activity against pro-ANC activists.
The growth of anticommunist violence in Miami had intimidated many people from taking activist roles in liberal politics throughout south Florida.
Gay activists might offer the lowering of the age of consent or the war on Section 28.
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The killer, Yigal Amir, a student of Jewish law, was an activist of the organized religious right. He was neither delusional nor incoherent.
Our evenings will be spent participating in discussions with local naturalists and environmental activists.
It was the advent of a new day, however, when the activist decided to help administer the treatment for the adolescent and help the Admiral fight this adverse situation.
Earlier this month, broom-carrying activists in hazmat suits demonstrated outside Chevron stations in San Francisco and called on the company to "clean up" its operations. Chevron Ad Campaign Answers Critics Head-On
No doubt, had you been there, you would only have seen ten brave freedom activists being ‘attacked’ by 500 stationery and silent Christians, but I refuse to apologise for excercising my democratic freedom. Abortion and Control
He then organized a successful effort to channel the energies of civil rights activists into the politically preferable voting rights arena.

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