Sentence examples for activist down from inspiring English sources

Other investors in the audience, likely more concerned about pay caps than ice caps, shouted the activist down before he could finish his question.

Ernie Brooks is a very likable fellow who was raised in New York and Connecticut by intellectual, liberal parents, which explains why he became a civil rights activist down South during the violent "Freedom Summer" of the early 1960s.

The most recent survey of Tory activists by the ConservativeHome website showed Mr Osborne still the narrow favourite among 23 per cent of Tory activists – down nine on the previous month before the tax credit debacle began.

Cuba now holds several dozen political prisoners in its jails, according to Cuban activists, down from several hundred a few years ago.

The largest protest camp, Oceti Oyate (the "people's camp") is on land managed by the Army Corps, which has ordered the remaining 300 or so activists (down from a December peak of more than 10,000) to leave by February 22.

The largest protest camp, Oceti Oyate ("the people's camp") is on land managed by the Army Corps, which has ordered the remaining 300 or so activists (down from a December peak of over 10,000) to leave by February 22.

Maçoğlu, a forty-nine-year-old former health-care worker and longtime leftist activist, played down his sudden popularity.

Kari Wagner-Peck is a advocate and activist for Down syndrome who authors the blog a typical son.

Smith started Ten Freedom Summers in 1977, when he wrote the piece "Medgar Evers" as an evocation of the eponymous civil rights activist gunned down in Mississippi in 1963.

An ill-timed piece of publicity could bring enraged Islamist activists banging down the door.

In 1992, Hindu activists tore down the mosque, unleashing sectarian violence in which about 2,000 people were killed, mostly Muslims.