"It's always been a very activist church in terms of leading the way and giving direction to the community in the area of politics and social responsibility". Recently the church has displayed that leadership in ways as varied as a funeral for a slain Muslim and a celebration for an African leader.
Benchmarks: Activists speak in terms of cross-industry benchmarks.
Cost allocations: Activists speak in terms of full cost allocations or activity-based costing.
Capital: Activists speak in terms of ROIC, asserting that management is responsible to ensure all investments exceed the company's cost of capital.
At the start of February, Vano Merabishvili, the UNM chairman (and former interior minister), told activists in ominous terms of the need to "weaken" the government and prevent it from "weakening Georgia".
Something similar could be said of the occupation itself – which is something of an experiment in self-governance, albeit under extremely challenging conditions, and supported by a group of committed activists who talk in terms of solidarity, not charity.
First and foremost, the self-identification of activists and protestors in terms of citizenship in lieu of sectarianism is in stark contrast to the Lebanese political system founded upon the notion of the co-existence of various religious traditions - whereby citizens identify themselves primarily as members of a certain religion.
Sometimes this principle is more specifically formulated in activist terms; feminist research should be "movement-generated" in the sense that it should not only provide an understanding of sexist and hetero-normative institutions, but should also generate strategies for changing these institutions (Ehrlich 1975, 10, 13).
Whatever the reason, what was happening to Rebecca Gomperts now was, in activist terms, an outright nightmare.
What are the limits and possibilities of action when it is conceived of in activist terms?
