Sentence examples for activist making from inspiring English sources

After graduating from Yale Law School in 1997, he moved to Newark, where he lived in a housing project and became a community activist, making a successful bid for a City Council seat a year later.

Russian investigators on Friday filed charges against a leftist activist, making him the most prominent opposition figure to face prison under an increasingly severe Kremlin crackdown on the protest movement against the government of Vladimir V. Putin.

One of them is Fernando Palma Rodríguez, a sixty-year-old indigenous Mexican artist, engineer, and activist, making his impressive museum début in the United States, at MOMA PS1, with a compact two-decade survey of robotic sculptures, titled "In Ixtli in Yollotl, We the People".

We are missing them and longing for the times we cursed before.' Surely Kieslowski, who spent so many years as an underground cultural activist making politically unacceptable documentaries about what life was really like for Poland's Mr and Mrs Normal, is not wishing himself back into the not-so-old days.

Evangeline Griego is a veteran independent filmmaker, director, and media activist making her feature length documentary directorial debut with God Willing.

I would then go on to spend the next eight years, while an undergraduate and Ph.D. student at Columbia, as a left-Zionist campus activist, making my first trip to Israel in 1970 -- and aliyah in 1992.

The feminist writer and activist made the comments on Bill Maher's show on Friday.

On top of this, being an active and respected local politician and social activist makes Salma unique.

Hugh Grant: 21 November The actor and anti-hacking activist made more headlines in November when he accused The Mail on Sunday of hacking his phone back in 2007.

While others in town said they were hardly aware of the generators, Patty Martin, a former Quincy mayor and environmental activist, made them an issue.

Italy is effectively without a functioning government after the Five Star Movement, led by Beppe Grillo, a comedian turned activist, made stunning gains in both houses of Parliament in the elections.