Sentence examples for activist seeking from inspiring English sources

But some became more activist, seeking to influence political decisions with petitions, to exercise surveillance over constituted authorities, and to denounce those they deemed remiss.

A wildlife activist seeking to block any such order has taken the matter all the way to India's Supreme Court, which may hear the case soon.

But he is also known as a strong union man who has sometimes run afoul of league management and who testified in support of Dean Warren, an officials union activist seeking reinstatement as a referee after being fired by the league in 2008.

"I think this is ironic that you have a journalist, or an activist, seeking political asylum from a government that has – after Cuba – the poorest record of free speech in the region, and the practice of persecuting local journalists when the government is upset by their opinions or their research," said José Miguel Vivanco, director of Human Rights Watch's Americas division.

"I think this is ironic that you have a journalist, or an activist, seeking political asylum from a government that has – after Cuba – the poorest record of free speech in the region, and the practice of persecuting local journalists when the government is upset by their opinions or their research," José Miguel Vivanco, director of Human Rights Watch's Americas division, told the Guardian.

"Judge Hoffman was not impartial, but an activist seeking combat.

And one activist seeks to shame them, shouting that they are all the same age and share similar concerns.

He arrived in England as an 11-year-old after his father, a political activist, sought political asylum from the war in Zaire.

Last year, Espinal, an immigration activist, sought sanctuary here, defying deportation orders that would have taken her away from her spouse and three children back to her native Mexico.

But activists seeking to shed light on the past were still threatened and killed.

Activists seeking to protect the legal rights of ordinary citizens rose to prominence in the early 2000s.