Sentence examples for activist years from inspiring English sources

During his activist years Mr Abraham had been placed under house arrest and subject to sinister nightly telephone calls.

By the late eighties, the great activist years of the Warren Court had passed, and there appeared to be little prospect of a revival.

Despite her advanced age, Emma hurled herself into the Spanish cause with an enthusiasm reminiscent of her early activist years in America.

When we were in our activist years, when the government was just allowing people to die from Aids, our understanding of the threat that marginal lives imposed on dominant lives was a tool for exposing the hypocrisy of the status quo, let alone [the government's] heartlessness and neglect.

"He's been a community activist for years," she said.

Mullin had been a journalist, campaigner and political activist for years before becoming an MP.

He did not pretend to be an activist for years at a stretch with an elaborate false identity.

Baron Gong, founder of Origo, has been a privacy activist for years.

Kaur's work as an activist began years ago.

Nixon, a lifelong New Yorker, has been a progressive activist for years.

Two years ago Zuma was acquitted of raping the daughter of his friend, a prominent HIV positive activist, 30 years his junior.