Sentence examples for activists from inspiring English sources

Whether the action's beneficiaries in the streets below appreciated the reference to the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling was not recorded, but in a press release, activists did claim that a woman who had been trying to collect money for a bus ride was able to pay her fare with the free money.

In a letter handed out by activists to managers at each Shell station, John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, wrote: "28 activists and two journalists remain in detention after the seizure of our ship Arctic Sunrise by armed Russian Federal Security Bureau agents.

In the early 2000s, pharmaceutical companies were high on activists' hit lists, prompted by Big Pharma's ill-advised attempt to sue the South African government for patent infringement on HIV drugs; an attempt to deal with the country's epidemic by allowing cheaper, generic copies to be sold.

10 February: Activists claim rockets are hitting Baba Amr at the rate of one every three minutes.

Sajid Javid, the culture secretary, was heckled at the pre-election Citizens UK assembly on Monday, where he took the prime minister's place at the podium in front of thousands of community activists.

But with cabinet ministers, Labour MPs and Lib Dem activists all warning against excess Lib-Lab intimacy, that may prove a forlorn hope.

A significant thread in the recent politics of Tower Hamlets is the legacy of the Battle of Cable Street, the legendary East End street confrontation involving the police, local Jewish and Irish workers and activists, and Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists that took place on 4 October, 1936.

Despite having only 100 activists they also said that targets in England remained a high priority.

Can so called "free market" activists pull the blinkers away for long enough to see that failing to act decisively on greenhouse gas emissions will eventually restrict people's freedoms, rather than enhance them?

But they've shown themselves to be articulate, successful activists.

In the 80s, the focus shifted, with activists "working with industry and government to produce safer products", says Bobel.