Sentence examples for activists challenge from inspiring English sources

Occupy activists challenge this upbeat narrative.

Ecologists and activists challenge the notion that this water runs waste.

Activists challenge the National Water Development Agency's claim that the Ken has surplus water.

Gay rights activists challenge that claim, citing support from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Medical Association, among other organizations.

For example, using the Internet to rapidly organize informal "strolls," rather than formal protests, is part of a broader trend of contemporary activism in which Chinese activists challenge, embarrass or shame the authorities through provocation rather than direct confrontation.

And increasingly we are seeing activists challenging big corporations about the environmental degradation they are causing.

When activists challenged the system during the Khatami years, they found themselves isolated, a diminishing crowd without political support or mass mobilization to defend them.

Already, on the internet and in other forums, one can see feminists and gay and governance activists challenging the conceptions that underlie it.

In 2011, in Blum v Holder, five animal rights activists challenged the AETA as an unconstitutional infringement of their free speech.

By the 1970s, we suggest, in the turmoil of the counterculture, activists challenging the authority of science attempted to reclaim experiential knowledge as a legitimate source of scientific knowledge, reopening the epistemological toolbox of science.

When tea party activists challenged Democratic lawmakers at town hall meetings in 2009 and 2010, Republicans never characterized rowdy activists as a "mob". It was the finest example of active citizenship, they assured us.