Sentence examples for activists defending from inspiring English sources

Its place on the map also made it valuable to activists defending Moscow's avant garde heritage: it faced an iconic worker's club designed by pioneering Russian architect Konstantin Melnikov.

The protests mushroomed after police cracked down on activists defending an Istanbul park from developers.

Activists defending Istanbul's iconic Gezi Park clashed with police in June 2013.

Oman-Reagan says that his detractors started at least two online forums devoted to harassing him, while the head of content creation at Oxford Dictionaries, Katherine Connor Martin, told me that watching men's-rights activists defend the dictionary was, for her, "not a proud moment".

Several trans* activists defended Mister Cee's sexuality, and Hot 97 program director Ebro Darden brought Mister Cee back for an interview, where Ebro encouraged Mister Cee to continue working at Hot 97.

In terms of the number of defendants, the PayPal case is the largest brought in connection to a DDoS attack, which some activists defend as a legitimate form of protest protected by the First Amendment.

She ended up as a political activist, defending her position in the contest by attacking the motives of naysayers.

Mark Bergfeld, spokesman for the Education Activist Network, which has organised many of the fees demonstrations, said Porter had seen himself more as a policymaker than an activist defending his members on the streets.

Before that indictment, Mr. Ujaama, an activist, defended himself in a letter on a Web site.

Stefan Wray, an early online activist, defended such tactics at an "anti-Columbus Day" rally in New York.

The playwright and human rights activist defends Africa against its condescending critics, offering both sweeping reflections and cleareyed assessments.