Sentence examples for agitating on from inspiring English sources

Russell Broadbent, a Liberal moderate who was one of those agitating on asylum issues during the Howard years, noted recently that the Nauru Files – the 2000 incident reports from Nauru published by Guardian Australia – were "the sort of thing that brought John Howard to a place where he had to do something about it".

Everybody was racist, everybody thought like that then.' And indeed, some of the good people were antisemitic; I mean, Harold Nicholson was one of the good people agitating on the sidelines to make Churchill prime minister, and was terribly anti-appeasement, and he was a terrible antisemite and a terrible racist.

In contrast to his uncharacteristic silence, some of his friends have been agitating on his behalf.

With the new Democratic House in place, and with Fields agitating on behalf of more aggressive gun restrictions, Hickenlooper began to have second thoughts.

Hayes and the irrepressible English professor Vida Scudder were excoriated by the Boston press for agitating on behalf of striking Lawrence mill workers.

It's entirely reasonable that the first black President of the United States began his public career agitating on behalf of the man who became the first black President of South Africa.

Pearl was agitated on the sideline.

Several churchgoers said she had appeared agitated on Sunday morning.

Local politicians began to agitate on the residents' behalf, and receivership followed.

Pakistan's lawyers had agitated on behalf of the chief justice, Mr. Chaudhry, for two years.

The United States has refused to join the court, undercutting its ability to agitate on the Bashir case.