Sentence examples for circle of activists from inspiring English sources

The uprising was still young, but Anisi, an eloquent critic of the Saleh regime and a pillar of Sana's small circle of activists, had his priorities set.

Their meeting was held on Feb. 16, 2011, and within days the authorities began a crackdown against the circle of activists.

Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur, is modern, and the country's globe-trotting elite is cosmopolitan, but the question of whether the ban on sodomy should be repealed has never gained traction beyond a small circle of activists.

That call was placed several years ago when the phone was one of many 'being passed around a circle of activists connected with Finsbury Park mosque,' said one source.

That year, a circle of activists around the Sinclairs launched the Human Rights Party (HRP), a new political party that aimed to push local politics in Ann Arbor further to the left.

Thus our celebration on this anniversary day is a call -- to those who have already done so much and those who have yet to join the cause: to speed up our efforts and expand our sphere of influence and our circle of activists.

They established that he was Mark Kennedy, an undercover policeman who had been sent to spy on her circle of activist friends.

Most was scarcely known beyond narrow circles of activists.

(In a sign of how small the circle of Japanese activists is, one of the eight national lawmakers who joined the flotilla, Eriko Yamatani of the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, was also part of a recent episode that helped set off the latest battle between South Korea and Japan over their disputed islands).

Although it is nonbinding and has no force of law in the United States, it has increasingly become a point of passionate concern to a circle of Republican activists who argue that the resolution is part of a United Nations plot to deny Americans their property rights.

Abdel-Fattah and a small circle of fellow activists were once seen by many in Egypt as the best hope for an end to corruption and repression and the dawning of an era of free speech and respect for citizens by the state.