Sentence examples for citizen campaign from inspiring English sources

"The UK is one of the biggest suppliers of arms to Saudi Arabia and needs to heed this call, which has been overwhelmingly supported across the political spectrum and by a vast citizen campaign," he said.

Like Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus, he is inviting any citizen running in local, state or nationwide elections – or waging local-level citizen campaigns – to be Bernie Sanders.

"Davis's original cycling culture in the 1960s was the result of citizen campaigning that led to political leadership," said Bossard.

Then we come to the presidential primaries, where citizen campaigning is limited to a few states, with the rest of us just the targets of political fund-raising.

More important, why should grassroots citizen campaigning — trying to persuade your friends and neighbors of the virtues of your favorite candidate — be pointless in three-quarters or four-fifths of the country?

Together with environmentalists in Mexico and around the world, the Natural Resources Defense Council mounted one of the largest citizen campaigns ever to challenge and ultimately defeat the project that would have turned the last undisturbed breeding lagoon for the gray whale into a 116-square-mile industrial site.

As shown by the successful defense of USDA organics standards a decade ago, the so-far-successful mobilization to defend net neutrality, and the fight against the as-yet-not approved Keystone XL pipeline, citizen campaigns can positively shape government regulations.

This morning, Mr. Brecht is scouting the location for a public service announcement about his citizens' campaign.

London Citizens' campaign also succeeded in persuading Barclays bank to pay its staff at least £7.60 an hour.

The offices of the Greek Tourism Confederation have turned almost overnight into the nerve centre of a burgeoning citizens' campaign.

Case in point: An electrified citizens' campaign has mounted the most serious get-out-the-vote effort against Joe Arpaio, the notorious Maricopa County Sheriff, in his 20-year reign.