Sentence examples for civil movements from inspiring English sources

"Taiwan had decades of civil movements," says Xiao Qiang of Human Rights in China.

Various civil movements — and political pressures for reform — also arose after the government's utterly inadequate response to the great Mexico City earthquake of 1985.

The growing strength of these civil movements means we can no longer say that Russian citizens are passive; they just don't vote in elections because they don't think their vote will change anything.

I still think it is civil movements that create change: from the abolition of slavery to the cancellation of developing world debt, it has been grassroot movements that have led the charge.

The implacable white South Africans who sustained fortress apartheid now realised that they could not hold out indefinitely: more than ever, the use of force, their traditional response to peaceful boycotts, rent strikes, demonstrations and the country's range of civil movements, made them look desperate, and robbed them of any claim to be respectable, still less democratic.

Perhaps more challenging is the emergence of a new, non-affiliated pressure group that has denounced not just these elections, but the "entire masquerade" of Algeria's politics.Launched only last month, Barakat, meaning "enough" in Algeria's Arabic dialect, is modelled on peaceful civil movements that helped topple such rulers as Egypt's Hosni Mubarak.

"The Green Movement is a civil movement which rejects aggression in every area," he wrote.

A new civil movement has evolved as a result of government policy.

"If it happens in three cities, it would be a real civil movement.

This is the civil movement of our time.

Erdogan runs a political party while Gulen operates a civil movement called Hizmet ("Service").