Sentence examples for countryside movement from inspiring English sources

A placard brandished by the local Confédération des Paysans called for the release of José Bové, the countryside movement leader.

The countryside movement Chasse, Pêche, Nature et Traditions (Hunting, Fishing, Nature and Traditions) said Abeille preferred "birds inflated with silicon to the fine geese filled with the corn of the Landes and the Périgord".

Liu, who was born in 1955 to provincial intellectual parents, spent his teen-age years in Inner Mongolia, where his father had been sent as part of Mao's Down to the Countryside movement, and he worked as an unskilled laborer during his early adulthood.

And it was in Shaanxi where Mr Xi said he experienced a political awakening when he was sent there in 1969 under the Down to the Countryside Movement - part of the Cultural Revolution where urban youth were made to labour with peasants.

The initiative included the promotion of Maoist quotes, "singing red songs"(changhong), revolutionary television programming and operas, and initiatives to encourage students to work in the countryside, akin to the way students were required to do during the Down to the Countryside Movement of the Cultural Revolution.

The Countryside Alliance's movement against Mr. Blair for trying to stop hunting with hounds is the largest in England's history.

Trying to explain this to my host in broken French didn't make it any easier!" WWOOF was founded in 1971 by a London-based secretary who wanted to give people like herself access to the countryside and organic movement.

Population movement from countryside into urban areas looking for food/water/relief.

In Britain, hedgerows have been a feature of the countryside since the enclosure movement and provide a habitat for numerous songbirds and small animals.

In an analogy he drew for one of his staff officers that summer, however, he pointed out that the passage of Saigon's troops through the countryside was like the movement of a ship through the sea: while the ARVN troops were in a given area, their presence pushed the guerrillas into hiding or flight, in the way a ship displaces water; the moment the troops departed, the guerrillas flowed back.

Indeed, as in most of the large African agglomerations, peri-urban suburbs are still connected to the countryside through intense population movement [30] [32].