Sentence examples for engendered a movement from inspiring English sources
Some of the earliest had been made by bicycle enthusiasts; a bike craze in the eighteen-eighties had engendered a movement, led by the League of American Wheelmen, to get the government to put up signs and to improve the muddy, rutted byways that passed for roads.
A not-skinny woman putting on a bikini was headline news, and with that, Gregg engendered a movement of plus-sized women who set forth to crack an age-old beauty standard wide open (as well as coin the term "fatkini").
This was tried after the Vietnam War, which engendered a vast antiwar movement at home.
The unions and the left were repressed, but not so severely as to engender a guerrilla movement.
His peculiar advocacy engendered a powerful, decentralized grassroots movement and aroused political consciousness for a very unorthodox assortment of young people, many of whom first became aware of Ron Paul by watching YouTube clips of his debate performances.
The inability of the Sublime Porte to maintain order or to carry through its program of reform known as Tanzimat (1839 76), especially when contrasted with Greek and Serbian independence, engendered an explicitly revolutionary movement among the Bulgarians.
The distress has engendered a kind of peer support movement on the Internet, where one can find extensively referenced posts on weeding from all over the country.
The presence of the flag, which stayed up in the 1960's as a gesture of defiance to the civil rights movement, had engendered a bitter dispute over the origins of the war, exposing vast differences in the perception of history between blacks and many whites.
The 12-tone movement was supposed to have engendered a revolution.
But Wunderman's op-ed manifesto engendered a broad response, and the response has engendered something like a movement.
Reaction to apartheid engendered a sense of black culture and history that drew inspiration from West and North African, Caribbean, and African American intellectual movements.
