Sentence examples for formidable activist from inspiring English sources

The African women's movement has lost a formidable activist.

If Sanofi continues to pursue Genzyme, it will need to deal with two formidable activist investors who have stakes in the biotech company: Carl C. Icahn and Ralph Whitworth, both of whom have representatives on the Genzyme board.

This is a battle that the climate-change protesters are losing, because opponents in the shires have mobilised a formidable activist army of their own, and they're objecting on environmental grounds: that the windmills are a massive eyesore.

It is worth noting here that we speak of a highly-regarded, Oscar-nominated actress, director of documentaries, member of a presidential commission on HIV/AIDS, and a formidable activist on Puerto Rican community issues.

The formidable political activist in Montgomery, Alabama, who in 1955 refused to give up her seat in the "coloured" section of a bus to a white passenger after the white section was filled.

But while Paris is now a proud, formidable equality activist and one of the most prominent trans personalities in the UK, she's had to overcome the same immense internal struggle with the stigma, fears, and pressures of passing that every trans person faces.

Orlando's openly lesbian city commissioner, Patty Sheehan, a formidable long-time activist for LGBT equality, has been in the national spotlight for the past two weeks fighting to make sure the media didn't take the focus off of the victims of the mass-shooting at the Pulse nightclub in her city: largely LGBT Latinx in a popular queer nightspot.

Peter Heathfield had been a formidable speaker, a disciplined activist, yet someone who always had time for a laugh, a joke and a pint.

It was the long list of the Terminator's alleged crimes against women, though, that Mama Justine —as the smiley but formidable women's rights activist is known in war-torn North Kivu — knew by heart.

The confluence of these factors poses a formidable challenge to gender activists seeking to intervene.

But the activists remain a formidable bunch.