Sentence examples for led a community from inspiring English sources

In Harlem, he has led a community development group and helped rescue Harlem's Apollo Theater from financial difficulties; he now serves chairman of the foundation that runs the theater.

But Mr. Pitti, a lifelong Merrick resident who led a community campaign to convert the 50-acre landfill into an overlook park and preserve, remembers well the former dump that once included his own garbage.

"It was one of the most hostile meetings I've ever been to," Jeff Abbas, manager of KPVL, the local radio station, which has led a community effort to help laid-off plant employees, said in a telephone interview on Thursday.

There is an OBE for Christopher Preddie, a former drug dealer who turned his life around and led a community campaign against knife and gun crime.

Raaheela Ahmad led a community organization called, "Students against destructive decisions" for 3 years.

Nestora Salgado is a dual US-Mexican citizen and former child bride who led a community uprising to fight drug cartels in one of Mexico's most dangerous states.

While hundreds of community hospitals have been closed throughout the country, Kucinich led a community-based effort to reopened two Cleveland neighborhood hospitals.

Archbishop Welby leads a community that is a small fraction of the world's more than one billion Roman Catholics.

I watched the speech on TV, at the home of Debbie Cavanaugh, a white schoolteacher in her fifties who leads a community group called the Central Islip Coalition of Good Neighbors.

Like the parish priests who came generations before, imams are called on to lead a community on the margins of American civic life.

Mark Rosenberg, 27, who leads a community watch group called Shomrim, said people in the neighborhood have been nervous since Sept. 11, 2001.