Sentence examples for marginal movements from inspiring English sources

By contrast, many of the people who came after him were the sort of nasty little demagogues whom one tends to find battling one another to the death for control over small, marginal movements, often on the left.

From a standpoint outside Christianity, the distinction between mainstream Protestantism and marginal movements like Pentecostalism and the Salvation Army appears less significant than it does from within; all shades of the Christian religion derive from the same sketchy Gospel accounts of a charismatic miracle worker and a cosmic narrative wildly different from what science shows.

And to achieve their narrow ideological goal, they are willing to use the same desperate measures that other marginal movements have adopted around the world: they have taken a hostage.

In his influential 1964 essay "The Paranoid Style in American Politics," historian Richard Hofstadter contended that it was social outsiders or "marginal" movements that most often embraced this kind of conspiratorial thinking.

"We have 180,000 supporters across the country — this is not a marginal movement," Mr. Pilcher said in a telephone interview.

Some Kenyan and western politicians have described the mass killings in the Westgate shopping mall as "an act of desperation" by a marginal movement that is "on the run".

Clift agrees, but notes that even some marginal movement toward Christie may be enough to be decisive.

This one captures a radical political argument in four words, rebranding a marginal cause as a mass movement.

Despite all this, radio did give a boost to some marginal political movements.

The show's mixture of marginal art movements and neglected objects ranges from 1960s Op Art paintings by Bridget Riley and Julian Stanczak to a reconstruction of Wilhelm Reich's notorious Orgone Energy Accumulator from 1940; sitting in it was supposed to unblock the flow of life energy.

Shaw remains deeply intrigued by outmoded artifacts and strange ideas, by the publications of marginal religious movements and zany conspiracy theorists.