Sentence examples for martyrs cause from inspiring English sources

Part revolution and part ritual, "Red April" commemorates the killing 11 years ago of 19 landless protestors by police in the Amazonian state of Pará and promotes the martyrs' cause, the redistribution of land.But nowadays much of the activism seems to have little to do with land reform.

I had to take the dead man's program and turn it into a martyr's cause".

Publicly, Johnson said of Kennedy, "I had to take the dead man's program and turn it into a martyr's cause".

Mrs. Whitney said she was aware that her criticisms of the Haacke work might "turn him into a martyr," and "cause people to line up for six blocks to see this trash".

Administration officials have said they did not want a long, public American trial of Mr. bin Laden that could turn him into a martyr or cause further terrorism in his name.

Romanticizing the loss of young peoples' lives as martyrs for any cause, or even condemning them as murderous, may be glossing over the real causes of death.

Truly, we are martyrs to the cause.

In the end, the government did not want to create martyrs to the cause.

The three subsequently became martyrs to the cause of Philippine independence.

The execution of the Bandieras made them martyrs for the cause of Italian independence.

They see themselves as martyrs to a cause, soldiers in a war.