Sentence examples for movement for something from inspiring English sources
Rather than an aimless war against obesity, efforts should instead be used towards a movement "for" something.
No one knows how one of the most critical chapters in the history of the modern Arab world will end, as the region pivots from a movement against dictatorship toward a movement for something that is proving far more ambiguous.
The open access movement pushes for something altogether more radical: free papers available on online archives.
"There got to be a real movement for doing something about this and now we've put it to bed.
Oddly, McCain is attempting to portray himself as a doctrinaire conservative just when the intellectual class of the movement seems eager for something new.
They have lit a fire on the prairie in the heart of America as a symbol of their resistance, a movement that stands for something that is undoubtedly right: water that sustains life, and land that gave birth to people.
Whereas every effective movement must stand for something, it must also stand against something.
The ice buckets were here to incite a movement, to fight for something.
Parents in this year's opt-out movement are standing up for something larger than their own child's test-day happiness: the conviction that all children have better things to do with their days than fill in bubbles on a multiple-choice sheet, and that all children have better things to do with their heads than bang them against a table in despair.
Unlike other radical movements, feminism is calling for something many women and men find difficult: a profound change in the power relations between sexes - not only in the public sphere, but also, much more trickily, in the private sphere.
In this more insidious form of suffering there is either an internal movement of grasping and reaching for something outside ourselves, or a pushing away -- in resistance or aversion to something unpleasant or uncomfortable that we wish would disappear.
