Sentence examples for movement local from inspiring English sources

In this sense, there is a clear link between the current discussions of sustainable food production in localized contexts, the "locavore" movement, local economic revitalization movements such as the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), and the changes we are proposing here.

Prior to this movement, local knowledge of Brazil was limited.

— Jeff Gordinier The Atlantic: Sometimes in the growing craft distilling movement "local" and "craft" are just words on a bottle.

The American food movement — local, seasonal, organic, chef-proud — has an undisputed mother: Alice Waters, the founder of the pioneering restaurant Chez Panisse, in Berkeley, California.

Mr. DeLeon ticked off a list that included the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike (a local union protest that sparked national reforms); the Beats of the 1950s ("the foundation for the hippie countercultural movement"); local wars over the Manhattanization of San Francisco, starting in the late '70s; the antinuclear and antigentrification actions of the '80s.

One new adherent to the movement, local café-owner Salah Badrouni, joined after Salafists found and brought back property that had been stolen from his premises.

Though sections of the protest have come under fire for being "professional" protesters – there are a sprinkling of tents bearing slogans from the Occupy movement – locals are very much in evidence.

One of the nation's most popular conservation movements, local land trusts claim a collective, dues paying membership of one million people.

We comment briefly on four such movements: the local investment movement in France (CIGALES), slow money, socially responsible investment and impact investment, and crowdfunding.

C­an the Sanders Movement Go Local?

Opinion|C­an the Sanders Movement Go Local?