Sentence examples for movement referring from inspiring English sources

A "Draft Kennedy" movement, referring to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who would unsuccessfully challenge Mr. Carter for the 1980 Democratic nomination, began to grow.

He has continued to anger many by teasing the protest movement, referring to their symbol, a white ribbon, as a condom.

The "99 Percent" slogan of Occupy Wall Street protests, for example, has been countered with a "53 Percent" movement, referring to the fact that 53 percent of Americans pay federal income taxes (although many more pay payroll taxes).

The so-called Repeal the 8th movement, referring to the clause that enshrines the ban, has brought together the generations as well as forging new relationships between young Irish and young British women in ways that gladden my heart.

The film stemmed from a separate project that Ms. McGee is working on for the Web and public television, which Ms. Steinem calls "the 'Eyes on the Prize' of the women's movement," referring to the public-television documentary on the civil rights struggle.

We said to ourselves, 'We will go back and apply this.' " Helvey, who served two tours in Vietnam, introduced the Otpor activists to the ideas of American theoretician Gene Sharpe, whom he describes as "the Clausewitz of the nonviolence movement," referring to the renowned Prussian military strategist.

An article on Dec. 7 about Taiwan's environmental movement referred incorrectly to the status of shark fin soup there.

Tellingly, both Mr. Rajoy's government and the independence movement refer to their positions as a defense of democracy.

An obituary on Saturday about Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare movement, referred imprecisely to the status of another movement, Opus Dei, within the Roman Catholic Church.

Mr. Rajput, who sacrificed himself for the movement, was not an ethnic Gorkha but a Bihari Gorkha, as the minorities who support the movement refer to themselves.

There's another layer of association in this music, since the titles of the individual movement refer to places in Brno, the city where he grew up.