Sentence examples for movements active from inspiring English sources

Since halfway through the 1960s the social movements active at an urban level have asserted, using the protest as a political resource (Lipsky 1965), the legitimacy of alternative forms of democracy to the representative one, developing a new conception of "bottom-up" democracy (Tilly 1978; Tarrow 1994; Gould et al. 1996).

In the new project's online description, Luzinterruptus frames the bill as a major encroachment on Spanish civil rights that targets civil movements active both online and in the streets: "It directly affects us all who work in the street as we do our interventions in public spaces," they say on their site, "without permits, expressing political views, and spreading them over the Internet".

Guerrilla movements active throughout the mid-20th Century in Mexico are a mostly forgotten element of the nation's past, written out of official history books despite widespread rural and urban warfare with government forces, guerrilla kidnappings of bankers and politicians, and documented state massacres and disappearances.

Starting in April 2008, given the proximity of Comoros and Mayotte and considering the risk for introducing RVFV by illegal animal movements, active laboratory-based surveillance for Rift Valley fever was implemented among susceptible ruminants in Mayotte.

On clinical examination performed by one of the authors (AC), they were confirmed as having no restriction of shoulder movements (active or passive), no pain in the shoulder girdle or in the cervical area and negative provocative tests for subacromial impingement or labral pathology.

Sufficient warm-up and cooldown (about 5 10 minutes) in the form of stretching of major muscle groups, flexibility movements, active movements of limbs, breathing exercises, and walking at low intensity (50% of maximum heart rate) were performed before and after CWT.

As Stephen Biddle noted in a recent essay in The American Interest, the Taliban is a transnational Pashtun movement active in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Born on March 10 , 1920 in Michoacán State, Father Maciel founded the Legionaries in 1941 as a conservative movement active both in training priests and in organizing lay people, and he remained its charismatic leader.

Jenson's (2002, 2006) analysis of the Quebec case highlights the importance of a strong and influential women's movement active in civil society, the governing party and the bureaucracy.

It might include political parties who share some of the militants' aims but not their methods -- like the Hizb ut Tahrir movement active in Western Europe and Australia.

Islamic fundamentalists have attacked a Bosnian Muslim preacher who used his pulpit to rally against extremism three times in recent weeks, fueling concerns that a Gulf-financed Wahhabi movement active in the troubled country could be gaining ground.