Sentence examples for movements aimed at from inspiring English sources
There is still a vital distinction . . . between the constitutionally protected expression of dissent . . . and mass movements aimed at breaking the President".
One consequence of this and other developments was the growth of movements aimed at "national efficiency" as a means of establishing a more effective state machine.
I've spent much of the past two decades working in movements aimed at creating new forms of bottom-up democracy, from the Global Justice Movement to Occupy Wall Street.
Another project awarded this year to the University of Washington "seeks to uncover the conditions under which political movements aimed at large-scale political and economic change originate," along with their "characteristics and consequences".
The last 25 years have seen a succession of projects and movements aimed at increasing the quality of American primary and secondary schools: standards-based reform, the 1989 "education summit" that set six "national goals" for education, the push for school choice and, most recently, the No Child Left Behind legislation.
It is a situation that is unlikely to change overnight – but there are movements aimed at bridging this gap.
Today's social movements aim at the inclusion of gifted souls in the dominant structure rather than at the revolutionary transformation of social relations.
Today's movements aim at a similar transformation: to define routine police killings and mass incarceration -- practices now taken for granted as normal features of American life -- as neither normal nor morally acceptable.
Leake said that the Kraft protest was just part of a wider movement aimed at educating ordinary consumers about the products that they bought.
A political movement aimed at eliminating the American presence sprung up in Okinawa almost immediately after it reverted to Japanese control.
"Luddites were not anti-technology: they were skilled craftsmen, involved in a labour movement aimed at keeping their machines and their jobs," he says.
