Sentence examples for public activist from inspiring English sources

This self-appointed mythmaker to the Irish war of independence was inspired by Blake's notion of the poet as prophet and public activist.

But Ziauddin fairly argued that he was already a public activist in Swat, prominent in the local press, and that if the Taliban wanted to kill him or his family, they would do so anyway.

Earlier this summer, Larry Robbins's Glenview Capital Management fought and won its first public activist campaign, persuading shareholders of the hospital chain Health Management Associates to replace the entire sitting board with eight independent nominees.

"During the course of the investigation we have positively established that the killing of Nemtsov was not in any way connected with his work as a state official, politician or public activist," one of the investigators told the court, Interfax reported.

François-Marie d'Arouet (1694 1778), better known by his pen name Voltaire, was a French writer and public activist who played a singular role in defining the eighteenth-century movement called the Enlightenment.

"The Geneva agreements attest to the failure of rules and global security guarantees," pop singer and public activist Ruslana Lozhychko writes in her blog on the Ukrayinska Pravda news website.

"It goes without saying that the ambiance of utter impunity for killing journalists and public activists in the North Caucasus played a tremendous role here," Ms. Lokshina said, speaking of Mr. Kamalov's killing.

I wanted to take part in today's congress of the councillors of all levels, public activists, but it turned out that I could not go and waste time because I had to be in touch all the time.

In March 2014 Tymoshenko opened the door of her house to public activists and guided them around.

That happened because a huge groundswell of public activists finally made it impossible not to change".

Some of them and some of us who were subsequently censored by faculty and administrators went on to become city managers, mayors, public activists, advocates and educational administrators ourselves.