Sentence examples for raft of causes from inspiring English sources

Babies and youngsters slept, crawled or cried while their parents listened to dozens of speakers endorse a raft of causes, from ending the death penalty to granting amnesty to illegal immigrants.

Under the umbrella title Mobilization for Global Justice, organizers are promising that thousands of protesters will come to Washington intent on a raft of causes with global economic implications, from famine to deforestation, political corruption to global warming.

Leaderless, multinational and known by the ubiquitous, sly Guy Fawkes mask, Anonymous is fueled by a raft of causes, from repression in Tunisia to animal rights in Tennessee to a defense of the whistle-blower site WikiLeaks.

Well aware of the raft of problems caused by the loss of so much of Moldova's woodlands, authorities and scientists began lobbying for increased afforestation plans, and large-scale reforestation projects have been carried out in the republic since the early 1990s.

A decades-old peacekeeping operation may be threatened thanks to a raft of violence caused by Islamic State-linked groups in the Sinai Peninsula.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the cold-induced microscale and nanoscale redistribution or colocalization of lipid raft markers causes the activation of raft-related[31] signaling pathways in T cells[7].

But the hotel is funnier and more engaging than the forest, and introducing a raft of undeveloped new characters causes a loss of focus.

The press take on the most recent raft of studies about microfinance caused heartburn among both microfinance promoters and academics, as Nicholas Kristof reported in his New York Times blog.

Contaminated drinking water, either piped down from a lower part of the glacier or trucked in from polluted local lakes, causes a raft of intestinal and other problems, but nothing, apparently, like the public-health catastrophe that warmer weather would wreak.

The results suggest that lipid raft disruption causes the targeting of uPAR to the lysosome, which may contribute significantly to the loss of the uPAR function in breast cancer cells.

Boxing Day's football schedule has been hit by the weather as heavy rain from Storm Eva in the north of England and in Scotland caused a raft of postponements.