Sentence examples for rather than activists from inspiring English sources

Vidler described Wong's parents, Grace and Roger, as "a very quiet, middle-class, ordinary family", rather than activists.

Less predictably, he talks about signing up an army of "registered supporters" – sympathisers, rather than activists, the laity supporting the professional Labour clergy.

I choose the word "revolutionaries" rather than "activists" for a reason: in this book as in life, activism often comes as a sort of outfit, to be put on and taken off as it goes in and out of fashion.

The abstract, invisible nature of climate change is rendered real through everyday stories, while the fact that the storytellers are members of the public, rather than activists or campaigners, creates a positive social norm.

I thought it was because party conferences are increasingly dominated by lobbyists, rather than activists, but in the Times today (paywall) Daniel Finkelstein suggests that there's a wider problem, which relates to the way politics is changing.

To treat humanitarian or human-rights organizations with automatic deference, as if they were disinterested higher authorities rather than activists and lobbyists with political and institutional interests and biases, and with uneven histories of reliability or success, is to do ourselves, and them, a disservice.

The MCE promotes a Sunni Muslim tradition of obedience to the ruler rather than activist elements of the Salafis who propagate a return to 7th century life as it was at the time of the Prophet Mohammed and his immediate successors.

The idea of holding it there – and before 1,000 "ordinary" people, rather than party activists – came from the London Citizens/CitizensUK community organisers he had recruited.

Obama dropped the terminology of Occupy Wall Street on Tuesday night, perhaps because he was trying to rally the country at large rather than Democratic activists.

In March last year, Mr da Silva and his allies pushed through a change in the party's rules, so that the executive committee would be chosen by all members rather than by activists.

The profile of striking workers seems to run more along the lines of slightly bookish would-be engineers — perhaps without the grades or money to attend college — rather than political activists.