Sentence examples for was active in support from inspiring English sources

In the 1930's she was active in support of democratic Spain against fascism, and later advocated civil rights and peace issues.

As a student, he was active in support of Mohammad Mossadegh, who as prime minister from 1951 nationalised the oil industry and was consequently ousted by the US and Britain in 1953 in their successful manoeuvre to restore the Shah.

Known in colonial days as Villahermosa, the town was active in support of independence from Spain in 1821; five years later it suffered from a plot to restore Spanish control over Costa Rica.

In 1977, remembering the lessons he learnt in the School of the Americas, Massera travelled to Nicaragua, where Argentina was active in support of the Central America military tyrants regarded as allies of the West.

In more recent years she was active in supporting and working with emerging playwrights.

Beyond his own creations, Mr. Robinson was active in supporting artists' rights.

As a member of PEN, the international writers group, Mr. Carlisle was active in supporting writers who faced censorship and other challenges.

Jerry was active in supporting the education of the less fortunate through his friendship with the leaders of the West Side School, New York City and with Fern Kahn, Dean of Continuing Education, Bank Street College of Education.

Mr. Jiang's disappearance may be related to those arrests, because several of the rights defenders arrested last year still await trial, and he was active in supporting their families, his lawyer, Chen Jinxue, said by telephone.

Meanwhile, Craig was active in supporting roles such as one of the teenage "beach babes" in Gidget (1959), the film that put surfing and California beach life on the pop culture map, and, in the same year, in the biopic The Gene Krupa Story, as the party girl who tries to seduce the eponymous drug-addicted jazz drummer (Sal Mineo).

Fanny Bixby Spencer also was active in supporting the library.