Example sentences for: activism

How can you use “activism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "Five-minute activism," Boyd calls this.

  • Critics applaud Richard Gere's China-bashing activism but sneer at his China-bashing movie.

  • They deem its tone appropriately "admiring but not worshipful" (Richard Bernstein, the New York Times ). And they praise its focus on Robinson's stubbornly independent political activism.

  • However, even leaving aside what are, in all three of those examples, to me very valid questions of interpretation (I think--I haven't seen Dogma ), given that the resources of political activism on the behalf of special interests are necessarily limited, I would prefer to put my dollar and my anxiety down on the side of protecting actual, real live human beings suffering actual, real live oppression, or the threat thereof.

  • Decrying a judge's interference with the affirmative-action initiative is more in keeping with general conservative complaints about "judicial activism"--but not in keeping with much previous conservative huffery on affirmative action itself.


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