Example sentences for: activist

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

  • Bill Clinton wants to be an activist chief executive, but a paradox of his own making stands in the way.

  • The Wall Street Journal reports that an activist's TV commercial urging viewers to cut back on Christmas materialism by participating in "Buy Nothing Day" has been rejected by the major broadcast networks (it has been accepted by CNN).

  • Writings by the imprisoned Chinese political activist are granted a place "among the classics of the 20 th century literature of dissent, alongside the writings of figures like Vaclav Havel, Vladmir Bukovsky and Adam Michnik" (Richard Bernstein, the New York Times ). The collection mainly consists of letters, written from prison to Chinese leaders, pleading the case for democracy.

  • Intellectual celebrity Edward Said has assumed the presidency of academia's largest and most controversial professional organization, the Modern Language Association . The Columbia University literary scholar, music critic, and Palestinian activist is the best-known figure to represent the profession in years.

  • She was chagrined at The Nation 's recent publication of a column by conservative education activist Ron Unz arguing that liberal education reform has been an unmitigated failure.


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