Example sentences for: civil-rights

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

  • Civil-rights advocates called for scrutiny of the one-year suspension, but agree that it's OK as long as the abuse that provoked her was gender-neutral.

  • Combined with a new, heartfelt attack on civil-rights laws (Murray says bad, prejudicial discrimination is inseparable from good, economically sensible discrimination), this passage leaves one with the sense that in declaring himself a libertarian, Murray has not yet removed the final veil.

  • The most surprising new critics of integration are found in traditional civil-rights groups like the NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

  • At the end of his account of Molly Munger's fight against the CCRI, and her deflation when after all her efforts it succeeds, Lemann tells us that she has left civil-rights work and has started a new organization devoted to improving education for the poor.

  • It was the last and longest fast for the 61-year-old civil-rights activist.


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