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:

  • White critics of integration include the neo-conservatives , former liberals who supported the civil-rights mainstream until the early '70s.

  • Clinton's threat to make a recess appointment of Bill Lann Lee as the head of the Justice Department's civil-rights division and the indictment of Henry Cisneros dueled for the Issue 3 slot.

  • Democrats always conjured up some kind of pretext: Reynolds hadn't enforced the law; Lucas had no background in civil-rights enforcement and hadn't declared some stuff at customs.

  • Cut off from the political mainstream, some civil-rights leaders and grassroots supporters have embraced separatist politicians and positions.

  • In 1978, inspired by the civil-rights movement and his reading of Gandhi, Lee dreams up and then organizes the first sit-ins at an abortion clinic, and so helps to steer the anti-abortion movement from its polite letter-writing phase to its angry street-theater phase.


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