Issue-oriented person

Usage examples of activist.

Even though the embryos from which these cells are derived are developed outside the womb and routinely discarded, antiabortion activists adamantly oppose using them for research no matter how many people stand to benefit.

Most antiabortion activists, for example, have openly discouraged legislative allies from even pursuing those compromise measures that would have significantly reduced the incidence of the procedure popularly known as partial-birth abortion, because the image the procedure evokes in the mind of the public has helped them win converts to their position.

Sergei had seen antiabortion activists behave the same way, lurking like a bird-dog until a target appeared, and then springing forward.

There he set about acquiring all he would need to transform Angela Glenmore into an antinuclear activist.

They were the first activists I had ever met from the antinuclear movement of the fifties and the civil rights and antiwar movements of the sixties.

I watched the professional antipoverty activists work, the more plausible that seemed.

Williams provided any information about Tribulation Force activist Al Basrah, and neither is there evidence to support that he committed suicide.

Then I watched it deal with the activists, from the Berrigans on through Sister Valentine and the gay rights activists.

The Constitution is, after all, the law of the land, public officials are sworn to uphold it, and activists and the courts episodically hold their feet to the fire.

Ever since Messilinda deserted them, the Gaters had been dwindling in numbers, fading away to become another one of the seemingly endless small religious sects that dotted the American landscape, but the remaining believers were action-oriented, much like the old Right To Life activists before they were finally subdued.

Miller tracts to the crowds outside the Ohio prison as the clock ticked down to Injection, little Bruce in tow, blank-faced and watching, the crowd of media and anti-Capital activists and Defarge-like picnickers milling and roiling, many T-shirts for sale, and the red-faced men in sportcoats and fezzes, oh their rage-twisted faces the same red as their fezzes as the men careened this way and that in their little cars, formations of motorized Shriners buzzing the gates of the O.

About paying off the grassroots activists that they thought had won them the election?

But a white backlash erupted in 1875, and Democratic-party activists linked up with remnants of the Ku Klux Klan to unleash a wave of riots and terror against blacks and their Republican allies.

I continued doing political events for Al Gore and the Democrats, including two with gay activists who were strongly supportive of both Al and me because of the substantial number of openly gay and lesbian citizens serving in the administration, and because of our strong support of the Employment Nondiscrimination Act and the hate crimes bill, which made crimes committed against people because of their race, disability, or sexual orientation a federal offense.

Unlike many nonstudent activists, he has no degree, and in the society that appalls him even a sellout needs credentials.