Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] ['s] movement [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , sadly , to be the first and last major impact of the parents ' movement during the initial phase of responses . |
| 2 | The party 's general secretary , Achille Occhetto , acknowledged the failure of communist policies in 1989 , and said that the new name represented " the two great ideas that define the fundamental alliance of the forces of renovation in the world " , while its new emblem , an oak tree with the hammer and sickle reduced to a small detail beneath it , combined a representation of the history of the workers ' movement with " our duty to live in a relationship with nature " . |
| 3 | I wonder if I could have belonged to revolutionary movements , even if they were as just as — I find the panthers ' movement and the Palestinians ' movement to be very just — but this belonging , this sympathizing with them is at the same time dictated by the erotic charge which the Arab world in its totality or the black American world represents to me , to my sexuality . |
| 4 | He joined the Scholars ' Movement in 1907 , was arrested , and some say imprisoned on the notorious island of Pulo Condor , where political prisoners were exiled . |
| 5 | The Men 's Movement to which he has turned speaks much of the ‘ wound ’ which fathers inflict on their sons . |
| 6 | The pensioners ' movement in which the G M B retired members play a part , is now widespread throughout the country . |
| 7 | On the other hand the revival of the women 's movement since the 1960s bears witness to the failure of women 's suffrage in itself to achieve substantive equality between the sexes , or even to abolish some of the more blatant forms of discrimination against women enshrined in much traditional law and practice . |
| 8 | The fourth response is more to do with the response of the women 's movement to adult education than the other way round and about welcoming adult education as just one more arena in the battle for women 's liberation . |
| 9 | Consequently , this unselfish and untiring determination has raised the women 's movement to a new qualitative stage … |
| 10 | The women 's movement at the turn of the century raised and won a wide range of radical demands for women . |
| 11 | Women 's bodies have been a focus of attention through the women 's movement at the different points in its history . |
| 12 | The main concerns of the women 's movement at that time — job opportunities , pay , childcare , education and reproductive rights — were familiar topics of discussion and there was a sense in which ideas and attitudes were settling and.shifting into more enlightened grooves . |
| 13 | In circumstances in which the opinion leaders and policy-makers in adult education have responded to the women 's movement at all , it has been to co-opt feminism into their platitudes , whilst at the same time seeking to deflect and defeat the radical intention of women 's liberation as it might be applied in adult education and society generally . |
| 14 | My position on what 's happening in the women 's movement at the moment is that it 's really in dire need of reconstruction , and that there would be no possibility of having a sort of joint togetherness as it were with Black women and white women because of some of the things that have been mentioned already — the racism that exists , the fact that feminism as a guiding ideological force remains a sort of tool of imperialism . |
| 15 | The kind of arguments that have challenged the women 's movement over 20 years had to be confronted in a practical manner : were the existing hierarchies justifiable ? |
| 16 | For Sociology , Helen Roberts reported considerable changes both within the organisation of the discipline and within the structure of the profession , seeing these changes largely as the direct or indirect result of an increased level of awareness brought about through the women 's movement over the previous decade ( Roberts , 1981b ) . |
| 17 | An exciting development in the women 's movement over the last few years has been an attempt by feminists to organise together around housing issues and to develop a feminist analysis of how the organisation of housing in Britain specifically affects women . |
| 18 | Feminist differences which erupted around the 1912 amendment act were symptomatic of growing divisions within the women 's movement over sexuality . |
| 19 | Women 's vision of their future in a new society is closely related to their own experiences and education and whether they have been in touch with the women 's movement outside of El Salvador , Some suggest that a new society will bring an end to the repression , the constant fear , the torture , the deaths and disappearances , It will mean they can return home , either leaving the refugee camps in San Salvador or ending their enforced exile abroad , to start to rebuild their homes in the knowledge that the army will not descend on them again . |
| 20 | Since the resurgence of the women 's movement in the early 1970s and its subsequent development into feminism ( less an activist social movement than a political body of thought and cultural practices ) , film , as Annette Kuhn and others have pointed out , has been high on the agenda of women working for social change . |
| 21 | Bair provides informative accounts of de Beauvoir 's war-time activities , of the existentialist ‘ circle ’ and the shifts that occurred within it , as well as a fill discussion of de Beauvoir 's involvement with the women 's movement in her later life . |
| 22 | The Sex Disqualification ( Removal ) Act of 1919 paved the way for changes in women 's employment rights , but the weakness of the Women 's Movement in that period meant that the Act remained a dead letter . |
| 23 | The Women 's Movement in Northern Ireland developed out of the twin oppression of class and imperialism . |
| 24 | The demands of the women 's movement in Britain seem overwhelmingly concerned with women who want to avoid having or caring for children , either full-time or at all ( e.g. abortion and contraception , day-care centres , rights in paid employment ) . |
| 25 | One aspect of the growth of the women 's movement in this period was increasing female agitation concerning the conditions of poorer women . |
| 26 | From the re-emergence of the women 's movement in the late 1960s , the development of women 's thinking and activity about these matters has found a corresponding development in the work of women artists , and particularly in the ways in which women represent women 's bodies , whether their own or those of others . |
| 27 | We may usefully draw an analogy here with the women 's movement in which it soon became apparent that if the real extent and nature of sexual oppression were to be understood , and services appropriate to real needs struggled for , feminist psychologies which recognised the individual consequences of collective oppression , and traced their causes beyond the individual to the mechanisms of that oppression , would have to be developed . |
| 28 | The women 's movement in the USA has played a major role in exposing the similar processes which are responsible for the creation of sexism and ageism ( and , for that matter , racism ) . |
| 29 | by no means all purists identified with feminism , but the rapid growth of the women 's movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century can not be understood without reference to the purity crusades , which drew thousands of women into the political arena for the first time . |
| 30 | The women 's movement in America , using its principles of non-violent confrontation , is developing some of the most hopeful ways of working with prisoners accused of rape and violence against women and children . |