Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] ['s] movement " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is here that the importance of social movements becomes apparent , for such movements — whether they are large-scale and enduring , like the trade union movement , or more specific , concerned with particular issues in some historical period , like the unemployed workers ' movements of the 1930s — do not only establish , in some cases , the preconditions for the emergence or transformation of organized political formations , but also constitute an independent form of political commitment and action which is an essential , often highly effective , element in political struggles . |
| 2 | A second stage emerges when the achievement of representative government , universal and equal suffrage , and free elections seems to diminish the importance of political action outside the formal institutional sphere , although in periods of crisis social movements , such as the unemployed workers ' movements or the fascist movements in some European countries , may develop . |
| 3 | The demands of the unemployed workers ' movement of the 1930s had an unexpected radicalism , not because people then were more " political " , but because the unemployed were able to make their own measure of an income . |
| 4 | In my experience I was acutely aware that Irish lesbians had been active within the English women 's movement for many years . |
| 5 | For Caroline Spry , what has happened to the women 's film and video sector must be seen in the context of the dissipation of the broader women 's movement . |
| 6 | The Spanish police also maintained that they had kept the suspected terrorists ' movements under close surveillance and maintained a constant flow of information on them to British officials in Gibraltar . |
| 7 | Family Allowance , or Child Benefit as a modified version of it is now known , has not always had the unequivocal support of the entire women 's movement . |
| 8 | Purity became hegemonic in the early women 's movement , though it did not go entirely unchallenged . |
| 9 | THE contemporary women 's movement has given us a language with which to describe and understand patriarchal oppression . |
| 10 | Fran Bennett 's article on ‘ The State , Welfare and Women 's Dependence ’ ( Bennett , 1983 ) gives an excellent account of the different strands within the contemporary women 's movement and their views about the appropriate source of an income for women . |
| 11 | The nature of sociological discussion on gender has been transformed by the impact of the contemporary women 's movement ; no longer are issues concerning gender subsumed under ‘ the family ’ with its connotation of a happy haven of consensus . |
| 12 | The contemporary women 's movement has constructed a list of seven demands : |
| 13 | It became a part of the official women 's movement and was able to push for the rights of the professional woman artist . |
| 14 | However , Ahmed Dogan , leader of the ethnic Turks ' Movement for Rights and Freedoms ( MRF — whose support gave the UDF a working majority in parliament ) said that Zhelev 's statement was " objective " . |
| 15 | Dimitrov formed his government in November 1991 [ see p. 38583 ] , reliant on the support of the ethnic Turks ' Movement for Rights and Freedoms ( MRF ) for its working majority in the Assembly . |
| 16 | UDF leaders entered into negotiations with leaders of the ethnic Turks ' Movement for Rights and Freedoms ( MRF ) , whose withdrawal of support for the government had forced its resignation in October . |
| 17 | As on so many issues both now and in the past , the pre-war women 's movement was neither homogeneous nor united . |
| 18 | Over the years I have kept my distance from the white women 's movement . |
| 19 | This conference , going by its title , was organised by feminist/socialists who are supposed to represent a more progressive tendency in the white women 's movement . |
| 20 | During the 1970s and 1980s , especially during the United Nations Decade of Women ( 1976–1985 ) , the international women 's movement made media producers , communication planners , and others aware of the need to think about women and the media in the context of development . |
| 21 | It included religious and social movements ( like the Catholic Church and the international women 's movement ) , large business corporations ( like Coca-Cola , Ford , McDonald 's ) , communications and media links , and even individuals holidaying abroad . |
| 22 | Well over two decades of failure to mount any effective challenge to the established order led to their being seen for what they fundamentally were : bureaucratic ‘ enclaves ’ of the international workers ' movement with little substantial contribution to make to the debate on Latin American development . |
| 23 | [ As a ] professional leadership group , organically structured and hierarchical , the behaviour and thought of the Communist Party of Brazil leadership corresponds with their situation as a social category and their political nature as leadership apparats of a party belonging to a particular current of the international workers ' movement . |
| 24 | Having said that , I have never got involved in the Black Women 's Movement . |
| 25 | It has also borrowed heavily from the experience of Afro-America 's shift into electoral politics — the black mayors ' movement and so on . |
| 26 | Professor X and his father Sonny Carson , founders of the Black Men 's Movement Against Crack , have led Blackwatch through a series of political actions such as registration drives to encourage the ghetto to vote , and visits to schools and youth groups to discuss surveying ‘ the white kryptonite ’ — crack . |
| 27 | It should also be recognised that the emerging women 's movement of the late 1960s was part of this politicisation process . |
| 28 | Recent feminist historians have insisted that the repeal struggle needs to be seen not just as one of the single-issue campaigns which characterized the reform politics of radical liberalism , but as a landmark in the history of the nineteenth-century women 's movement and in the development of a feminist politics of sexuality . |
| 29 | Wilson also had decided views on Tommy Lewis , " the man who almost destroyed the Great Seamen 's Movement in 1911 " . |
| 30 | They visibly sharpened at the end of the decade as medics were forced onto the defensive by a growing feminist campaign demanding the repeal of the acts — itself part of the wider upsurge of the mid-Victorian women 's movement . |