Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] [noun pl] movement " in BNC.
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1 | Early in the 1830s an alliance between progressive provincial middle-class reformers and respectable working men was seizing control of the London-based anti-spirits movement from its well-to-do leaders and converting it into a broader-based total abstinence crusade against all alcoholic drinks . |
2 | Portuguese cavalry officer and a leader of the Armed Forces Movement , the group of junior officers which overthrew the dictatorship of Marcelo Caetano in the bloodless revolution of 1974 . |
3 | One of the notable features of the mid-Thatcher period was a revival of the civil liberties movement , as governmental pressures against individual right of expression impressed themselves on the public consciousness . |
4 | Later still , by the mid 1960s when the various organisations within the broad front of the civil rights movements had developed sufficiently to conduct their own educational programs , Highlander changed direction again in the thrust of its educational programs . |
5 | The disorganized nature of catholic — nationalist politics was only turned round with the emergence of the civil rights movement of 1968 and the subsequent forming of the SDLP in 1970 . |
6 | The tenth anniversary of the civil rights movement was celebrated on 1 January 1979 amidst a growing alienation of the minority Catholic population , a rising toll not only of violence but also of poverty and unemployment in the six counties , and an increasingly unbridgeable gulf within the majority Protestant ranks , with the Official Unionists and the so-called Democratic Unionists under the Revd Ian Paisley vying with one another in intransigence and extremism . |
7 | It is unclear how quickly this stage would follow the preceding one , but clearly this more radical phase was predicated on a successful achievement of the limited demands of the civil rights movement . |
8 | The Minister said that all of the activities of the civil rights movement had indicated that it was predominantly a Republican body , and activities in Derry did not disprove that . |
9 | It also supposes that vigorous enough action in the early stages of the civil rights movement would have nipped it in the bud and restored Northern Ireland to stability . |
10 | NICRA was the largest and most representative civil rights organisation but it was only one part of the civil rights movement and the original , pre-October NICRA was swamped by hundreds of new activists and thousands of supporters . |
11 | Perhaps some parts of the civil rights movement were genuinely , rather than tactically , assimilationist … |
12 | Derry was the crucible of the civil rights movement . |
13 | In September , O'Brien called a meeting in an attempt to establish a Derry branch of the association but it never got off the ground ; indeed even at the height of the civil rights movement NICRA had branches in north and south County Derry but in the city itself the principal civil rights organisation was the DCAC , which although affiliated to NICRA , was completely autonomous . |
14 | THIS , ALONG with Sly 's ‘ There 's A Riot Going On ’ , attempted to articulate a black America dazed and confused by the failure of the Civil Rights movement and the continuing disaster of Vietnam . |
15 | Normally London left Stormont to get on with these policies , only intervening in 1969 at the time of the civil rights movement when there was a clear danger of a collapse of law and order due to disputes between Catholics and Protestants over local government , over the allocation of houses and of jobs and over the conduct of the Royal Ulster Constabulary and of the armed ‘ B ’ special reserves . |
16 | In an earlier chapter I noted that a study of poor people 's movements in the US concluded that such influence as they had was derived from mass protests rather than from participation in electoral politics ; and a study of the economic progress of black Americans in the late 1970s argued that it was ‘ under the impetus of the civil rights movement and the ghetto revolts of the sixties , [ that ] blacks gained access to new employment opportunities in business , government , the media , and high paying jobs in the skilled crafts ’ ( Smith , 1978 ) . |
17 | Through Roszak 's influence he had read Thomas Merton and Kenneth Rexroth , the anarchists Paul Goodman and Alex Comfort , and had absorbed the new literature of the civil rights movement , Liberation magazine . |
18 | The rank and file of the civil rights movement are also safe and well . |
19 | The end of the eighteenth century saw the development of the United Irishmen movement , a body ( including many prominent northern Protestants ) committed to greater equality for Catholics . |
20 | The operations of the National Savings movement are set out and the special status of National Savings is emphasised . |
21 | The main role of the National Savings movement is to collect the savings of small or relatively unsophisticated savers in order to finance borrowing by the public sector . |
22 | An introductory lecture on land designation and the planning system was followed by a history of the national parks movement from George Yeomans , Deputy National Park Officer . |
23 | Pulatov had told the conference that he had been forced to live outside Uzbekistan since June for fear of repression , and he had accused the Uzbek authorities of political terror and the attempted destruction of the human rights movement in Uzbekistan . |
24 | Although Elton Mayo is considered to be the pioneer of the human relations movement , Lewin was another important theorist who did much research on group dynamics and leadership styles . |
25 | the development of a civil rights movement as an intrinsic but distinct element in the social and political opposition to the regime ; |