activist
IPA: ˈæktʌvʌst
noun
- One who is politically active in the role of a citizen; especially, one who campaigns for change.
- One who is conspicuously active in carrying out any occupational or professional functions.
adjective
- Behaving as an activist.
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Examples of "activist" in Sentences
- PPP activists thrash reporters.
- The Activist was replaced by the Slacker.
- I think people can be confused by the term "activist".
- So, Carol, we hear the term activist judge a lot lately.
- 'Jen Dugan' is an American activist, writer, and muralist.
- A riveting memoir of a civil rights activist and comedian.
- The injunction did not forbid the removal of the activists.
- That is the function of the propagandist or political activist.
- He continues to be active in training activists in nonviolence.
- He is an activist in the protection of the Brazilian rainforest.
- Condemning the prosecution of the labor activists, it noted that.
- Nikiforov was an activist of the Russian revolution working countrywide.
- What if all the activist is asking is that the animals be treated * humanely*?
- The term activist judge refers to judges who make rulings based on what they feel the law SHOULD be.
- Others have mentioned to me that the word activist conjures echoes of communist, terrorist, and feminist.
- You know, the term activist judge wearing its hat again with the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.
- If you thought he was talking tough before, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is hitting harder at what he calls activist judges.
- As an active campaigner, I hate the term activist, I know that the vast majority of the MPs, from all sides of the political spectrum do NOT lie to get elected.
- As such, the Definer decided to offer a kernel or two of opinion on the subject of marriage, to which the AP lent an ear: President Bush said the “sacred institution†of marriage between a man and a woman must be defended against what he called activist court rulings.
- In a Senate floor speech in which he sharply criticized a recent Supreme Court ruling on the death penalty, Cornyn R-Tex. -- a former Texas Supreme Court justice and member of the Judiciary Committee -- said Americans are growing increasingly frustrated by what he describes as activist jurists.