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activist

An activist is someone who is trying to change a situation, especially one that is political or environmental. He is an activist for Greenpeace.

activist

advocating or engaged in activism (= militant) a militant reformer

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Simple sentences

Greta Thunberg is a climate activist.
Hundreds of thousands of people joined teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg for a march in Montreal Friday, part of a second wave of global protests demanding action on climate change.
Einstein was not only a scientist, but also a social activist and a humanitarian.

Movie subtitles

Activist.
Just look at our activist!
He's a radical activist with a prison record.
Life here, being an activist, means civil death.
Besides, why would an environmental activist try to kill her?
Political activist, eh?
The assassination was claimed by a partisan activist brigade called PAV.
An honorable assosciate in you service, Mr Alfred Zimmer, was just murdered in Zurich tramway by a commando in the Partisan Activist brigade.
What do you think of this Partisan Activist Brigade?
Personally. I must say this Partisan Activist Brigade is hardly representative of our national genius.
Are you a 12th-century druid and political activist?
I eventually became a League activist.
I was an activist from the first hour after the war.
You're not a rebel activist, are you?
A junior activist. We know that.
If you feel like it, you can even be a full-time activist.
Have you heard of Gianpaolo Rizzo, the trade union activist?
Do you know what it means to be a union activist around here?
Ferdinando, do you remember the name of that trade union activist?
Lee Robert Brown, well-known author, broadcaster and political activist.
You can starve and wither. You're a well-known activist, after all.
So what if an activist is tortured to death? Nobody will ever give a damn.
Here in Los Angeles, Gay Activist spokesman, Harry Twig, issued a statement applauding the alleged violation of the ethics committee rules, after an extended filibuster in a special caucus.
I first thought you were an activist.
We spoke to activist Billy Fraser.
Ex-pioner, x-member of People's Youth and Socialist Union, ex-youth activist,.ex-member of Communist party.
That's what the arch-criminal Hitler said to G. Dimitrov, a political activist.
And that's when you became less of an activist and more of an official.
He's an activist.
I'm sorry to have to tell you this, but you're under suspicion of handing over money to an anti-war student activist.
The money you handed him went straight to an anti-war student activist.
The accused considered the witness a committed activist.
Once she was put forward as a union activist and since then nobody has managed to put her back.
There were many activist groups.
Oh, I'm an environmental. activist, and as soon as I heard the island was being evacuated, well, I flew straight down.
Attorney Gerardo Escobar, civil rights activist. and on the short list for Minister of Justice. met with the president for an hour this afternoon.
Here to comment on the footage is Ms. Julia Blanchen, an activist in the movement to drive out robots.

News and current affairs

As the American scholar and activist Hussein Ibish recently argued, Obama has appointed a cabinet designed to give him maximum room to negotiate a deal with Iran.
Complementing the role of speculation, activist states have played several roles in encouraging innovation.
Activist states around the world have funded basic science and served as early customers for the novel products that result.
Meanwhile, a blind human-rights activist escapes from illegal house arrest, finds refuge in the United States' embassy in Beijing, and leaves the compound only after claims that Chinese authorities in his hometown had threatened his family.
There has been a great deal of speculation about the consequences of Bo's fall, and of the daring escape of the human-rights activist, Chen Guangcheng, after 18 months of house arrest.
When Farai Maguwu, a Zimbabwean human rights activist, disseminated information about the abuses, he was arrested (he has since been released).
Moreover, the increasingly activist government has left businesses uneasy about future regulatory and tax measures, and thus reluctant to invest.
There is a remarkable similarity between those policies and the activist measures pursued by the highly successful East Asian economies over the past two decades.
More than a century ago, the Korean activist Ahn Jung-geun assassinated Japan's first prime minister, Hirobumi Ito, at the railway station in the Chinese city of Harbin, cementing Ahn's status as a hero in Korea and a terrorist in Japan.
Unlike Politkovskaya, the great scientist and human right activist Andrei Sakharov had not been murdered, and the tribute given to him then looked like the celebration of a new era.
Instead, Greece should concentrate on activist policies that attract globally competitive firms, an area where Ireland has much to teach - and where Stiglitz has sensible things to say.
While environmentalists have started to acknowledge this, the industry received a lot of activist support when it began - and neither agribusiness nor green-energy producers have any interest in changing course now.
One activist gathered 100,000 signatures on a petition to oppose using the mosquitoes in eradication efforts.
He was an activist in the democratic opposition and in Solidarity, who fought for Polish independence and human freedom, and who paid a high price for it.
Denying a visa to Russian human rights activist Sergey Kovalyov?
Sondos Asem is a promising young scholar and political activist.
People began taking matters into their own hands by attending rallies, signing petitions, and donating to political parties and activist groups in unprecedented numbers.
According to Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian lawyer, human-rights activist, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, the restrictions are part of a government policy to limit women's opportunities outside the home.
The Beijing-based dissident writer Liu Xiaobo, an activist intellectual in the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations, questioned the government's motives for opposing the war.
On the other side was the Chinese solution, with increasingly costly reserve management giving way to activist sovereign wealth funds looking for strategic participation in investments abroad.
Thugs thrashed civil rights activist Lu Banglie in the Guangdong town of Taishi in early October.
Mandela had long been my personal hero, from my student days in the 1960's, when - like so many others of my generation - I was an anti-apartheid activist.
The law is used to reward the regime's cronies and to penalize its critics, such as the businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the activist Alexei Navalny.

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