noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a party activist (= someone who works hard for a party )
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Campaign literature is distributed by unpaid party activists.
a peace campaigner/protester/activist
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Several peace campaigners were arrested at the demonstration.
animal rights activists/campaigners/groups etc
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Bill has been involved in the animal rights movement for years.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
anti
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Accusations of naivety are levelled at all those who struggle to change the world-from Marx to anti-globalisation activists .
black
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Sister Souljah is a black political activist turned rapper.
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Such actions increased the enmity between the two groups of black activists and led to more conflict.
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He never really understood the anger and impatience of black activists in the 1960s.
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The studied indifference of the federal government increased disaffection among civil rights workers. Black activists especially became increasingly alienated.
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Schoolchildren rioted in protest at examination fees; teachers planned a pay strike; and black activists threatened to occupy white schools.
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How such racist pornographic material escaped the rye of black activists presents a problem.
civil
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A panel of lawyers, academics, consultants, writers and civil rights activists selected the winners.
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Within months, the religious right had begun to compare her plight with that of civil rights activists in the I 950s.
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It follows a campaign by a civil rights activist called John Bugg.
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He then organized a successful effort to channel the energies of civil rights activists into the politically preferable voting rights arena.
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She was a theorist whose intellectual speculations placed her at the cutting edge, even among civil rights activists .
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Well, Paul Robeson, the singer, actor and civil rights activist , for one.
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Among those involved were Bowes Egan and Eamonn McCann, later to become prominent civil rights activists .
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The year is 1964, and three civil rights activists have disappeared in a redneck town in Mississippi.
conservative
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The combination of his views and his casual approach to politics sorely tested some Conservative activists in Aldershot.
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His father, Leo, was a successful lawyer and Conservative activist .
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There was a clear separation between the Cabinet and Mrs Thatcher in the minds of many Conservative activists and observers.
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Dozens of prominent conservative politicians and activists are working to generate memorials to honor the 90-year-old Reagan.
democratic
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Komsomolskaya Pravda claimed that democratic activists were being arrested for proclaiming Niyazov's support for the coup.
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The hotel is owned by well-known Democratic activist Joe Cesare.
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The Martins, longtime Democratic activists , said Thurman arranged for them to give the tape to McDermott.
environmental
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There are no animal rights or environmental activists on the banned list.
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The group, like other environmental activists , would prefer the use of hydrogen alone to generate power for fuel cells.
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The group was divided into two subgroups: one for teenagers, and one for the community's environmental activists .
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Until relatively recently, organized religion has left environmental protection to environmental activists , concerned scientists and political figures.
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Few environmental activists would agree with that judgment.
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There's considerably less bitching about the federal government, environmental activists and co-ed dorms.
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It also points to a developing new alliance between environmental activists and religion.
gay
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At one point a furious gay activists delegation turned up.
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That same year, she supported gay activist Cleve Jones when he considered opposing Brown for his Assembly seat.
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He deserves better than to be criticised by gay activists with such a cheap shot.
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It took a couple of years to develop, but gay activists say they believe that storm has arrived.
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And that is what gay activists in more and more places are seeking.
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The 6-3 ruling was hailed by gay activists as a landmark in homosexual rights.
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These liberals, these feminists, these gay activists .
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The very behaviors that gay activists had spent years promoting seemed to have contained the seeds of disaster.
labour
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The leaflet given to Labour activists mentions none of these things, concentrating on how many ordinary people go to arts events.
local
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He lectured and was a local activist .
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The party elite and the local activists certainly tried their utmost to influence the outcome of elections.
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Workers tell local activists they are notified to clean up before Health Department inspections.
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In May, hundreds of local officials, activists and Eurocrats met in Amsterdam for a summit of their own.
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City leaders and local activists are urging residents to read the report and attend the sessions.
political
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In the 1970s, the prevailing demand among political activists and their academic sympathizers was for freedom first and education later.
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What would these people have to do if they did not infiltrate groups of young political activists ?
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Hundreds of political activists are in prison.
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In 1986, a political activist new to San Francisco was attending a fund-raiser to fight an anti-gay initiative.
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They have struck back by closing more than 40 reformist newspapers and jailing dozens of journalists, students and political activists .
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A political activist for 25 years who has twice run for a seat in the U.S.
republican
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The Nationalists' military advances were everywhere marked by the slaughter of leftist militiamen and of known left-wing and Republican activists .
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Experienced Iowa Republican activists suggest that undecided voters may stay home on what is likely to be a raw wintry evening.
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Other prominent left-wing republican activists were Eamonn Melaugh and John White.
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There, local officials allowed Republican activists to take away several hundred forms and complete them.
social
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One is a social activist with a high moral tone, an earnest do-gooder and role model to millions.
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Those arrested Friday were Lisa Valanti, 47, a social activist of Pittsburgh.
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He knew Chico Mendes, leader of the rubber-tappers and social activist , whose murderers have recently been released from jail.
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Over the past two decades this Wisconsinsized country has become a magnet that has drawn social activists from all over the world.
union
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Since August the group has killed 94 people, mostly community leaders and union activists .
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Runtal, on the other hand, became a union activist .
young
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What would these people have to do if they did not infiltrate groups of young political activists ?
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The old guard, too fond of international conferences, has given way to a younger breed of activist .
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A new breed of zealous, ideologically driven young political activists captured the Republican Party.
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Early in 1915 most of the younger activists resigned in order to devote their energies to developing a women's peace movement.
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And young activists can win the princely sum of £100 if they come up with the winning slogan.
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A number of young activists who had been involved in internal politics since 1976 were also elected.
■ NOUN
aids
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It was the latter path that a group of New York AIDS activists took in 1987.
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His first, Kristine Gebbie, resigned after being criticized by AIDS activists for being ineffectual.
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As demonstrators blew whistles and chanted on the streets, other AIDS activists got stuck into the science.
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Degaying had the opposite effect that many AIDS activists hoped.
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The man who invented foil-embossed paperback covers. Aids activists .
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His opinion has been almost universal among gay and AIDS activists even to this day.
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Many AIDS activists have opposed home test kits, because they feared people would receive inadequate counseling.
community
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Even more ambitious attempts to bring trade unionists and community activists together in educational settings have taken place at Northern College.
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The crowd of affirmative action supporters included university students, government workers, community activists and business people.
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Instead, in the main, it has concentrated on access, second chance, and a limited concept of training for community activists .
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Recently a group of community activists led by Long proposed setting up road signs that would identify it as Citrus Ridge.
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A community activist , he unsuccessfully ran against John de Beck for a city schools seat two years ago.
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Meanwhile, a community activist has become very pro-business.
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Laura, a feisty community activist played by Angela Michelle Navarro, goes the grocer one further.
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On Sunday night, about 300 tenant supporters, community activists and students marched to the site from Justin Herman Plaza.
group
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Dozens of parents, students and national leaders of Latino activist groups unsuccessfully petitioned the school board for her return.
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Federal regulators mean well, as do their defenders among various activist groups , but they are driving people crazy.
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Wolfe is president of the Justice for Pan Am 103 activist group .
opposition
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The clamp down became more brutal: opposition activists were attacked by hit squads and six key opposition leaders were rounded up.
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When the pyramids began to collapse, crowds rioted throughout the small country and opposition activists demanded that the government step down.
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His announcement followed the sentencing earlier in the month of a further 45 opposition activists on charges arising from the February disturbances.
party
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To Liberal party activists , however, it was the extinction of a lamp, the end of an era.
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Some were established party activists , such as entertainer Barbra Streisand, who gave $ 50, 000 to the Democratic Party.
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She and other party activists travelled to Dumfries to hear Joyce address a meeting on 7 February 1935.
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But there were signs of grassroots backlash in the constituencies among the 300,000 party activists who will decide the leadership.
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To suppose that the influence of a minority of party activists will not in the end prevail is to delude oneself.
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Yet others argue that demand is the key, as select implicit or explicit discrimination by party activists .
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Other literature is distributed by the unpaid party activists .
peace
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It is important to grasp what it was that peace activists thought they were trying to prevent.
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Most peace activists remained united by their continuing opposition to rearmament, if by little else.
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For many peace activists , Thabet was a friend, and trusted ally.
student
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The older student activists were disillusioned once again.
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Professors friendly with student activists were forced to resign.
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Dreams and dialectics Hippy and student activist continue to recognize each other as allies.
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More recent readers were student activists .
■ VERB
become
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It may be that this will gradually work through and become apparent in the activists in about five years.
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Jennifer Coburn can pinpoint the moment she decided to become an activist .
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When Mr Michael Foot became leader, activists gained greater control of the party machine.
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Runtal, on the other hand, became a union activist .
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Some, previously only marginally interested, developed a consciousness as trade unionists and became committed activists .
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Observers saw Ochs poised to become the folkie / activist pillar mantle that Dylan had abandoned for rock and less political songs.
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Among those involved were Bowes Egan and Eamonn McCann, later to become prominent civil rights activists .
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Patient leaders, on the other hand, became activists and sought reforms.
lead
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She builds the story from taped interviews with 200 leading activists .
meet
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Then, in the late 1970s, Lovins met and married another activist named Hunter Sheldon.
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But you meet other activists , go to their meetings.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Clinton's AIDS "czar" resigned after being criticized by gay activists for being weak.
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environmental activists
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The Global Communications Group links ecological and other political activists via the Net.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was an activist by total commitment, and a professional.
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He was known to be a political activist , but as far as we know had no record of violence.
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Jennifer Coburn can pinpoint the moment she decided to become an activist .
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Labor activists say that although there are no legal age cutoffs, the industries prefer to hire young and malleable workers.
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Let me suggest another topic: the recent violent murder of two lesbian activists in Oregon.
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Many activists want him to concentrate more on party heartlands.
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Read in studio Animal rights activists have been targetting people and shops in the region for the last five years.