Sentences with phrase «prominent campaigner»
The phrase "prominent campaigner" refers to someone who is well-known and actively advocates for a specific cause or idea. They are visible and influential in promoting and raising awareness about the issue they care deeply about. Full definition
In fact, contributors Bob Cummings, Irving Stowe and Paul Watson — who went on to found the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society — were among the founders and prominent campaigners for Greenpeace.
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Chris Huhne, the Lib Dem energy secretary and prominent campaigner for a yes vote, accepted that there would be no further attempt to introduce voting reform during this parliament and that it was «over» for AV.
«I'm so happy,» said his beaming wife, Lilian Tintori, who has become a prominent campaigner for the opposition.
The audacity of the prominent campaigner for reproductive rights illustrates the kind of changing of attitudes that would lead to the 1967 Abortion Act.
A prominent campaigner for remain, the former education secretary has used her position at the helm of the Treasury select committee since losing her cabinet position to press the government over its plans for leaving the EU — often acting as a voice for business in parliament in her efforts to prevent a no - deal Brexit.
On the leave side too, Kate Hoey and Gisela Stuart were prominent campaigners.»
Actor Hugh Grant, who has been a prominent campaigner involved with the Hacked Off campaign, told BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show that he was deeply concerned by «weird rumblings» emerging from Whitehall.
[38] The party's 2014 leadership election was won by Jim Murphy, an MP who had previously served as Secretary of State for Scotland and had been a prominent campaigner for the pro-Union side in the referendum.
In 1988, Matthew Meselson, a biochemist from Harvard and a prominent campaigner against biological weapons, arranged for Soviet officials to give a lecture tour in the US to present their explanation of how the anthrax outbreak could have been caused by contaminated meat.
While Sulu is the first gay character in the long - running franchise, George Takei, who played him in the original series, is a prominent campaigner for gay rights.
That's why I see little merit in descriptions of the reinstatement as an exoneration — a word used by Michael E. Mann, a Pennsylvania State University * climate scientist who, like Gleick, has become a prominent campaigner for action on curbing greenhouse gases.
A clear focus is the research center run by the agency's star climatologist, James E. Hansen, who has variously been hailed and attacked for becoming a prominent campaigner against coal and oil use.