How to Use anti-apartheid in a Sentence

anti-apartheid

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  • And the anti-apartheid movement had some of its most powerful allies in the US.
    David McKenzie, CNN, 19 Feb. 2023
  • The hero of the anti-apartheid struggle, Nelson Mandela, left the presidency in June 1999.
    Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • But in the antipodes and Africa, a myth built up around Rodriguez; in the latter region, his music was embraced by the anti-apartheid movement.
    Chris Morris, Variety, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Party volunteers blasted hymns from the era of the anti-apartheid struggle, and danced the familiar jig known as toyi-toyi.
    Lynsey Chutel, New York Times, 29 May 2024
  • Nelson Mandela was still in prison, and the ruling parties in South Africa were arresting anti-apartheid protesters in the night.
    Bishop Michael Curry, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2023
  • For one, the anti-apartheid protests did not spark the violent clashes with police and counterprotesters the way today’s demonstrations have.
    Jackie Valley, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2024
  • Some of the student protests, like the Civil Rights and anti-apartheid movements, helped achieve tangible goals that have become broadly accepted over time.
    Richard Fausset, New York Times, 4 May 2024
  • That same year, the new South African government began rolling back apartheid policies, paving the way for historic elections in 1994 that were won in a landslide by anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela.
    Benjamin Case, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The ruling African National Congress has long supported the Palestinians' quest for their own state, linking it to its own anti-apartheid battle.
    Gabriele Steinhauser, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2023
  • Back in Carter’s home state, Atlanta became a hotbed for discussions around economic divestments as anti-apartheid protests grew.
    Kristi York Wooten, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2023
  • Prominent leaders of the anti-apartheid movement visiting India would address them.
    Stephanie Nolen, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Buying seeds, according to a lot of these catalogues, is a political act—hence Fedco’s invoking the anti-apartheid movement to sell purple broccoli.
    Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Kentridge, who was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1955, the son of anti-apartheid lawyers, came of age within a vividly brutal example of pseudoscientific thinking run amok.
    Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
  • There is some precedent for this in the anti-apartheid movement of the 1970s, but the anti-Russia reaction was much faster, bigger, stronger and pervasive, and driven in part by the relentless flogging from Yale professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld.
    Jackson Fordyce, Fortune, 27 Feb. 2023
  • The museum takes an unflinching look at South Africa’s brutal past and complicated present, and devotes significant space to Nelson Mandela and other heroes of the anti-apartheid movement.
    Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2023
  • The son of anti-apartheid lawyers, Kentridge is known for his distinctive artistic style that combines illustration, animation, and film to confront social justice issues.
    Sarah Engel, CNN, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The highly influential environment activist , on the model of the international anti-apartheid dis-investment campaign that successfully brought pressure on South Africa's white-only regime.
    IEEE Spectrum, 13 Nov. 2012
  • In the heat of 1980s anti-apartheid pressure campaigns urging divestment from South Africa, appeals to neutrality would’ve understandably sounded like cynical attempts to evade moral responsibility.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 1 June 2024

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