Meanings of lead a movement in English

He had become expected to lead a movement of protest and dissent.

That style was deployed to lead a movement that lacked the coherence and discipline of its opponents.

For a party that aspires to lead a movement, it is not helpful to appear to obstruct the will of the people.

In Senegal, a holistic and nondirective education program called Tostan, founded in 1991, has empowered villagers to lead a movement against female genital cutting.

This musician is leading a movement to start a musical revolution in India.

They are leading a movement of change which is gathering momentum.

Breton was a writer who led a movement most remembered for its art.

But it's not-I'mnot leading a movement or anything.

His wife was a German princess, and led a movement which ended in his being deposed, imprisoned and murdered.

He led a movement.

Last year, Warren successfully led a movement to derail Obama's plan to appoint banker Antonio Weiss to the top job at Treasury.

Her father led a movement of anti-system, extremist outsiders, from Catholic fundamentalists to monarchists who railed against the state and loathed the public sector.

While in power, he infuriated everyone -from the chief justice, whom he sacked, to lawyers who led a movement against him, to clerics.

Jackson was among student activists who led a movement during the former center-right government of Sebastian Pinera demanding reforms to Chile's highly privatized education system.

A pioneer in the latest urban farming craze - freshwater tilapia - he is leading a movement in the dilapidated South Bronx called "aquaponics".