pro-democracy movement

collocation in English

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movement
noun
uk
/ˈmuːv.mənt/us
/ˈmuːv.mənt/
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(Definition ofmovementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Throughout the occupation, as during the year-longpro-democracymovementthat preceded it, women par ticipated directly as activists and auxiliaries.
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We should give thepro-democracymovementthe moral support it deserves.
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When he was a graduate student, he joined thepro-democracymovementin 1989.
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Many notable news anchors arrived to cover thepro-democracymovement.
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That is a matter for its own people, although we would all like to see apro-democracymovementemerge from the civil war.
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It went on violently to suppress a nationwidepro-democracymovement, having, when they took office in 1988, done something to promote that unworthy cause even then.
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Enahoro has had a long and distinguished career in the press, politics, the civil service and thepro-democracymovement.
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The village scouts were to counter the communist insurgency and thepro-democracymovementof the 1970s.
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Furthermore, he has coordinated many emergency relief support programmes for the victims of natural disasters, armed conflict andpro-democracymovement.
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In a speech to graduating students, he criticized thepro-democracymovementby telling students to concentrate on their studies and leave politics to their elders military government.
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Opposition groups accused the government of staging the attack to sully the oppositions image and validate its own argument that it is fighting blind violence rather than apro-democracymovement.
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