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Example sentences for "agitators"

Lexicographically close words:
agitating; agitation; agitational; agitations; agitator; agitur; agleam; agli; aglitter; aglow
  1. I do not for one moment pretend that this is the case in the Mint--there some of the vestrymen are among the most earnest agitators for a new order of things.

  2. Names new to him were in every mouth, and, the last doubts swept away, he saw with concern for his own safety that the ship of state, guided by such agitators as he saw around, was predestined to disaster.

  3. Messages were said to be interchanged and tokens to be passing, which usually denote a state of restless among them, and the character of the agitators pointed to the sources of excitement.

  4. When sectional agitators shall have succeeded in forcing on this issue, can their pretensions fail to be met by counter pretensions?

  5. For many years this break-up has been foretold by political pessimists inside and outside the Habsburg dominions, and by many interested agitators both in Central and in Western Europe.

  6. They cared nothing and understood less of the political theories which the revolutionaries assiduously preached among them, but they pricked up their ears when the agitators began to talk about land and taxation.

  7. But Haase, Ledebour and the other agitators had done their work too well.

  8. Everywhere the same picture: from the chief centers, Kiel and Hamburg, trains carrying armed marines and agitators are being sent out into the country.

  9. Leaders of the Kiel mutineers met the Berlin agitators in different cities and cooperated with them.

  10. Liebknecht, "Red Rosa" Luxemburg and other Spartacans joined the Independent agitators in revolutionary propaganda among the soldiers and in making preparations for the final coup.

  11. The Deutsche Tageszeitung, while deploring lynch law and summary justice, declared that the deaths of the two agitators must be regarded as "almost a Divine judgment.

  12. Upper Silesia reported serious labor troubles throughout the mining districts, due to Russian and German Bolshevist agitators and Poles.

  13. It seems that the reports which that girl has made have been translated into several languages, and are being used by labor agitators down there to stir up trouble.

  14. Cartagena was en fĂȘte; the last of the political agitators would be executed on the morrow.

  15. Revolution after revolution broke out in this unhappy country, sometimes stirred up by the priests, sometimes by political agitators who tried to get control of the Government.

  16. The scuffle grew into a riot, the tavern was sacked, and the drunken mob, hounded on by agitators who declared that the Jews were using Christian blood for the manufacture of their Easter bread, attacked and looted the Jewish quarter.

  17. Imperceptibly the agitators had grouped themselves into two classes, economic and ethnological anti-Semites.

  18. The vicinity of Putney, with exasperated Levellers and Agitators all about, had become really unsafe for Charles; and, after some meditation and hesitation, he had himself arranged a plan of escape.

  19. There began to be comments among the Agitators on the dilatoriness of Cromwell, and especially on his coquettings with the King.

  20. The Levelling Principle itself would be a useful force in his hands, and he could well consent to being abused by the Agitators while they were really working for his ends!

  21. The Austrians, and those who sympathised with Austria as the great conservative power of the Continent, ascribed all this to the perversity of the Italian nature, and to the influence of agitators and conspirators.

  22. There could not be more tempting materials for agitators to work upon.

  23. In Egypt we have already seen how an amicable arrangement between Lord Milner and the Egyptian nationalist leaders was facilitated by the latter's fear of the social revolutionary agitators who were inflaming the fellaheen.

  24. The native press was muzzled, the agitators imprisoned or executed, and the hands of the authorities were strengthened by punitive legislation.

  25. New types of agitators were springing up, preaching to the populace the most extreme revolutionary doctrines.

  26. For foreign capitalists will not give money to be squandered by filibusters and irresponsible agitators who, like bubbles in boiling water, appear on the surface and disappear at once.

  27. These youthful agitators disquieted the regular nationalist leaders, who felt themselves threatened both as party chiefs and as men of social standing and property.

  28. Directed by a small group of noisy agitators devoid of real ability, the Turkish Government suppressed it without much difficulty.

  29. He influenced not merely violent agitators like Arabi Pasha but also conservative reformers like Sheikh Mohammed Abdou, who realized Egypt's weakness and were content to labour patiently by evolutionary methods for distant goals.

  30. Constantinople became the Mecca of all the fanatics and anti-Western agitators like Djemal-ed-Din.

  31. This was precisely what Pan-Islam's agitators had been preaching for fifty years--the Crusade of the West for Islam's destruction.

  32. We of the South regard the agitators in Congress, for the most part, to be of this class.

  33. They strongly rebuke the restless agitators of the country.

  34. How far these lofty considerations may constitute items in the catalogue of motives which prompt the political agitators of the country to press the subject of African emancipation, I pretend not to say!

  35. It is the usual practice to stir the curd immediately after cutting for five to ten minutes before the mechanical agitators are used.

  36. This is necessary to give the curd a slight chance to firm as the mechanical agitators tend to break it up.

  37. These agitators save much hand labor, although some stirring by hand must be done in connection with them.

  38. The mechanical agitators do not stir the curd in the corners of the vat; this must be done with the hand rake.

  39. Mechanical curd agitators are used in some cheese factories.

  40. Two of the agitators were placed under arrest and confined in the lock-up.

  41. They are the victims of a form of ostracism; blacklisted as dangerous agitators in every steel and iron mill in the country.

  42. It is not within the province of the writer of this narrative to analyze the peculiar aspect put upon the case of the workingmen by political agitators for campaign purposes.

  43. Irish agitators appear occasionally but not often, and they rarely carry away a full purse from the collections they invariably take up.

  44. The sturdy farmers of Devon have ideas of their own and do not see why the efforts of a few Irish agitators should be allowed to break up an Empire.

  45. The painted ceilings, the crimson damask canopies and hangings, and the handsome furniture were considered by many political agitators to be a great violation of republican simplicity.

  46. Hence judges thought it within their province to denounce political agitators when charging a grand jury.

  47. The wise course was to detach the respectable agitators from the agitators who were not respectable by substantial improvements in the franchise and the distribution of seats.

  48. Industrious as they were, the agitators were too closely identified with France to be popular, and it was not till the end of the war that the middle and working classes as a whole began to lend them a favourable ear.

  49. Conference of Pupils of the School of Agitators to the effect that they had personally tested the reluctance of Headquarters to take elective organisations into account.

  50. Have you heard what was done to the Commander of the Doubov Regiment, because he refused to confirm an elected Company Commander and put three agitators under arrest?

  51. He has chosen to agitate this question; and he has presented that question, the decision of which, let senators vote as they may, will best please the agitators who are urging the fanatics forward.

  52. You propose to the people that they overthrow their present leaders in the industries of their nation in order that you and your fellow agitators may become their masters.

  53. And many of our labor agitators would declare, in exactly the same spirit, that nothing but the final and absolute downfall of the employer class can ever end the struggle.

  54. At the present day these leaders and agitators tend more and more to usurp the place of the public authorities in proportion as the latter allow themselves to be called in question and shorn of their strength.

  55. These ringleaders and agitators may be divided into two clearly defined classes.

  56. The King's Government exhibits itself in a conspiracy with Catholic agitators and Protestant republicans against the clergy of the Established Church and against the laws of the land.

  57. It is not alone that the voices of statesmen and of newspapers reach me, and that the voices of foolish and intemperate agitators do not reach me at all.

  58. Demagogic agitators swarmed in the land, instilling poison wherever they went, and rejoicing as they saw the virus do its work in the breaking out of festering sores.

  59. But the agitators were not to be thus baffled.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "agitators" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.