Perez Esquivel

[per-uhz es-kuh-vel, pe-res es-kee-vel]

noun

1. Adolfo born 1931, Argentine sculptor and human rights activist: Nobel Prize 1980.

Example Sentences

Morris, who is Assange’s former attorney, wrote that “leading figures, from former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin to Nobel Prize winners, such as human-rights campaigner Adolfo Perez Esquivel, have been calling for Julian’s freedom.”

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The supporters’ camp, visited by hundreds of activists including allied politicians, leftwing intellectuals and the Argentinian Nobel peace prize winner, Adolfo Pérez Esquível, was set up when Lula was jailed earlier this month on corruption charges.

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One of his friends was Argentine human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, who said Cardinal Arns saved him twice from the Brazilian dictatorship.

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One of his friends was the Argentinean human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, who said Cardinal Arns had saved him twice from the Brazilian military.

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Indeed, in Argentina, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for fighting against a brutal right-wing dictatorship, celebrated Castro’s life in an interview with Venezuelan state television.

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