* Douglas Engelbart, as an internet pioneer, the inventor of the computer mouse, in human – computer interaction, committed, vocal proponent of the development and use of computers and networks to help cope with the world ’ s increasingly urgent and complex problems

He is a committed, vocal proponent of the development and use of computers and networks to help cope with the world ’ s increasingly urgent and complex problems.

T. H. Huxley, the proponent of Darwin ’ s theories of evolution, also found Zadig's approach instructive, and wrote an in his 1880 article " The method of Zadig ":

The evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin, a colleague of Gould ’ s, is a proponent of said argument in relation to the cognitive ability tests that determine a person ’ s intelligence quotient.

As literature, Tannhäuser ’ s poems parody the traditional genre, because he was a proponent of the leich ( lai ) style of poetry ; however, the Bußlied ( Poem on Atonement ) is unusual, given the eroticism of the remaining Codex Manesse.

An early admirer of Jean Baudrillard ’ s Consumer Society ( 1970 ), Ritzer is a leading proponent of the study of consumption.

Always a strong proponent of public education, Governor Musgrove focused his attention while in office on building a solid foundation for economic growth through Mississippi ’ s public schools.

It was a leading proponent of Operation Desert Storm against Iraq, and according to Frank Starr, head of the Baltimore Sun ’ s Washington bureau, the foundation ’ s studies, " laid much of the groundwork for Bush administration thinking " about post-Soviet foreign policy.

A proponent of biblical study and interfaith education, she taught a Sabbath school class and also provided religious services to her family ’ s slaves — a practice her mother originally frowned upon, but later participated in.

U. S. President Theodore Roosevelt, himself a proponent of physical culture and exercise, proclaimed, “ If I wasn ’ t president of the United States, I would like to be George Hackenschmidt .”

As the world ’ s leading proponent of mass production techniques, Colt went on to deliver a lecture on the subject to the Institute of Civil Engineers in London.

Davies has had a longstanding association with the problem of time ’ s arrow, and was also a early proponent of the theory that life on Earth may have come from Mars cocooned in rocks ejected by asteroid and comet impacts.

Game Informer bemoaned the game's poor controls and awkward isometric camera, saying that " I ’ m not a big proponent of the isometric view, and marrying it to sloppy stealth-style gameplay only exacerbates the problem.

Even the great proponent of the Arab cause, Jāḥeẓ, wrote a Ketāb al-taswīa bayn al-ʿArab wa ’ l-ʿAǰam.

Etienne Gilson ( 1884 – 1978 ), the key proponent of this approach to Thomism, tended to emphasize the importance of historical exegesis but also to deemphasize Aquinas ’ s continuity with the Aristotelian tradition, highlighting instead the originality of Aquinas ’ s doctrine of being or existence.

Its main proponent is Mario Alinei, who advanced the theory in his Origini delle Lingue d ’ Europa, published in two volumes in 1996 and 2000.

Eisenhower was a proponent of FDR ’ s New Deal and more than likely disapproved of the idea of the internment camp as a whole.

The railroad ’ s president at the time, John H. Burdakin, was also a proponent of the Automatic Car Identification ( ACI ) system.

One of Stürmer ’ s leading critics, Jürgen Kocka, himself a proponent of the Sonderweg view of history, argued that “ Geography is not destiny ”.

As an extremely active member of the Natal legislature and a passionate proponent of responsible government, Ridley became the main opponent of the political reforms introduced by Sir Garnet Woleseley to downgrade the Natal legislature in order to pave the way for the implementation of Lord Carnarvon ’ s plan for a confederation of the South African states.

Born in Karlsbad, Bohemia in Austria-Hungary ( present-day Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic ), Frank was taught by his father ( a proponent of Georg Ritter von Schönerer ’ s policies ) about nationalist agitation.

According to Nguyen and Barber, Thich Nhat Hanh ’ s fame in the Western world as a proponent of engaged Buddhism and a new zen style has “ no affinity with or any foundation in traditional Vietnamese Buddhist practices ” and according to Alexander Soucy ( 2007 ) his style of Zen Buddhism is not reflective of actual Vietnamese Buddhism.

Morand, a man of fin de siècle sensibilities, believed in the credo of “ art for arts sake .” He was ingrained with a deep pessimism, influenced by his father ’ s cautionary advice to “ be always distrustful .” He was an intellectual proponent of Friedrich Nietzsche, and Oswald Spengler espousing the philosophers ’ belief in the decadence and decline of civilization.

As Virginia Woolf, a later proponent of intellectual investigation into Finch ’ s life and work, once famously wrote, “ I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman ” ( Woolf, A Room of One ’ s Own ).

Dr. Brian Day, who acted as President of the CMA in 2007 / 2008, is the owner of the largest private healthcare hospital in Canada and a proponent of mixed public and private healthcare in Canada.

One proponent ( and the main sponsor ) of the bill John Kavanagh, stated that he “ couldn ’ t understand what would drive student loan up to tens of thousands of dollars .” The bill was meant to increase the incentives of students who actually want to go to college, so that they would have some “ skin in the game .”

Senator Ralph Yarborough was its most powerful proponent in Congress and the bill was proposed by Charles Wilson and Bob Eckhardt that established the 84, 550-acre Preserve.

Before donating to the UN, Turner was a proponent for the protection of the environment, especially in combating global warming.

Lapierre was a strong proponent of the Meech Lake Accord, while Turner and Martin also expressed support for it, though Trudeau publicly campaigned against it and his protege Chrétien was later revealed to oppose it as well.

Media mogul Ted Turner was once an aggressive proponent of this process, by employing the San Diego firm American Film Technologies.

Costa Rica has been a strong proponent of regional arms-limitation agreements.

He was an early proponent of religious toleration, and enjoyed the sobriquet " Prince of the Humanists "; he has been called " the crowning glory of the Christian humanists ".

Varadkar in particular has been a strong proponent of small, indigenous business, advocating that smaller firms should benefit from the government's recapitalisation program Its former finance spokesman Richard Bruton's proposals have been seen as approaching problems from a pro-enterprise point of view.

Gabon has been a strong proponent of regional stability, and Gabonese armed forces played an important role in the UN Peacekeeping Mission to the Central African Republic ( MINURCA ).

* A proponent or practitioner of humanism, which has several distinct senses, which are listed at Humanism and at Humanism ( disambiguation )

Jarmusch has been a major proponent of independent cinema, particularly during the 1980s and 1990s.

Ashcroft has been a proponent of the War on Drugs.

The main proponent of such a theory is Noam Chomsky, the originator of the generative theory of grammar, who has defined language as a particular set of sentences that can be generated from a particular set of rules.

It has also in recent times been an active proponent of regional co-operation.

The MS NL has been involved with international projects of The Mars Society from the starts, it is a strong proponent of European cooperation in space endeavours.

Meanwhile, the LDS Church has become a proponent of monogamy and patriotism, has extended its reach internationally by a vigorous missionary program, and has grown in size to 14 million members.

Hare, proponent of universal prescriptivism, has argued that the rules of logic are independent of grammatical mood, and thus the same logical relations may hold between imperatives as hold between indicatives.

Paraguayan foreign policy has concentrated on maintaining good relations with its neighbors, and it has been an active proponent of regional co-operation.

He has been a major proponent of the role of sleep in memory consolidation.

As the U. S. government remains the most active proponent of the " rogue state " expression, the term has received much criticism from those who disagree with U. S. foreign policy.

As part of his work with technology, Papert has been a proponent of the Knowledge Machine.

Although not a public proponent of sabermetrics, it has been widely noted that Beane has steered the team during his tenure according to sabermetric principles.

An early proponent of the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative, Uruguay has actively participated in the follow-up process to the periodic Summits of the Americas, especially the Free Trade Area of the Americas ( FTAA ).

He is best known as a proponent of reduced legal restrictions on copyright, trademark, and radio frequency spectrum, particularly in technology applications, and he has called for state-based activism to promote substantive reform of government with a Second Constitutional Convention.

Writing about a study that seemed to undermine the deterrence effect, a death penalty proponent wrote, " The research didn't cover a long enough period of time ", while an opponent's comment on the same study said, " No strong evidence to contradict the researchers has been presented ".