Young is strong believer in user-generated content and open source software.

A strong believer in the notion of rule by divine right, England's Charles I persecuted religious dissenters.

Lewis himself was a strong believer in the intrinsic value of nature for itself, rather than as a resource to be exploited.

Thanks to a theological pamphlet attributed to him, Middleton is thought by some to have been a strong believer in Calvinism, among the dominant strains in the theology of the English church of his time, which rigidly divides humanity into the damned and the elect, which focuses on human sinfulness and inadequacy more than in the other denominations of Christianity.

* The believer typically makes a positive virtue of faith's being strong and unshakable, despite it not being based upon evidence.

Webb has stated, " I am a strong believer in God ... God is important to me.

A strong believer in the value of technical education, Whitworth backed the new Mechanics ' Institute in Manchester ( later UMIST ) and helped found the Manchester School of Design.

Raja Rajasekhara was in his previous birth a rich and pious ' Brahmin ' by name Vijayan who was a very strong believer and devotee of Lord Dharma Sastha.

As a civil libertarian, and a strong believer in the promotion of both official languages, Robarts opened the door to French education in Ontario schools.

* George Lakoff ( one of America's foremost linguists, also ( like Erickson ) a strong believer in the significance of metaphor )

This was interpreted as a move away from a strong freedom of information law, as Irvine was thought not to be a firm believer in the concept.

A strong believer in the magic of necromancy, he also declared that he had been Grand Minister to the Emperor Yao during a previous incarnation.

( Shaw was a strong believer in presenting Shakespeare's plays uncut.

He was a strong believer in the view that Islamic law owes its origins to Roman Law but in the opinion of Patricia Crone his arguments here are " uncharacteristically weak ".

In response, NPR further stated that according to Gore, she " wasn't out to censor the objectionable material " and quoted her as stating that she is " a strong believer in the First Amendment " who is calling for greater " consumer information in the marketplace.

While the Panthers had developed a loyal following, Taubman was a strong believer in the original spring football concept.

He had by now shed much of his socialist ideology of earlier years, though he was still a strong believer in state planning.

In this revolution, James II ( 1633 – 1701, reigning 1685-1688 ), a Catholic, a younger brother to Charles II, and a strong believer in the Divine right of kings, was forced to flee to France in 1688 by the Protestant Parliamentarian forces.

As a strong believer in the promotion of both official languages, he opened the door to French education in Ontario schools.

He was also a strong believer in international law:

Although he had no military background he was a firm believer in strong defence and armed forces with a global capability.

His attempts to reduce conflict with Māori were undermined by Governor Grey, who had returned for another term, and was a strong believer in the need to confront Māori militarily.

* Mr. Gonzalez is the office manager at Levy Pants, meek and skittish in demeanor, but fervently loyal to the company and a strong believer in its philosophy, if it indeed has one.

He was a strong believer in the law of use and disuse — that an individual will slowly, over time, favor an anatomical part of its body so much that it will become stronger and larger as time progresses down the generations.

Not wanting to be part of Hitler's new regime, constitutional rule was restored in 1932, and a strong middle-class party, the Radicals, emerged.

Costa Rica is a republic with a strong system of constitutional checks and balances.

After an initially conservative period, strong liberal sentiments arose, so that in the 1848 constitution the country was made a parliamentary democracy with a constitutional monarch.

Some of the characteristics of a presidential system ( i. e., a strong dominant political figure with an executive answerable to them, not the legislature ) can also be found among absolute monarchies, parliamentary monarchies and single party ( e. g. Communist ) regimes, but in most cases of dictatorship, their stated constitutional models are applied in name only and not in political theory or practice.

Motivated by his understanding of the American model, he advocated a strong, popularly elected presidency as a constitutional counterbalance to the power of the professional bureaucracy.

Even without this consideration, refusing such a request would arguably create a constitutional crisis, as it is considered a fairly strong constitutional convention that the head of state always grants a parliamentary dissolution.

Uruguay is a strong advocate of constitutional democracy, political pluralism, and individual liberties.

Globally, a majority of the world's people live in representative democracies including constitutional monarchy with strong representative branch – the first time in history that this has been true.

This period was built on the strong natural independence of the Norwegian farm culture, combined with awareness of the American Revolution ( 1775 – 1783 ) and the French Revolution ( 1789 – 1799 ), building the natural national assertiveness, and culminating in the constitutional convention of 1814.

Critics of Milošević claimed that the government continued to be authoritarian despite constitutional changes, as Milošević maintained strong political influence over the state media.

However, it has become strong constitutional convention for the President to act on the Chancellor's advice.

Yasuhiro Nakasone, a strong advocate of constitutional revision during much of his political career, for example, downplayed the issue while serving as prime minister between 1982 and 1987.

Despite the fading of bitter wartime memories, the general public, according to opinion polls, continued to show strong support for this constitutional provision.

The 1879 constitutional convention also dispatched a message to Congress pleading for strong immigration restrictions, which led to the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882.

The politics of Barbados function within a framework of constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary government with strong democratic traditions ; constitutional safeguards for nationals of Barbados include: freedom of speech, press, worship, movement, and association.

Although under the Statuto Albertino Italian governments were responsible only to the monarch, it had been a strong constitutional convention since at least the 1860s that they were actually responsible to Parliament.

With the constitutional unification of England with Scotland in 1707 and then with Ireland in 1800, Britannia became an increasingly important symbol and a strong rallying point among Britons.

The Workers ' Party helped write the country's post-military government Constitution, ensuring strong constitutional guarantees for workers ' rights, but failed to achieve a proposed push for agrarian reform in the Constitutional text.

In an interview published 26 August 2007, he said that he had no intention to seek a constitutional change so that he could run for a third consecutive term ; he also said that he wanted " to reach the end of term in a strong position in order to influence the succession.

In effect it protects the British tradition of parliamentary supremacy under the American-style system of written constitutional rights and strong courts introduced in 1982.

In particular, he was a strong advocate of national self-determination, and stood firmly on the side of constitutional liberties on the Continent.

He proclaimed a constitutional monarchy similar to the contemporary regime in Italy, created a strong police force, and instituted the Zogist salute ( flat hand over the heart with palm facing downwards ).

It had been constitutionally mandated by the new AFL – CIO constitution created by the merger of the AFL and CIO in 1955, as CIO unions felt that the AFL's commitment to industrial unionism was not strong enough to permit the department to survive without a constitutional mandate.