* John H. Adams ( NRDC ) ( born 1936 ), US environmental advocate, co-founder of the Natural Resources Defense Council

Agnew's successor, Marvin Mandel, appointed Tawes as Secretary of the newly-created Department of Natural Resources, where he served as an advocate for the protection and nurturing of Maryland's environment.

In 2009, the Southern Poverty Law Center attacked the party as a "' Patriot ' Group ," described as a group or groups that " advocate or adhere to extreme antigovernment doctrines.

The law, named after longtime MAS board member and chief advocate, Albert S. Bard, provided a legal foundation for the New York City Landmarks Law, enacted in 1965.

He was a major advocate of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, which required the co-operation of local law enforcement officials in free states to return escaped slaves.

During recent years, Mr. Temkin has used his influential Sunday column in El Mercurio de Valparaíso to advocate for many major policy issues, such as the creation of a " Ley Valparaíso " ( Valparaíso Law ) in the Chilean Congress, and the possibility that the Chilean government must guarantee funding for the preservation of Valparaíso's beloved funicular elevators.

In a reminiscence on his early training as an advocate in Edinburgh, Sir Walter Scott describes the law as " Scotch Law " some four times and as " Scots Law " just once.

While studying at Harvard Law School, Curry was inspired by the lectures of Horace Mann and became an advocate of free universal education.

In the United States, for example, non-profit legal advocacy organizations, such as the American Civil Liberties Union, the Landmark Legal Foundation, the Pacific Legal Foundation, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Center for Law and Justice or NORML, frequently submit such briefs to advocate for or against a particular legal change or interpretation.

He was the main sponsor of the bill that created the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and was active as an advocate for mass transportation initiatives and domestic legislation facilitating and conforming to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Smith was an advocate for a criminal code of England and Wales, working on a draft criminal code in the early 1980s, which was adopted by the Law Commission in 1989.

As a result of the concerns raised by Marchand ’ s statements, the British Foreign Office requested a judicial opinion from the three Law Officers of the Crown ( the queen ’ s advocate, the attorney general, and the solicitor general ) on the legality of capturing the diplomats from a British ship.

She worked as an advocate with the Community Law Office in Brussels, before becoming a political advisor to the European Democrats group in the European Parliament in 1983 until 1989.

Although not advocate of violent measures, as deputy to the National Convention with The Mountain, Merlin de Douai voted for the execution of King Louis XVI, and then, as a member of the council of legislation, he presented to the Convention the Law of Suspects ( 17 September 1793 ), permitting the detention of suspects ( a document backed by Georges Couthon and Maximilien Robespierre ).

Yasmine, a graduate of the George Washington University School of Law, worked for ten years as a lawyer for the Children ’ s Law Center as a legal advocate for at-risk youth.

He served as secretary for the Publishers ' Association for many years and was an advocate of the creation of International Copyright Law.

She worked as a consumer advocate in the office of the City Attorney in Los Angeles, was a fellow in the School of Criticism and Theory at Dartmouth College and served as associate professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School and its department of women's studies.

Currently Associate Director of the Lester Pearson Institute for International Development and an advocate of international co-operation, she is recognized as an authority on the Law of the Sea and is respected for her undisputed knowledge, her outstanding leadership abilities and her commitment to a better future for all.

They advocate continuing to use brain fingerprinting in criminal investigations and counterterrorism while research on the technique continues ( ABC Good Morning America 2004 ABC-TV Good Morning America: Charles Gibson interviews Dr. Lawrence Farwell, CBS 60 Minutes: Mike Wallace interviews Dr. Lawrence Farwell, Simon 2005 " What you don ’ t know can ’ t hurt you ," Law Enforcement Technology.

His medical knowledge and assistance is often very valuable as well, and on one occasion ( after a " cram course " in the Law of the Fenechus ) he acted as Fidelma's advocate to successfully get her released when she was charged with murder ( see Valley of the Shadow ), although his use of a bluff to get a witness to admit to lying shocked her sensibilities as a dalaigh.

He also continued to write and advocate regarding Federal Indian Law, publishing The Erosion of Indian Rights 1950-1953: A Case Study in Bureaucracy, 62 Yale L. J.

As a member of the King's Bench, he was a strong advocate of Common Law over the King.

The Bill, also known as the Ley de la Mordaza ( Gag Law ), made it illegal to display a Puerto Rican flag, to sing a patriotic tune, to speak of independence, or to advocate for the liberation of the island-even if this speech or advocacy occurred in one's own living room.

Like Edmund Law and Francis Blackburne ( archdeacon ) he was an advocate of soul sleep.

Some within the cognitive science community, however, consider these to be vital topics, and advocate the importance of investigating them.

Some delegations within the group, notably the United Kingdom Independence Party, also advocate the complete withdrawal of their country from the EU whilst others only wish to limit further European integration.

Fascists officially advocate resolution to domestic class conflict within a nation to secure national solidarity.

From early 1939 onwards, Ribbentrop had become the leading advocate within the German government of reaching an understanding with the Soviet Union as the best way of pursuing both the short-term anti-Polish, and long-term anti-British foreign policy goals.

They differ in the type of social ownership they advocate, the degree to which they rely on markets or planning, how management is to be organised within productive institutions, and the role of the state in constructing socialism.

The British moral philosopher John Stuart Mill also came to advocate a form of economic socialism within a liberal context.

Li suffered a heart attack in 1993, and began to lose influence within the Party to vice-premier Zhu Rongji, a strong advocate for economic liberalization.

Lyons became the leading advocate within the government of orthodox finance and deflationary economic policies, and an opponent of the inflationary, proto-Keynesian policies of Treasurer Ted Theodore.

Some within the Orthodox world advocate that while non-Orthodox forms of Judaism are incorrect, they nonetheless have functional validity and spiritual dignity.

When the reluctance within the PSS to advocate on behalf of married women became clear, Pankhurst and her husband helped organise another new group dedicated to voting rights for all women – married and unmarried.

Among public and private groups that published articles advocating for eugenics, the Human Betterment League was a significant advocate for the procedure within North Carolina.

Nagel is probably most widely known within the field of philosophy of mind as an advocate of the idea that consciousness and subjective experience cannot, at least with the contemporary understanding of physicalism, be satisfactorily explained using the current concepts of physics.

State socialism is one of the dividing lines within the broader socialist movement, and is often contrasted non-state or anti-state forms of socialism, such as those that advocate direct self-management, adhocracy and direct cooperative ownership and management of the means of production, and political philosophies such as libertarian socialism, anarchist socialism, anarchist communism, syndicalism, free-market socialism, De Leonism and economic democracy.

* Dennis Hurley, former Catholic Archbishop of Durban, anti-Apartheid activist and advocate for reform within the Catholic Church

After Chiang's forces successfully occupied several strategic locations within the Jiangxi Soviet, in 1934, Lin was one of the first Red Army commanders to publicly advocate the abandonment of the Jiangxi Soviet, but he was opposed by most Red Army commanders, especially Braun and Peng Dehuai.

The Revolutionary Cells – Animal Liberation Brigade ( RCALB ), known simply as Animal Liberation Brigade, is a name used by animal liberationists who advocate the use of freedom and a diversity of tactics within the animal liberation movement, whether non-violent or not.

After the Cuban revolution in 1959, and with a growing radicalization in the 1960s, some within the Salvadoran Communist Party began to advocate armed struggle to overthrow the Salvadoran military dictatorship.

Karl Marx's famous Critique of the Gotha Program criticized what he saw as a Lassallean victory over the Eisenachers whom he favored ; interestingly, Bernstein later noted that it was Liebknecht, considered by many to be the strongest Marxist advocate within the Eisenacher faction, who proposed the inclusion of many of the ideas which so thoroughly irritated Marx.

Certain authors advocate that the Milky Way features two distinct bars, one nestled within the other.

When the Jackson administration failed to take any actions to address their concerns, the most radical faction in the state began to advocate that the state itself declare the tariff null and void within South Carolina.

Upon his election as the union's general secretary, he became one of country's leading labour leaders, and their strongest advocate within the Labour Party.

Pancu's movement, whose original membership did not exceed 40, attempted to revive loyalism within the proletariat ( while offering an alternative to communism by promising to advocate increased labor rights ).

As some sociologists commented on a cultural shift that they believed to correspond to postmodern ways of perceiving reality in the late 20th century, some Christians began to advocate changes within the church in response.

Colby was a vocal advocate within the CIA and the U. S. Government for engaging the non-Communist left wing parties in order to create broader non-Communist coalitions capable of governing fractious Italy ; this position first brought him into conflict with James Angleton.