" Writing in The New York Times, Anthony Boucher — described by a Fleming biographer, John Pearson as " throughout an avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man "— was again damning of Fleming's work, saying " it's harder than ever to see why an ardent coterie so admires Ian Fleming's tales ".

Rosenbaum is an ardent New York Rangers fan and often plays in charity hockey games.

Moreover, he had brought from Europe a new manner, imbued with ardent Romanticism and this he wore without ease in the formal, self-satisfied and prim provincial society of New England ; the young man's European air was subjected to ridicule, but his politics were sympathetic to Jacksonian democracy.

New York magazine wrote: " Ethan Hawke ’ s Hotspur ... is a compelling, ardent creation.

He is a particularly ardent supporter of former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani.

An ardent supporter of Canadian Confederation, Connell was elected as a Member of Parliament representing the New Brunswick electoral district of Carleton in the first two Canadian parliaments.

He was an ardent advocate of the supremacy of the Textus Receptus over all other editions of the Greek New Testament, and argued that the first editors of the printed Greek New Testament intentionally selected the texts they did because of their superiority and disregarded other texts which represented other text-types because of their inferiority.

Humphrey, an ardent New Dealer, supported Johnson's war policy.

The first New Right embraced " fusionism " ( classical liberal economics, traditional social values, and an ardent anti-communism ) and coalesced through grassroots organizing in the years preceding the 1964 presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater.

Bax was an ardent antifeminist, and wrote many articles in The New Age and elsewhere opposing women's suffrage.

The ardent New Dealers in the Franklin Roosevelt administration looked to Munn v. Illinois to guide them in matters like due process, commerce and contract clauses.

According to one source, " owards the close of his life Judge Peleg was widely known, not only as an extensive dealer in, but an ardent lover of, New England Rum.

Murray the K reached his peak of popularity in the mid-1960s when, as the top-rated radio host in New York City, he became an early and ardent supporter and friend of The Beatles.

The founder of NYIT ( New York Institute of Technology ), entrepreneur and eccentric millionaire Dr. Alexander Schure, had a long and ardent interest in animation.

Nonetheless, because of his vacillation in contrast to more ardent independence-minded delegates, as well as his noted familial loyalty to New York, it was considered a better use of his talents working on the frontier against British agitation amongst the Indian tribes.

In the House, he was an ardent champion of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal.

Always himself on the unpopular side and an able but thoroughly fair critic of the majority, he habitually underestimated his own worth ; he was not only an anti-slavery leader when abolition was not popular even in New England, and a radical and rationalist when it was impossible for him to stay conveniently in the Unitarian Church, but he was the first president of the National Free Religious Association ( 1867 ) and an early and ardent disciple of Darwin and Spencer.

Along with her brother at the New York Daily News and her cousin at the Chicago Tribune, Patterson was an ardent isolationist and opponent of the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Babbin is an ardent detractor of what he describes as the " 527 Media ", which he considers to be composed of The New York Times, The Washington Post, ABC, CBS and NBC.

He is an ardent basketball player, and played for the New Orleans basketball team at the 2008 NBA All-Star Celebrity Game alongside Ne-Yo, Terrell Owens, Taylor Hicks, and Master P .< ref >

An ardent opponent of Prohibition, Irene Ferrer was named, in 1934, the New York State chairman of the Citizens Committee for Sane Liquor Laws.

There was quick response – so, in addition to the Alpha Chapter, at Howard ; Beta, Morris Brown University ; Gamma, Morgan College ( Gamma was a second Chapter, so named because they wished to carry the same name as the Sigma Chapter on Morgan's Campus ); Delta, Kansas City State College ; and Epsilon, New York City, were started by ardent brothers who saw the good in my meditations and in the work done by those first faithful sisters: Arizona Cleaver, Myrtle Tyler, Viola Tyler, Fannie Pattie and Pearl Neal.

South Carolina US Senator James Byrnes, though also an ardent New Dealer, opposed this new push, claiming it would make the state's textile mills uncompetitive.

South Carolina US Senator James F. Byrnes, though also an ardent New Dealer, opposed this new push, claiming it would make the state's textile mills uncompetitive.

When his congressional career ended, Time magazine described him as " a wheelhorse in a pasture of mavericks ," explaining that " he worked on the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, defended the Court Plan, was the most ardent New Dealer among the Monopoly Investigation Committee's Congressmen.

Linkous was one of the most ardent supporters of Johnston, an outsider artist who has had a long battle with mental illness.

" Grams " was one of his most ardent supporters and managed his fan club, often writing personal letters to members, and visiting music stores to make sure they carried Monkees records.

It was founded and managed by the Cuban-American Otto Reich, an ardent opponent of Fidel Castro.

One of the greatest and most brilliant statesmen of his time, thoroughly acquainted with European politics, and well versed in affairs, he was a convinced if somewhat too ardent partisan of reform and the principal author of the legislative remodelling of Turkish administrative methods known as the Tanzimât ( تنظيمات ).

In the legislative council he was an ardent defender of the religious and civil rights of his co-religionists, and in 1822.

Soustelle, a one-time leftist and by 1955 an ardent Gaullist, began an ambitious reform program ( the Soustelle Plan ) aimed at improving economic conditions among the Muslim population ( Library of Congress ).

He was an ardent racist who enthusiastically pursued an ' ethnic cleansing ' program to rid the Warthegau of Poles and to resettle the ' cleansed ' areas with ethnic Germans.

During the few remaining months of Andropov's life Romanov was widely seen as one of Andropov's closest collaborators and was an ardent supporter of Andropov's comprehensive program for the reform, renewal and further development of socialism in the Soviet Union and beyond, a fact which stands in sharp contrast to the picture Gorbachev and his associates were later to paint of Romanov as a means of gaining advantage in the power struggles following Andropov's death in February 1984.

At NASA Headquarters, Washington D. C. since 1974, he first served as a NASA program manager in charge of long-range planning of deep space manned activities ( flights beyond Earth orbit ) and he is an ardent advocate of manned space exploration and SETI.

An ardent supporter of Ante Starčević's political program, he quits the civil service in 1883 in order to pursue a political and literary career.

The study of liberal arts, he believed, contributed to rhetorical study: " In the case of a keen and ardent nature, fine words will come more readily through reading and hearing the eloquent than by pursuing the rules of rhetoric.

The efforts to provide arms for hostages eventually became connected, through the transfer of funds made with arms sales, with the NSC staff's ardent support for the Nicaraguan " Contras " in their civil war against the left-wing government of Nicaragua.

This strand of criticism of Gance's reactionary politics has continued through later assessments of him ; it has also noted his ardent support for Pétain in the early years of World War II, and subsequently for Charles de Gaulle in the 1960s.

Baker, a World War I aviator and ardent bird lover, was also a businessman, and he set about to invigorate the society and bolster its budget prosperity through publication.

Clavell was a proponent of free trade, an ardent individualist and anti-fascist-the novel alludes to these concepts through the often critical depiction of both European traders and hostile Chinese and to a lesser degree, the British Parliament and their trade policies and practices, especially where the opium trade was concerned.

Although Baxter was an ardent foe of the Klan, it found a foothold in the Maine Republican Party through the influence of state senators Owen Brewster, Mark Alton Barwise, Hodgdon Buzzell, and others, who sponsored bills in the early 1920s which would have cut aid to parochial ( Catholic ) schools, thus creating a ' wedge issue ' between Maine's Protestant and catholic communities.

At the end of his life, however, Brown broke with the ardent segregationist Smith, checking himself out of the hospital to help shepherd the Voting Rights Act of 1965 through Smith's Rules Committee, and earning the lasting gratitude of the civil rights movement.

Talcott Parsons, an American sociologist, asserted that stability and social order are regulated, in part, by universal value although universal values were not identical with " consensus " but could as well be the impetus for ardent conflict as it had been multiple times through history.

The museum tells the real story of the lady with the lamp from her Victorian childhood to her experiences in the Crimean, through to her years as an ardent campaigner for health reform.

He was, however, an ardent proponent of measures to prevent crime among " occasional criminals " through social reform, and of efforts to rehabilitate them.

An ardent socialist, Leonora O ' Reilly was a delegate to the 1915 Hague Women's Peace Convention, sailing through mine-laden waters aboard the MS Noordam.

The municipal government ’ s ardent thrust to provide basic services to its constituents can be well manifested by its current pursuit to develop a level III type of water system through funding from the World Bank.

On the contrary, he was one of the most ardent opponents of the reform and predicted at the Parliament of 1865-66, when he was Chairman of the Committee on Government Affairs ( Statsutskottet ), that the fatherland would meet with an unhappy future if the reform were carried through.