Carnegie was an ardent supporter of commercial “ survival of the fittest ” and sought to immunity from business challenges by dominating all phases of the steel manufacturing procedure.

During the height of the reign of terror, David was an ardent supporter of radicals such as Robespierre and Marat, and twice offered up his life in their defense.

A key force behind these reforms was Mahmud Tarzi, Amanullah Khan's Foreign Minister and father-in-law — and an ardent supporter of the education of women.

An ardent Federalist, Marbury was active in Maryland politics and a vigorous supporter of the Adams presidency.

In after-dinner conversation at his home near Versailles, Laboulaye, an ardent supporter of the Union in the American Civil War, is supposed to have said: " If a monument should rise in the United States, as a memorial to their independence, I should think it only natural if it were built by united effort — a common work of both our nations.

Few details are known about the SQVII relaunch, save that there was one very ardent supporter, who later left Vivendi.

" Father ," as the children called him, was an ardent Unionist, a prominent supporter of Abraham Lincoln and the Union effort during the American Civil War.

As a Democrat ( after his criminal indictment by the Taft Administration ), Watson was an ardent supporter of Roosevelt.

He became an ardent supporter of Governor " Fire Alarm Joe " Foraker ; however, his political stance put him at odds with those who controlled local politics in Marion.

At Mount Abu, he met Raja Ajit Singh of Khetri, who became his ardent devotee and supporter.

Fonda was an ardent supporter of the Democratic party, and " an admirer " of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The VVD is a party founded on liberal philosophy, traditionally being the most ardent supporter of ' free markets ' of all Dutch political parties, promoting political, economic liberalism, classical liberalism, cultural liberalism, but also ( in contrast to this ) committed to the idea of the welfare state.

Fitzgerald was a quiet but ardent supporter of many charities and non-profit organizations, including the American Heart Association and the City of Hope Medical Center.

Despite his previous support of the patronage system, Arthur, nevertheless, became an ardent supporter of civil service reform as president.

Arthur Harris, AOC Bomber Command ( nicknamed " Bomber " Harris in the British press, and known as an ardent supporter of area bombing ) was asked for his opinion, and proposed a simultaneous attack on Chemnitz, Leipzig and Dresden.

Cornelis Lely ( after whom Lelystad is named ) was an ardent supporter, an engineer and later government minister, whose 1891 plan formed the basis for what were to become the Zuiderzee Works.

" An ardent supporter of state rights, Henry was an outspoken critic of the United States Constitution.

For her sons, she secured Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury of whom she was an ardent supporter.

His widow has claimed that Camus, though discreet, was in fact an ardent supporter of French Algeria in the last years of his life.

He was an ardent supporter of longtime President Félix Houphouët-Boigny, who in 1990 appointed him chief of the army following a mutiny.

Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka was an ardent supporter of the Shinkansen, and his government proposed an extensive network paralleling most existing trunk lines.

As governor, Long became an ardent supporter of the state's primary public university, Louisiana State University ( LSU ) in Baton Rouge.

MI5 head Guy Liddell wrote in his diary: " Unity Mitford had been in close and intimate contact with the Führer and his supporters for several years, and was an ardent and open supporter of the Nazi regime.

After leaving, he was an ardent supporter of the Labour Party for the rest of his life, remaining a member for over sixty years.

In Arkansas, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Sid McMath vigorously supported Truman in speeches across the state, much to the consternation of the sitting governor, Benjamin Travis Laney, an ardent Thurmond supporter.

The myth made him out to be a dogmatic ideologue and ardent nationalist when, in fact, he was ideologically flexible.

Even most of the birds, the most ardent singers, stop singing and producing other sounds when they sit on the ground.

He was an early and ardent proponent and user of computers as a tool for art making, dating back to the mid 1960s, when Alison Knowles and he created the first computer generated literary texts.

Previously ardent and bombastic, French became hesitant and cautious, giving different answers about the date when the BEF could be expected to begin operations in the field.

Croker had been an ardent supporter of Robert Peel, but finally broke with him when he began to advocate the repeal of the Corn Laws.

His temper as leader was, however, too gentle to satisfy the more ardent spirits among his own followers, and party cabals ( in which Lord Randolph Churchill, who had made a dead set at the " old gang ", took a leading part ) led to Sir Stafford's elevation to the Lords in 1885, when Lord Salisbury became prime minister.

He was supported by the General Assembly, and many of the more ardent students transferred to other institutions when Yale reopened in 1743.

He attached himself to the Girondists, whose vague deism, sentimental humanitarianism and ardent republicanism he fully shared, and from March to November 1792 he published, at Jean Marie Roland's expense, a bi-weekly journal-affiche, of which the title, La Sentinelle, proclaimed its mission to open all of Europe to the Enlightenment at a time when, after the Habsburg declaration of war on France and the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars, a schism between the king and his subjects had become obvious.

Blaikie was an ardent philanthropist, and an active and intelligent temperance reformer, in days when this was far from easy.

An ardent opponent of gun control, Brown-Waite is known for proudly carrying a gun when she is home living in the 5th district.

The worst time was between 1906 and 1911, shortly after separation of the Mariavites, and between 1923 and 1937, when Polish nationalism was ardent.

He was an ardent pacifist when international affairs did not pertain to Germany directly.

Darwin had Gray in mind when he wrote that " It seems to me absurd to doubt that a man may be an ardent theist & an evolutionist.

Dr Johnson was probably speaking of the old church at Cille Mhic Eòghainn when he said: " Ulva was not neglected by the piety of ardent times: it has still to show what was once a church.

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.

His father, Colonel James M. MacKaye, was a successful attorney and an ardent abolitionist ; Steele's mother died when he was young.

According to Professor Robert S. Wistrich, Myatt, when a Muslim, was a staunch advocate of " Jihad, suicide missions and killing Jews ..." and also " an ardent defender of bin Laden ".

Like Verdi, Piave was an ardent Italian patriot, and in 1848, during Milan's " Cinque Giornate ," when Radetsky's Austrian troops retreated from the city, Verdi's letter to Piave in Venice was addressed to " Citizen Piave.

He sided with President Andrew Jackson on the question of nullification ; was an efficient supporter of President James K. Polk's administration during the Mexican-American War ; and was an ardent advocate of slavery extension into the territories, but when the Compromise of 1850 had been agreed upon, he became its staunch supporter as a Union Democrat.

In February 1861, Johnson made an ardent stand in favor of the Union and warned against the Southern states attempting to force his home state into secession ; when a referendum on secession in Tennessee failed shortly thereafter, generally credited to Johnson's speech, Lane took the Senate floor on March 2 to accuse the southern Senator of having " sold his birthright.

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.

1980 ), when he found that his exposé did not lead Casteneda's most ardent followers to fall away.

Barry later enters a tournament with Mr. Lee and Ms. Chan and finally sees his dreams fulfilled when Chuck Norris, originally only a guest at the tournament but persuaded by Lee to aid one of his most ardent fans, joins them as a team member.