He is a prominent defender of agrarian values and has an appreciation for traditional farming.

He has been described as " the most prominent defender of the rights of Quebec's anglophones.

Chamberlain, as the government's foremost defender of the war, was denounced by many prominent anti-war personalities, including David Lloyd George, a former admirer of the Colonial Secretary.

Medved became an outspoken defender of Mel Gibson's film, The Passion of the Christ ( 2004 ), which had been criticized as antisemitic by many prominent Jewish groups.

Early in the decade, it was prominent as a defender of the new trade union movement in Poland, Solidarity.

Many Arminians disagree with this generalization and believe it is libelous to Jacobus Arminius and the Remonstrants, The Anglican defender of Arminianism and Methodism founder, John Wesley, as well as other prominent classical and Wesleyan Arminians, maintain the doctrines of original sin and the total depravity of the human race.

Ontario's Environmental Bill of Rights was also approved during his tenure as Minister of Environment and Energy. He was a prominent defender of public ownership of Ontario Hydro and sceptic on nuclear power.

The most prominent defender of the cognitive closure thesis is philosopher Colin McGinn.

Smith has been a prominent defender of public safety programs, calling for safer roads and increased police foot patrols.

It might be added that while Alvarez did not look favourably upon Sanguinetti's candidacy in 1984, he has in recent years found a slightly unlikely defender in Sanguinetti, who has argued that the amnesty relating to the dictatorship of 1973-1985 should not be set aside to prosecute even the more overtly military and unpalatable figures such as Álvarez, who were prominent during that period.

Adam was a prominent defender of Canada's Western Grain Transportation Act ( sometimes called the " Crow Benefit "), a subsidy which covered transportation costs for farmers shipping wheat.

She also was a prominent defender of Kimberley Glasco in her battle with the National Ballet of Canada.

* Duke Red: A prominent figure, and a defender of robots ' rights.

Although there were many large and prominent cities during the Tang, the rural and agrarian areas comprised the majority of China's population at some 80 to 90 %.

The composer Richard Wagner ( 1813 – 83 ) ( Der Ring des Nibelungen, 1853 – 70 ) and playwright Henrik Ibsen ( 1828 – 1906 ) were prominent in their critiques of contemporary civilization and for warnings that accelerating " progress " would lead to the creation of individuals detached from social values and isolated from their fellow men.

Marge has higher morals than most other characters, once leading a family values crusade against the violent Itchy & Scratchy Show and being a prominent member of the " Citizens ' Committee on Moral Hygiene.

Some of their most noted songs have been without choruses and have featured dramatically atmospheric dynamics, conveyed through either distorted guitar crescendos, lavish orchestral arrangements or prominent, looped / shifting basslines, underpinned by high and exacting production values, involving sometimes copious digital editing and mixing.

This novel reflects Confucian values that were prominent at the time it was written.

Unlike other large Brazilian cities much farther north, notably Brasilia, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro who observe a pronounced summer maximum in precipitation amounts, the city of Porto Alegre experiences a prominent winter maximum in precipitation values and cloud cover, for the summer season is primarily hot and dry ; though evidently high humidity levels often give a distinct mugginess to the air and negatively impacts air quality.

Shūzō took up a teaching post at Kyoto University, then a prominent center for conservative cultural values and thinking.

He was appealing to his fellow tradespeople and craftspeople with these gifts, a middle class which would have been only too pleased to see their values promoted by such a prominent figure.

In contrast, this does not give a perfect Pearson correlation. When the data are roughly elliptically distributed and there are no prominent outliers, the Spearman correlation and Pearson correlation give similar values.

Boumédiènne showed himself to be an ardent nationalist, deeply influenced by Islamic values, and he was reportedly one of the few prominent Algerian leaders who expressed himself better in Arabic than in French.

The Calvinist values of salvation, righteousness and piety, so prominent in the early Readers, were excluded from the later versions.

Indeed, these values allow Inkscape's founders to remain well represented in the decision making project without deterring newcomers, who, in turn, have come to play prominent roles.

Two prominent Russian professors, Troitsky and Kokovtzov, spoke on behalf of the defense in praise of Jewish values and exposed the falsehood of the accusations, while professor of Kiev Theological Seminary Orthodox Christian philosopher Alexander Glagolev affirmed that " the Law of Moses forbids spilling human blood and using any blood in general in food.

Also, many Portuguese people in Hawaii behave in the local custom and embody local values than those of other Caucasian descent ; Portuguese influence is prominent in the fusion cuisine and pidgin communication of Hawai ' i. At the same time, however, one should not assume that every white person who " acts local " ( speaking pidgin, wearing " rubbah slippahs ," etc.

Pressure-redistributive mattresses are used to reduce high values of pressure on prominent or bony areas of the body.

The number of iterations chosen has a large effect on the image — higher values give sparser more detailed appearance, as a few of the points pass through a large number of pixels before they escape, resulting in their paths being more prominent.

Founded by the prominent cognitive linguist George Lakoff, the Rockridge Institute sought to examine the way that frames — which Lakoff describes as " the mental structures that influence our thinking, often unconsciously "— determine our opinions and values.

The related idea that fundamental values can, and in some cases, do conflict with each other is prominent in the thought of Max Weber, captured in his notion of ' polytheism '.

Kung fu cinema was particularly influenced by Chang's concern with his vision of masculine values and male friendship ; the female warrior figures who had been prominent in late 1960s wuxia work were sidelined, with prominent exceptions such as the popular Angela Mao.

The campaign was notable for the admission of Cameron, a prominent family values campaigner, that he had had an extramarital affair, and Owens won the seat on preferences, despite a swing to the government in New South Wales.

A prominent reason appears to be the two countries are very alike, from their similar flags to their culture values.

A conservative Christian, Morrow also is a prominent advocate for " traditional family values ".

Anna Botsford Comstock, the head of the Department of Nature Study at Cornell University, was a prominent figure in the nature study movement and wrote the Handbook for Nature Study in 1911, which used nature to educate children on cultural values.

However, as Gerhard Kubik points out, performers of African popular music do not necessarily perceive these progressions in the same way: " The harmonic cycle of C-F-G-F prominent in Congo / Zaire popular music simply cannot be defined as a progression from tonic to subdominant to dominant and back to subdominant ( on which it ends ) because in the performer ’ s appreciation they are of equal status, and not in any hierarchical order as in Western music.

Other prominent jazz pianists, including Oscar Peterson, Dave McKenna and Marcus Roberts, show their appreciation of this historical jazz style by including it in their solo performances.

Li was a prominent opponent of Zhao's efforts to reform the Chinese economy, and disliked Zhao personally for Zhao's appreciation of " foreign stuff " and for Zhao's willingness to learn from the economic models that had been successful for the Asian Tiger economies and for the West.

There Chambonnières, who was the most prominent French harpsichordist of his time and musician to the King, introduced the young musician to the Court ; Couperin's talents met with appreciation ; by 1651 Couperin was already living in the city.

However, as Gerhard Kubik points out, performers of African popular music do not necessarily perceive these progressions in the same way: " The harmonic cycle of C-F-G-F prominent in Congo / Zaire popular music simply cannot be defined as a progression from tonic to subdominant to dominant and back to subdominant ( on which it ends ) because in the performer ’ s appreciation they are of equal status, and not in any hierarchical order as in Western music.

Grillo often receives letters of appreciation and support from prominent figures, such as Antonio Di Pietro ( former Italian Minister of Infrastructures ), Fausto Bertinotti ( former President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies ), Renzo Piano, and even Nobel Prize Winners ( like Dario Fo, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Dalai Lama, Muhammad Yunus ).

The Boll Weevil Monument in downtown Enterprise, Alabama, United States is a prominent landmark and tribute erected by the citizens of Enterprise in 1919 to show their appreciation to an insect, the boll weevil, for its profound influence on the area's agriculture and economy.