An interesting insight into Porteous ' experience is that from 1960 until his death in 1978 Porteous was an enthusiastic advocate of the medical benefits of niacin.

) The reason for the change from BR-549 to BR-1Z1Z was during the 1980 season, Junior gave up the car lot and became a " consumer advocate " whose job was to save the public from dishonest people like himself.

That same year, according to The Observer, PETA gave a $ 5, 000 grant to American animal rights activist Josh Harper, an advocate of arson.

His tutors included the Scottish scholar, John Elder, who had been an advocate of Anglo-Scottish union by the marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots, to Prince Edward, and gave his opinions to Henry VIII as the Advice of a Redshank in 1543.

Bob Leckie of the RCAF was a strong advocate for years for an industry to design and build aircraft in Canada yet the Department of National Defense, according to Avro's Roy Dobson, gave " a cold reception " to doing more than building under licence.

The Lord Chancellor ( Lord Dilhorne ), the Attorney General ( Sir John Hobson ) and the Solicitor General, ( Sir Peter Rawlinson ) privately gave Home their opinion that the American blockade of Cuba was a breach of international law, but he continued to advocate a policy of strong support for Kennedy.

Establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism.

He wrote and gave public addresses, continuing to advocate an East Asia League partnership with China and Manchukuo and continuing to oppose the invasion of China.

Through Maderna, he became acquainted with Hermann Scherchen — then Maderna's conducting teacher — who gave Nono further tutelage and was an early mentor and advocate of his music.

On July 8, 1938, barely two years after the death of Germany's main strategic bombing advocate, Generalleutnant Walter Wever, the Luftwaffe's commander-in-chief Hermann Göring, gave a speech saying, " I completely lack the bombers capable of round-trip flights to New York with a 4. 5-tonne bomb load.

However, Major General Oliver O. Howard, an advocate for African American civil rights and in charge of the trial, acquitted Smith of all charges and gave him a light punishment for unruly conduct.

His knowledge of law, business, and human character, a flexible and often passionate eloquence which derived its force from intense earnestness rather than oratorical device, marvelous dexterity in extracting the truth from witnesses, and a manifest honesty of purpose gave him a power over judge and jury which made him universally regarded as the first advocate of his age.

He belonged to a wealthy merchant family, but gave up a commercial career for the law, and became advocate before the parlement of Rouen.

A Royal Commission in 1919 gave R. H. Tawney, Sidney Webb, and Sir Leo Chiozza Money the opportunity to publicly advocate nationalisation, but this was rejected as a solution at that time.

An advocate for protecting wildlife, Winn gave the name Pale Male to the Red-tailed Hawk that nested on a Fifth Avenue building, receiving much press coverage.

Green was seen as a strong advocate of EU parliamentary and institutional reform: she was vocal in her criticisms of any hint of impropriety, for example calling ex-commissioner Martin Bangemann's appointment to Spanish telecommunications giant Telefonica " sleaze soaked " for the impression it gave that he had used his position in the EC for his own advantage – even though he had broken no rules.

Its establishment gave the United States, for the first time, a four-star, unified combatant commander to serve as single-point-of-contact for Defense Transportation System ( DTS ) customers and to act as advocate for the DTS in DOD and before Congress.

" I'm the biggest advocate of adjusting to Miranda Sharifi gave the world.

Just as some traditional forms of Jewish thought gave emphasis to fear of punishment as a helpful contribution to beginning Jewish observance, before progressing to more mature levels, so too do some Jewish approaches advocate motivation from eternal reward in the Hereafter, or the more refined ideal of seeking spiritual and scholarly self-advancement through Torah study.

After becoming an embarrassment to his seniors, he was relieved of command and reassigned to a local army base at Japan. He wrote and gave public addresses, continuing to advocate an East Asia League partnership with China and Manchukuo and continuing to oppose the invasion of China. Ishwara's political nemesis, Tōjō, now risen to the highest ranks, felt that the outspoken Ishiwara should be retired from the Army, but feared the reactions of young officers and right-wing activists.

An advocate of Scientific Humanism, Knight gave two short radio talks on the BBC Home Service in 1955 under the title Morals Without Religion.

Historian Ron Chernow is of the opinion that his frustrations in dealing with government officials during this conflict led him to advocate the advantages of a strong national government and a vigorous executive agency that could get results ; other historians tend to ascribe Washington's position on government to his later American Revolutionary War service.

Stirred by the events and principles of the French Revolution, he wrote and published anonymously two pamphlets which led to him being seen as a devoted defender of liberty of thought and action and an advocate of political changes.

Renowned as being the " Father of Railways ", the Victorians considered him a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement, with self-help advocate Samuel Smiles particularly praising his achievements.

saw him as a major source of the republicanism that spread throughout England and North America in the 17th and 18th centuries and Leo, whose view of Machiavelli is quite different in many ways, agreed about Machiavelli's influence on republicanism and argued that even though Machiavelli was a teacher of evil he had a nobility of spirit that led him to advocate ignoble actions.

His enjoyment of motoring made him an advocate of funding for public highways.

* March 22 – In Washington, D. C., General Motors President James M. Roche appears before a Senate subcommittee, and apologizes to consumer advocate Ralph Nader for the company's intimidation and harassment campaign against him.

The media have sensationalized him with the sobriquet, " the Devil's advocate ", and he himself has contributed to his " notorious " public persona by such acts as titling his autobiography The Brilliant Bastard and giving provocative replies in interviews.

Despite a possible conflict of interests, Maskelyne being an advocate of the lunar distance method of determining longitude, the Board of Longitude sent him to Barbados in 1763 to calculate the longitude of the capital, Bridgetown by observation of Jupiter's satellites, and also to test his lunar distance method and compare its accuracy to John Harrison's chronometer, the No. 4 timekeeper.

His inability to make headway against the de facto two-party system as an independent in that election would later lead him to become an advocate for Instant Runoff Voting, helping to found FairVote in 1992.

As with the shortened rule of Vladimir Lenin, speculators have much room to advocate their favourite theories and to develop the minor cult of personality which has formed around him.

He said the Roman consulate corresponded to Poitiers ' mayor, the senate to the town's peers and échevins, and the democratic element in Rome corresponded to the fact that most important matters " can not be decided except by the advice of the Mois et Cent ( broad council ).< sup > 1 </ sup > The mayor appears to have been an advocate of a mixed constitution ; not all Frenchmen in 1595 would have agreed with him, at least in public ; many spoke in favour of absolute monarchy.

During the many years it took him to save money, Patel — now an advocate — earned a reputation as a fierce and skilled lawyer.

Buck has compared him to Winston Churchill, another advocate of imperial policies who held fast to his beliefs after the tide of history had turned against him, and who rose to his peak of prominence at his country's darkest hour.

The divisional judge advocate, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Sommer, again offered Slovik an opportunity to rejoin his unit and have the charges against him suspended.

Progressive, left, center-left and peace movement related individuals and organizations, as well as the opposition parties, labor and youth groups advocate keeping ( and even strengthening ) the existing constitution in these areas, while right-leaning, nationalist and / or conservative groups and individuals advocate changes to increase the prestige of the Emperor ( though not granting him political powers ) and to allow a more aggressive stance of the self-defense force, e. g. by turning it officially into a military.

In his earlier controversies, he had borne himself with great magnanimity, and the Huguenot ministers he refuted had found him a kindly advocate at court.

Pope John Paul II beatified him on May 6, 1990, during a Mass at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, declaring December 9 Juan Diego's feast day, one day after Immaculate Conception and invoking him as “ protector and advocate of the indigenous peoples .”

He dedicates his time to a personal institute created by him in São Paulo, based on the model of bodies created by former Presidents of the United States, has written two books about his experience as President of Brazil and started to advocate for a relaxation on criminal laws relating to drugs, generating both criticism and praise.

As Fox's advocate on The Greatest Canadian, media personality Sook-Yin Lee compared him to a classic hero, Phidippides, the runner who delivered the news of the Battle of Marathon before dying, and asserted that Fox " embodies the most cherished Canadian values: compassion, commitment, perseverance ".

Because of Agilbert ’ s inability to express the complicated arguments in Old English, which was for him a foreign language, Wilfrid was selected as the prime advocate for the Roman party.

As a result, Fanon has often been portrayed as an advocate of violence ( it would be more accurate to characterize him as a dialectical opponent of nonviolence ) and his ideas have been extremely oversimplified.