Nehru became an ardent nationalist during his youth.

As a teenager, he became an ardent admirer of Ze ' ev Jabotinsky and Peter Bergson, who were frequent guests in his parents ' home, and joined the Betar ( Brit Trumpeldor ) youth wing of Revisionist Zionism.

It is however clear from Tibetan sources that some of his successors became ardent Buddhists.

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

The Queen was Anne of Denmark, and her father, an ardent Lutheran, had stipulated that she should have the right to practice her own religion in Scotland, and for that purpose sent with her a chaplain named John Lering who, however, shortly after his arrival, became a Calvinist.

Hooke studied at Wadham College during the Protectorate where he became one of a tightly knit group of ardent Royalists centred around John Wilkins.

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

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.

" Though raised a pagan, she became an ardent Christian in her teenage years, having received a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ, in which the Blessed Virgin gave Catherine to Jesus in mystical marriage.

Mordell had long maintained links with CARDE and became one of Bull's ardent supporters, in spite of what other professors saw as " second-rate attempts at manipulation " and that " always supported Bull's work … I think sometimes he got pretty tired of supporting Bull.

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

Some of Leavitt's descendants became ardent abolitionists, including Joshua Leavitt and his cousin Roger Hooker Leavitt, who operated an Underground Railroad station in Charlemont, Massachusetts.

Walser and others became ardent converts of spiritualism, and he spent $ 40, 000 laying out a camp meeting ground of thirteen acres, with twenty cottages, and auditorium seating 800 people, and grounds landscaped with catalpa trees.

Possibly because of the dual upbringing, he became later an ardent proponent of radically better relations between the Churches.

He was also a lecturer on physiology at the Lane Theological Seminary, and at the time of the Lane Seminary debates ( February 1834 ) between the pro-slavery and the anti-slavery students, and the subsequent withdrawal of the latter, he became an ardent abolitionist.

An ardent Catholic and rigidly autocratic prince, Philip pursued an aggressive political, economic and religious policy toward the Dutch, resulting in a Dutch rebellion shortly after he became king.

In view of the increasing confusion in the Church, however, he became one of the most ardent advocates of the appeal to a general council.

At the University of Göttingen, he received a thorough philological training under Heyne and became an admirer and friend of Bürger, with whom he was engaged in an ardent study of Dante, Petrarch and Shakespeare.

Griesbach was educated at Frankfurt, and at the universities of Tübingen, Leipzig and Halle, where he became one of J. S. Semler's most ardent disciples.

Orsini was encouraged to become a priest, but he abandoned that lifestyle and became an ardent liberal, joining the Giovane Italia, a society founded by Giuseppe Mazzini.

Under the impact of a meeting with Otto Hahn ( who has been called the " father of nuclear chemistry ") in July 1954, Niemöller became an ardent pacifist and campaigner for nuclear disarmament.

Most Barnburners returned to the Democratic party, and the Free Soil Party became dominated by ardent anti-slavery leaders.

There he embraced extravagant ultramontane sentiments, and became an ardent champion of Catholicism.

After the Revolution, he became an ardent defender of their Order, increasingly associating the spirit of the Revolution with the Jesuits ' traditional enemies, the Jansenists.

In 1900 he moved to San Diego and became a prominent member and supporter of the Theosophical community Lomaland, which was being developed on Point Loma by Katherine Tingley.

Although he eventually became a supporter of the claims of Lambert, he initially gave his support to Arnulf.

Theodore Roosevelt became an important supporter of Hughes.

David later became an active supporter of the French Revolution and friend of Maximilien Robespierre ( 1758 – 1794 ), and was effectively a dictator of the arts under the French Republic.

Sorel became a supporter of reactionary Maurrassian nationalism beginning in 1909 that influenced his works.

From this time, Barnave became a counselor and supporter of the royal family.

Gardner would also join the Historical Association, being elected Co-President of its Bournemouth and Christchurch branch in June 1944, following which he became a vocal supporter for the construction of a local museum for the Christchurch borough.

The IALA became a major supporter of mainstream American linguistics, funding, for example, numerous studies by Sapir, Collinson, and Morris Swadesh in the 1930s and 1940s.

Adams thus became Congress ' primary supporter of what would become the Smithsonian Institution.

After experiencing a religious conversion, he became a minister, hymn-writer, and later a prominent supporter of the abolition of slavery.

He became an eminent supporter of the FLN in the Algerian War and was one of the signatories of the Manifeste des 121.

Innocent benefited from the resolution of his long-standing English problem, but John probably gained more, as Innocent became a firm supporter of John for the rest of his reign, backing him in both domestic and continental policy issues.

In his later years he became critical of Israel and a supporter of the Palestinian cause.

He became the foremost supporter of the New Economic Policy ( NEP ), to which he was to tie his political fortunes.

He became a supporter of the Republican forces of the Spanish Civil War and then became active in the Council on African Affairs ( CAA ).

His efforts to undo the mischief wrought in Rome by the long schism were almost entirely neutralized by a quarrel with his erstwhile supporter, Louis VII of France over the candidate for archbishop of Bourges, in the course of which that kingdom was laid under an interdict to press for the papal candidate, and by a struggle with the town of Tivoli in which he became involved.

As a staunch supporter of Joseph Stalin, he became known as " Red Count " or " Comrade Count " and his work was acknowledged to be classics of the Soviet literature.

One of Herleva's brothers, Walter, became a supporter and protector of William during his minority.

Taky Kimura became the first Assistant Instructor Bruce ever had and has continued to be Bruce ’ s staunch supporter, devoting endless hours to preserving his art and philosophy throughout the 30 years since Bruce ’ s passing.

He was David Soslan, an Alan prince, to whom the 18th-century Georgian scholar Prince Vakhushti ascribes descent from the early 11th-century Georgian king George I. David, a capable military commander, became Tamar's major supporter and was instrumental in defeating the rebellious nobles rallied behind Yuri.

Wesendonck became a supporter of Wagner and bankrolled the composer for several years.

Under the Harrisons the paper became a resolute supporter of the Democratic Party, and was the only local newspaper to support the Pullman strikers in the mid-1890s.

Although Auda did at first join the Arab Revolt for monetary reasons, he quickly became a steadfast supporter of Arab independence.